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<title>Joan Curtis - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dr. Curtis has done leadership consulting for over 20 years.  Her new book, Managing Sticky Situations at Work will be released in May 2009 by Praeger Press. This book debuts the Say It Just Right Communication Model.

She's an expert in all areas of communication, particularly, dealing with conflict, public speaking, team management, interviewing.]]></description>
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<title>Social Savvy Means Time Management</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How can you budget for social media time? People keep asking me how they can add social media to their already packed daily schedule. They fear that employees will be using their work time to Tweet about personal things or to talk to their friends on Facebook. One of the biggest complaints I hear from salespeople as well as CEO's relates to time. Here are some time-saving tips!]]></description>
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<title>Tips to Open the Floodgates With Social Media</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:50:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How can businesses open the floodgates? Is there a strategy for involving customers in your business decisions? Tannebaum and Schmidt (1970) created a model based on participation and authority, theorizing that as you give more participation to groups in the decision-making process, you give up authority or control. This model presents a new way to think about how much customer involvement you want and how the social media might play a role in that involvement. It gives us some tips for developing a strategy for opening the floodgates.]]></description>
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<title>5 Tips to Use Social Media to Sell Without Selling</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:47:35 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What is your Social Media IQ? We all know about traditional means to market our products. We know about advertising, branding, finding our niche. What we do not yet understand is the power of the social media in all this. The point of it all is to sell without appearing to sell. Here are some tips for using the social media to help you sell without "selling."]]></description>
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<title>Communication - &quot;It's Complicated&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:23:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many of us place ourselves at the forefront of the conversation and forget the other person. When we meet someone at a networking event, what do we often do? Do we listen when the other people tell us their passions? Or, do we immediately jump in with our solutions to their problems? Challenge yourself to make communication less about you and more about them.]]></description>
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<title>How to Say Yes When the Answer Is No</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:36:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many of us who have worked in customer relations understand the importance of making the customer feel good. We do everything we can to help them get answers to their questions. Some of us, however, do not understand this basic premise in good customer relations. Some of us need to learn how to say yes when the answer is no. Here are some additional tips to enable you to say yes, when the answer is no.]]></description>
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<title>How to Go Public and Stay Private</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:38:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How can you use the social media and still maintain your privacy? Where people make mistakes is they either share nothing personal, not even an up-to-date photo, or they share too much too quickly. These same mistakes could kill a conversation face-to-face. So, how do you go public and stay private? Here are some tips to help you understand what to share and how much.]]></description>
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<title>How to Sell and Never Leave Your Desk</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:20:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Don't you wish you could do your job and not have to travel all over the country or world? Don't you wish you could let people know about your products and services without going to endless networking meetings? Here are some uses of the social media that can help you reach that magical place where you can sell without having to leave your office.]]></description>
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<title>How to Use Social Media and Save Time</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:47:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most common complaints we hear from our clients about the social media is that it eats up time. They fear that once their employees get on the sites, they will no longer have time to do their jobs. There's no question that it can will eat up your day; but will it waste time? How can we incorporate it into our day and save time? Here are five tips.]]></description>
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<title>How to Deal With Our Changing World</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:48:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Why are we so resistant to change? As we watch the changing world swirl by us, instead of complaining that we cannot keep up or hiding in our shell, we need to get on board. Let's look at the steps of change: awareness, understanding, acceptance and change.]]></description>
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<title>What is Our Universal Language?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:06:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What is our universal language?. Let's imagine for a moment when we communicate sadness to someone who does not speak our language. When they see our tears or when they hear the catch in our voice, what do they understand? Here are a few tips to help you improve your communication.]]></description>
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<title>What Michael Scott Teaches Us About Communication</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:10:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How many of you watch The Office? If you're like me, you may be addicted to it. The Office is a parody on communication. As you laugh at Michael Scott and the crazy behavior depicted on the sitcom, think about this question. How many of us have actually experienced similar shenanigans in our own offices?]]></description>
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<title>Handling Difficult Conversations</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:51:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How do you respond to difficult conversations? Do you hide from them? Do you push your way through them like a bull in a china shop? There are two types of difficult conversations: the ones where we must tell someone something he or she does not want to hear and the ones where we are hearing something we don't want to hear. This article will share some tips for handling them both.]]></description>
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<title>Social Networks - A Place to Self-Promote?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 06:35:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How many of you like to get spammed? Do you enjoy getting those unwanted emails in your inbox? Do you enjoy receiving the automated voice mails on your phone telling you about the latest, greatest whatever? Do you enjoy getting those faxes about low cost health care or cheap vacations in the Caribbean? ]]></description>
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<title>Is Twitter Noise Or a Business Tool?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:04:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is Twitter a business tool? Recently, this question appeared in a LinkedIn discussion group. It received lots of attention and many interesting comments. The majority of people saw Twitter as a business tool. A few said it's just noise...]]></description>
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<title>When Anger Gets the Best of Us</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:14:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How do you express your anger? I once had a woman in one of my workshops who said, "I never get angry." Can you imagine that? How can we go through life and never feel anger? ]]></description>
