Have you ever wondered why some teams complete goals efficiently while others fail? When certain necessary components are missing, a team can end up dragging out a process instead of completing a task. While there is no magic recipe for team success, there are certain values you can ensure are in place to give the...
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“The attitude and actions of the immediate supervisor can enhance employee engagement or can create an atmosphere where an employee becomes disengaged (MSW Research and Dale Carnegie Training).” It is often true that employees and turnover go hand-in-hand. For many companies here in North Dakota and across the United States, it is simply associated...
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If you act “as if” you are interested in your job, that bit of acting will tend to make your interest real. It will also tend to decrease your fatigue, your tensions, and your worries. Dale Carnegie once told the story of Harlan A. Howard, who used this piece of advice to completely alter...
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In his book, “How to Develop Self Confidence & Influence People by Public Speaking,” Dale Carnegie talks about Socrates, known as the “gadfly of Athens,” and who was one of the greatest philosophers the world has ever known. Socrates did something that only a handful of men in all history have been able to...
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Enthusiasm and knowledge are two integral aspects of a successful business presentation; however, a fear of public speaking often plays upon the nerves of many business professionals. What’s interesting, however, is research has shown that most audiences cannot determine whether a speaker is nervous during a business presentation. Use this to your advantage by...
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Dale Carnegie kept a folder in his private filing cabinet marked “FTD”—short for “Fool Things I Have Done.” In that folder he put written records of the foolish things he had been guilty of. Sometimes these memos were so personal and embarrassing that he would refrain from dictating them to his secretary, instead choosing...
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Social Media is still exploding in often unexplainable ways here in North Dakota and across the globe. There were more tweets than beards at the Oscars, and where would professional sports be without all those clever comments from the athletes and players? Every business owner and client alike carry the same tools of the...
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Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes. One of England’s most distinguished psychiatrists in Dale Carnegie’s day, J. A. Hadfield, says in his book The Psychology of Power, “The greater part of the fatigue from which we suffer is of mental origin; in fact exhaustion of purely...
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Dale Carnegie once took a course in short-story writing at New York University, and during that course the editor of a leading magazine talked to his class. The editor said he could pick up any one of the dozens of stories that drifted across his desk every day and after reading a few paragraphs,...
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There are all different types of clients in the business world. Some know exactly what they want and how they want it while others do not. No matter what, your job is to service the needs and wants of your clients and good communication skills are essential. With that in mind, here are five tips...
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