leadership, grandparenting

In our world, everything rises and falls on leadership
Your ability to lead will determine who you influence and what you are able to accomplish. If you want to be a great influencer, you can’t afford to be an average leader.

Communicate with your grandchild
A pack for grandparents with ideas on talking to children in everyday situations, sharing books together and enjoying nursery rhymes and music.

communication

Communication Quotation
The problem with communication ... is the illusion that it has been accomplished

Tips On Public Speaking; The Seven Secrets You Need to Know
With the information age upon us, and immense knowledge being constantly shared, people are being asked more frequently to address public audiences. The need to define study tips on public speaking is rapidly growing. More and more people are standing in front of their audiences with nothing to say, or it seems that way. These following tips on public speaking will show you why it is important to target your message to an audience that will enjoy it.

The Little Things

It really is the little things

That mean the most of all…

The “let me help you with that” things

That may seem very small

The “I’ll be glad to do it” things

That make your cares much lighter,

The “laugh with me, it’s funny” things

That make your outlook brighter…

Thought for the day, Communication, Pivotal Personal best, Teaching tools, Teenagers, meetings, success, public speaking

The Thought for the Day went out today. Read it online here.

I have updated the Communication pages at Pivotal Points, with two new articles:

A Contrarian Leadership Guide - Insights for Success at Work and at Home

Email Signatures - Nonprofits' Most Missed Marketing Tool

and success tips in communication and meetings. The book review is Conquer Your Email Overload: Superb Tips and Tricks for Busy People (Paperback) by Debbie Mayo-Smith.


Pivotal Personal Best - the ezine has now also gone out to subscribers. You can read it online here.


Blogs updates from today:

Free Resources: Teaching Tools from the National Air and Space Museum

Strengthen your Relationship With Your Teen

Running Effective Meetings

Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes

This last is a great video ...

Also added a new quotation to the Squidoo pages on creating a speech to have impact.

The Power of Your Speech, Libraries, Heroes, Comics, Donald Trump, Commitment, change

The Power of Your Speech
Language expert Wilfred Funk was one of the first to study highly successful men and women to determine what they have in common. What he discovered was that they all have the ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
http://pivotalpublicspeaking.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/the-power-of-your-speech/

Libraries and Immersive Learning in 3D Virtual Environments
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science, at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, is pleased to offer a new non-credit, continuing education course this fall. http://liblogger.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/libraries-and-immersive-learning-in-3d-virtual-environments/

Heroes
An inspirational read
http://pivotalpersonalbest.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/heroes/

Comics - trash or treasure?
Comics were seen during my childhood as trash - not serious reading or art at all. Now in the libraries where I work and live, "graphic novels" are all the buzz and comics are being taken seriously again.
http://communicationedge.blogspot.com/2007/09/comics-trash-or-treasure.html

Six Sanity-Saving Scenarios to Turn a Massive Breakdown into a Powerful Business Breakthrough
I’ve learned over the years that a breakdown means that something very valuable is happening – I have new insight into how I can improve my process, my attitude, or my belief so that problem never happens again.
Let’s look at a few examples of how breakdowns can occur in our business or life.
http://groworganisation.blogspot.com/2007/09/six-sanity-saving-scenarios-to-turn.html

Ten Questions with Donald Trump
http://pivotalpersonalbest.blogspot.com/2007/09/ten-questions-with-donald-trump.html


What are you committed to?
What do you think of when you hear the word commitment?
http://pivotalbusinesssuccess.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-are-you-committed-to.html

Change or die
What if you were given that choice? For real. What if it weren't just the hyperbolic rhetoric that conflates corporate performance with life and death?
http://pivotalchangeinnovationandcreativity.blogspot.com/2007/09/change-or-die.html

Communication quotation, tongue twisters, language power, powerpoint video

A new quote about the power of language

http://communicationedge.blogspot.com/2007/06/language-exerts-hidden-power-like-moon.html


Teaching communication? Here's an activity...

http://ednewsbytes.blogspot.com/2007/06/design-satellite.html

And remember tongue twisters? Here's a few that I learnt years ago and a link to some more ...

http://pivotalpublicspeaking.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/just-for-fun-tongue-twisters/


Today's Video - How not to make a powerpoint

I'm back from a fifteenth birthday dinner. Was great and he's a lovely big thing - learning (what am I saying - has learnt!) charm.

Speaking of communication, I have an interesting article on email communication for you ....

Are you kidding me? This is serious! Or, what psychologists have to say about writing e-mail

including ..." a list of writing tips for non-professionals, which I’d highly recommend for professionals and non-professionals alike... One of his most unusual suggestions is to “speak what you write” — literally, to read your writing out loud before publishing, whether in a blog post or just an e-mail to friends.....Read on ...

and while we're on the subject of communication ....


Babies can 'see' language

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have shown that babies can tell when a person switches to a different language just by watching the speaker’s face.

Researchers showed infants videos of three bilingual speakers reciting sentences. After being trained to become comfortable with a speaker reciting a sentence in one language, babies aged 4 and 6 months spent more time looking at a speaker reciting a sentence in a different language — demonstrating that they could tell the difference.

Read on ...

and to grow your businss

"Your Front Line Business Guide Book"

Award winning author Brian Hazelgren once again puts his expertise into the hands of the Entrepreneur. In his first books “Your First Business Plan” and “The Big Book of Business Plans” Brian instructed his readers in writing winning business plans.

Now in “Tactical Entrepreneur” Brian discusses topics such as

• How to make it in the brutal world of business ownership
• Acquire the TACTICAL abilities needed to be successful
• Creating the FREEDOM needed to reach your goals
• Establishing Calculated Risks
• Learning from others mistakes
• Do you have what it takes?
• Targeting your market
• How to build a successful marketing plan
• Business Planning
• Plus Much More!

The book also contains worksheets, brainstorming techniques, the nine signs of an entrepreneur and a sample business plan. This book is a must for anyone who is just starting out or the seasoned professional who needs a refresher course.

get your own copy of Tactical Entrepreneur visit http://www.tacticalentrepreneur.com/?afid=2215

and on the library side ...

Building a library website on the pillars of Web 2.0

Here's a great explanation of what Web 2.0 actually is and how you can implement it in your library.

Read the whole article

Do you wish you were 15 again? I don't, but it's nice to mix with them occasionally!