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<title>How Poor Communication Crashes Airplanes</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:25:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When I teach workshops related to communication and teams, I often hear people say, I don't care what the other person thinks. We become angry or annoyed with the other person and we give up. It takes more energy than most of us give it. Those of us, who lead others, must take communication seriously. Good, effective communication takes practice and a lot of it.]]></description>
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<title>Facebook Vs Twitter in Business</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:52:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What is the value of Facebook over Twitter? Is there a difference? When do you use one or the other or both? The ultimate decision about which social network to use lies with your company culture, goals and target customer. Nonetheless, it's important to recognize that you cannot choose "none of the above" if you want to survive the new digital economy.]]></description>
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<title>How to Tell People Things They Don't Want to Hear</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:49:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How do we tell people things they do not wish to hear? Being able to say it just right, when you must tell people something they don't want to hear, takes practice and preparation. ]]></description>
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<title>Management and Leadership - A Continuum of Teach and Release</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:06:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For years, I've studied management and leadership theories. Everyone says basically the same thing. Managers manage and leaders lead. Everyone wants to do the same thing-lead and not manage. It occurred to me that good leaders are also good managers. In other words, it's not a question of either managing or leading. It's a question of doing both and doing them at the right time, knowing when to manage and knowing when to lead. Here's how good management and good leadership work in tandem with the Teach and Release Model.]]></description>
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<title>Sticky E-Situations</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:43:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We zip off more and more emails and texts than ever before. Most of us don't need statistics to tell us how much we depend on email to conduct our daily businesses. Before we step back and examine the sticky situations that evolve from the email explosion, we must look at when it is appropriate to email and when another form of communication serves us better. In addition to examining email in this fashion, we must also consider Instant Messages (IM's), text messaging, and all other forms of e-communication.]]></description>
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<title>Etiquette Tips For the Interview</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:42:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How are we supposed to behave during an interview? If we assume that you know the givens: report to the interview on time, wear your best "professional" clothes, bring extra copies of your rsum, don't prop your elbows on the interviewer's desk and do answer all questions with more than a "yes or no." Beyond these givens, here are some tips.]]></description>
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<title>How Powerful is Your Twitter Profile?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:35:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What does your Twitter profile say about you? Would a potential customer look at your profile and say, "I want to follow that person"? Here are some tips you can use to help beef up your Twitter profile.]]></description>
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<title>Sticky Situations With Subordinates</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3107738</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:56:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Employees don't leave jobs, they leave managers.  If you have a bad, frustrating boss, you might leave your job even if it is a good job.  With the costs for hiring and training new people soaring each year, organizations are looking for ways to retain employees.  If you've ever had a job where you said, "I really love my job, but my boss is driving me crazy," then you understand how important it is for bosses to learn how to deal with sticky situations involving subordinates.]]></description>
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<title>The Fear of Saying it Just Right</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:27:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Why are we so afraid to say what we need to say - when we need to say it?  Why do we let things go on so long? If you have a sticky situation, don't let it get stickier.  Instead, gather up your courage and confront it with compassion and curiosity.  Listen to the other person's point of view. ]]></description>
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<title>Managing Sticky Situations in the Classroom</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2941480</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:52:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fall is in the air and the school doors are about to open. For many, this year offers some unique challenges. Many schools are facing budget cuts and some personnel cuts. Another issue that today's schools face is parent and teacher conflicts. Many parents expect their children to get a certain level of attention. What can you do if you find yourself confronted with these kinds of sticky situations?]]></description>
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<title>Sticky Situations and Nonverbal Cues</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:22:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In today's world, where most of us multi-task our way through life, stopping to really hear another person seems impossible.  As we examine communication, you will see how important it is to stop doing whatever it is you are doing, to set your antenna in the direction of the speaker, and to assign your thinking mind the job of listening.  No wonder we encounter so many sticky communication problems.]]></description>
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<title>Six Tips to Manage Sticky Situations at Work</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2729460</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:41:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When your boss asks you to do something that you feel is unethical, what do you do? If you spot two co-workers having an intimate lunch, what do you do? How do you handle telling a long-time employee that his job has been eliminated? ]]></description>
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<title>How Personality Affects How You Handle Sticky Situations and Say it Just Right</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:58:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To better understand the Say It Just Right (SIJR) Model, since people are different, you must know more about the people you are "saying it" to before you apply it to sticky situations.  These differences require that we not only understand what to say and how to say it, but also to whom we are saying it.]]></description>
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<title>Social Media and Relationships</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:29:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Whenever you read anything pertaining to social media, you'll read about relationships. On Facebook you can only invite your "friends." LinkedIn will not allow you to connect with people you do not know. Twitter gives you more freedom; you can follow anyone you want, but they may not follow you back. It's all about building and sustaining relationships. All this leads me to think about the importance of relationship in social media.]]></description>
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<title>What is it You Do?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:45:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a coach the main problem I encounter with my clients is coming to grips with what they do and why they do it. Most of us know what we do but to say it in a way that engages people is another thing entirely. Here are some tips I've learned about developing your quick, elevator speech in an engaging manner.]]></description>
