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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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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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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It is early in the first quarter, and everyone’s economic policy is the same as the national one; sustaining economic growth and being fiscally wise is as critical to the every organization as it is to the Dutch economy itself. We are looking to grow. Yet even when growth is considered, we still have...
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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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