No matter what type of business you run, or what kinds of setting you conduct your meetings in—be it formal or informal—meetings are an essential activity to keeping your business on target. Of course, simply mentioning the word “meeting” often brings about moans and groans. If this is the case, and it’s your job...
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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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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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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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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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Assembling teams in the workplace is a great way to make strides toward accomplishing a task. But teamwork can be as detrimental as it can be powerful if the team comes apart at the seams and everybody begins working on their own agendas. Here are 10 tips from your friends at Dale Carnegie Training...
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A bachelor friend of Dale Carnegie, about forty years old, became engaged, and his fiancé persuaded him to take some belated dancing lessons. “The Lord knows I needed dancing lessons,” confessed the friend, “for I danced just as I did when I first started twenty years ago. The first teacher I engaged probably told...
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