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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Across organizations, Dale Carnegie Training in the Netherlands is gearing up for spring and summer. With today’s continued focus on quality and responsibility; our courses are creating both opportunity and success on a continuing basis. Training is the number one tool for business economic development and it is done through continuing education. Paying attention...
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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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Dale Carnegie once told the story of Thelma Thompson, whose husband was stationed at an Army training camp near the Mojave Desert in California. She went to live there in order to be near him, but ended up hating the place. She had never been so miserable. Things became unbearable when her husband was...
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Mrs. E. K. Shields, of Saginaw, Michigan, was driven to despair—even to the brink of suicide. She had lost her husband and became very depressed and almost penniless. In an attempt to retake her life, she wrote to a former employer and got her old job back selling World Books to rural and town...
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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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How stressed are you really? It just does not matter what side of the ocean you are on. It is just as challenging in the States as it is here in the Netherlands. It affects every aspect of our personal and professional lives. We cannot outrun it and it touches everyone no matter who...
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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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Dale Carnegie used to relay a bit of sage advice from Elbert Hubbard that helped people develop the will to win in life. Carnegie said that if the average man or woman would only apply and live the wisdom contained in it, he or she would be happier and more prosperous. Here is Elbert’s...
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