Most people are aware that proper time management can help bring about positive results. It can be the difference between being a middle manager and a top executive, and the difference between having the time to manage one project, and ten projects. Still, however, most of us waste time daily and don’t develop effective...
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Eventually, most employees at any given company are going to need to deliver a presentation, or will be compelled to deliver a presentation to introduce a new idea or initiative. If you have a presentation in mind or one assigned to you, follow the six tips below from your friends at Dale Carnegie Benelux....
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Dale Carnegie once told the story of a New York speaker who was often complimented upon the firm texture of his sentences and the simple beauty of his language. During a conversation with him, the speaker told Carnegie the secret to his power to choose true and incisive words: Each time the speaker discovered...
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In the highly competitive business environment we have in the Netherlands, there is still intense competition here and around Europe and the rest of the world for both business and client acquisition. In this situation, there is just one factor that truly makes an organization rise to the top. That factor is the focus...
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There was once a boy in London working as a clerk in a dry-goods store. He had to get up at five o’clock, sweep out the store, and slave for fourteen hours a day. It was sheer drudgery and he despised it. After two years, he could stand it no longer, so he got...
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One of Dale Carnegie’s students, H.P. Howell, told him that when he was a member of the board of directors of U.S. Steel, the meetings of the board were often long-drawn-out affairs—many problems were discussed, but few decisions were made. The result: each member of the board had to carry home bundles of reports...
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A short article by Rod Minchin London for independent.ie talks about a remarkable occurrence in language skills. Here’s the article in its entirety, followed by a brief recap from your friends at Dale Carnegie Training Benelux: An Englishman has woken up after a stroke and started speaking fluent Welsh. Alun Morgan (81) was evacuated...
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(BPT) – Resume? Check. Cover letter? Check. Now you’re ready to begin that job search, right? Wrong. There may be some very important things you’re forgetting about that could dramatically enhance your job search. Nowadays, job searches involve much more than simply submitting hundreds of resumes and cover letters. According to a 2012 survey,...
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The key to winning friends and building relationships is actually very basic—simply become a friendlier person! Like Jeffrey Gitomer says, “All things being equal, people want to do business with their friends.” The ways that you can become a friendlier person are equally as easy to understand, but it takes a concerted effort to...
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In the Netherlands, leadership continues to adjust to a variety of global situations and the subsequent strategies that keep it moving forward. But how do the successful leaders and managers keep that momentum? It is not easy, but success depends solely on the people who are involved in support of the organizational mission and...
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