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<title>Sticky Situations With Clients</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:22:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A customer breaks his word, chews out someone on your staff or keeps calling you in the middle of the night.  What do you do?  Do you shrug it off, remembering the customer is always right?  When looking at sticky situations with clients, we sometimes decide to put our heads in the sand.  Even though we worry about losing valued clients when we face sticky situations with them, we have choices.]]></description>
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<title>The Um's Have It</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:33:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Even the most famous among us have struggled at one time or another with pesky filler words.  At first we may not have noticed them.  At first we thought we were as good a speaker as the next guy.  Suddenly, however, someone pointed out our frequent, "um" or "ah" or "basically".  It doesn't matter what the filler is, it's still a word that fills up an empty space in our communication.]]></description>
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<title>What Do You Know About Social Media?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 11:52:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What do you know about social media? Before you answer that question, let me tell you that you know more than you may think. Social media is simply another way for us to communicate and connect with one another. If you are a smart communicator and understand the power of connections, you already know a lot about social media.]]></description>
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<title>You Are What You Wear</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 09:42:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How do you tell someone what not to wear? When it comes to looking professional, many factors come into play. Our appearance tells a lot about us; remember you are what you wear. What message do you want your appearance to say about you and your personality?]]></description>
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<title>Listening With Your Heart, Not Your Head</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:56:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What is the biggest communications challenge my clients face? The simple answer is listening; their heads get in the way. Often, the response I get tells me that my clients are not listening with their hearts, which requires a different kind of listening.]]></description>
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<title>Strong Meeting Management Means Strong Leadership</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2020924</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:16:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are your meetings productive or a huge waste of time? Here are tips for making your meetings more efficient and productive.]]></description>
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<title>How to Stay Cool When Speaking in Public</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:25:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This article will put that universal fear of public speaking in the proper perspective and give you some tips for turning the fear into positive energy. Understanding the paradox about fear and effectiveness, speakers can embrace their fear and use it to propel, rather than paralyze. Fear then becomes the energy, the enthusiasm, the spark, our friend.]]></description>
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<title>Conversations - When to Hold 'Em, When to Fold 'Em</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:06:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How many of us have walked into a room full of people and wanted to turn around and leave?  When I think about networking events, my heart freezes. Didn't our mothers teach us not to speak to strangers?  Yet, in this article we're going to examine how to talk to strangers.]]></description>
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<title>How to Give a Speech Without Notes</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:09:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you prepare and practice and leave your notes on the podium or in your pocket, you will discover that speech making is actually fun. Your brain loves the exercise and you will know that no matter what happens to that little note card, you will successfully deliver your speech by following these tips.]]></description>
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<title>No Punching, No Running - Communicate! How to Resolve Conflict</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:19:24 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What is the best way to handle conflict? Your mother told you not to hit anyone, and your dad said don't you dare run. When you enter the workforce and you face a conflict situation, what choices do you have? In real life, we cannot beat up our opponents. If we do, we might find ourselves in custody. Some of us do decide to "get even," which often isn't the best choice either. If we "turn tail and run," we kill our self-confidence.]]></description>
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<title>The Challenge of Leadership</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:54:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What does leading others mean? Most people who become leaders do so suddenly. Perhaps you were always "it" in the first grade. Becoming "it" means others see you as a leader.]]></description>
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<title>Speaking Up With Confidence</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:35:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The power of the vocal message is often forgotten. Adding power to your voice is as important as adding power to your visual and vocal message. Here are ten tips for adding credibility to your voice power.]]></description>
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<title>The Perils of PowerPoint</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:54:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As presenters, we are grateful for the technology PowerPoint offers us. Now, we must be diligent not to abuse it. Beware of the perils of PowerPoint! This simple guideline will propel your presentations to a new dynamic level.]]></description>
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<title>How to Engage Your Audience</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:43:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The premise of learning is experiencing and doing.  Participants come into a learning environment with the expectation that they will be engaged in a learning experience.  As public speakers, how do we engage the audience when there are obstacles, such as very large groups or when we are in a teleconference environment? Let's look at some tips for audience engagement that you can add to your bag of tricks.]]></description>
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<title>Turning a Group of Individuals into a Team</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:41:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When I became a team leader, I quickly learned that there was more to teams than I'd realized.  Although I had been on many teams, I had never realized what it took to manage a highly functional team.  People do not always respond the way we think should. By learning the team development process, you will learn how to turn a group of individuals into a team. ]]></description>
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<title>Should You or Shouldn't You - The Office Romance Dilemma</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:27:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Now that we no longer have a male-dominated workforce, we are facing new questions and dilemmas.  Perhaps the questions are not so new, but they have taken a new turn.  In the past, say 15 to 20 years ago, office romance of any kind was considered taboo.]]></description>
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<title>Women in the Workplace</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:15:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In today's workplace women have a unique role that has evolved over the last twenty years. In the past the "feminine" ability to nurture and to be empathetic were frowned upon or seen as weak.  Today both men and women enter the workplace with a totally new set of rules.  What are those rules and how did they evolve?]]></description>
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