Life Skills – Page 4 – The Virtual Presenter

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The ‘Delegation Rule’

TheVP
posted on March 24, 2007December 1, 2011
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Do you want one secret for growing your career? Learn The Delegation Rule It’s tough enough for some of us to think of ourselves as ‘delegators.’ For some of us it’s perfectionism, and we have a hard time thinking someone else can do something as well as we can; for some

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Dealing with telemarketer/telesales – when you should listen

TheVP
posted on March 15, 2007December 1, 2011
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I don’t begrudge people who work over the telephone doing their jobs one little bit. In a past life as a sales person, I personally sold several million dollars worth of services over the phone in a professional capacity. That doesn’t mean, however, that a telemarketing call is always a

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Always solicit negatives

TheVP
posted on February 21, 2007December 1, 2011
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In a recent article in Marketing News, a publication of the American Marketing Association (yes, I’m a member), Marilyn Kennedy Moats makes a keen suggestion in her column about careers. Always solicit negatives. I think that there is wisdom in this idea and that it renders three personal

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How to avoid spam when posting your email address

TheVP
posted on February 14, 2007December 1, 2011
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I hope you know this, but if you EVER publish you’re email address somewhere on the Web, you WILL get loads of spam. Crooks send out “bots” and “crawlers” and various programs designed to harvest any and all email addresses, and once you’re on one list,

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Eye contact for the rest of us (you?)

TheVP
posted on February 14, 2007December 1, 2011
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A privilege of SkillPath trainers is the great price of auditing other SkillPath seminars…no charge (there is always your time, opportunity cost, and submitting an eval form for the betterment of all, but that’s another post). Yesterday I attended How to Become a Better Communicator,