Powerpoint, Library, Creativity, publicity for non-profits, gestures in public speaking, gender in employment, boys and education, leadership, shynes

Doonesbury on Powerpoint
http://pivotalpublicspeaking.wordpress.com/2007/09/23/doonesbury-on-powerpoint/

No Cookies in the Library
New library video - classic Sesame Street
http://liblogger.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/no-cookies-in-the-library/


Book of the Week

Imagination Engineering: Your Toolkit for Business Creativity (Paperback)
by Paul Birch

One of the most difficult questions facing managers and executives today is how to manage creativity. They must constantly re-create the fundamental nature of their businesses. This book provides an excellent review of some of the best cutting edge creativity technologies, as well as many useful new tools.

http://pivotalpersonalbest.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/imagination-engineering-your-toolkit-for-business-creativity/

For Families ... My wonderful World

The “My Wonderful World” site is intended for young people, but anyone will benefit from the numerous interactive activities, quizzes, and such offered here. http://resourcesforfamilies.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/my-wonderful-world-macromedia-flash-player/

Publicity Strategy for your organisation
I have taken this strategy from a suggestion made by John Stanley, a conference speaker and retail consultant. He was writing to encourage publicity for libraries, but the idea would work just as well for many organisations. http://groworganisation.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/publicity-strategy-for-your-organisation-2/

Seven Key Ways to Gesture Effectively
Gestures are reflections of every speaker's individual personality. What's right for one speaker might not necessarily be righ for another ...
http://pivotalpublicspeaking.blogspot.com/2007/09/seven-key-ways-to-gesture-effectively.html

Exploiting the Gender Gap
By WARREN FARRELL

Carlsbad, Calif. — Nothing disturbs working women more than the statistics often mentioned on Labor Day showing that they are paid only 76 cents to men's dollar for the same work.
http://pivotalpersonalbest.blogspot.com/2007/09/exploiting-gender-gap.html

Boys learning
... If a boy prefers to sit on the floor, he can lower his desk to accommodate that preference as well. Stahler told me that the performance of her boys improved “200 percent” when she eliminated the requirement that students sit quietly in the classroom.
http://ednewsbytes.blogspot.com/2007/09/if-boy-prefers-to-sit-on-floor-he-can.html

Create That Winning Feeling
by Bob ProctorI believe we would all agree that having a winning feeling is prerequisite to achieving outstanding results
http://pivotalinspirationmotivation.blogspot.com/2007/09/create-that-winning-feeling.html

Three things to improve your writing rhythm
By Michele Pariza Wacek
As a professional copywriter, not only do I do a lot of writing but I also look at a lot of writing. One of the things I've noticed that sets the good/great writers from the so so is rhythm.
http://communicationedge.blogspot.com/2007/09/three-tips-to-improve-your-writing.html

Overcoming shyness to become an excellent leader
"Don't let timidity stop you from being an excellent leader. Get over your shyness and get your company on the path to success." http://groworganisation.blogspot.com/2007/09/overcoming-shyness-to-become-excellent.html

June 21

Posted a new Thought for the Day
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"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."
-- Hans Margolius
http://www.consultpivotal.com/thought.htm


“How we set up a non-profit by the seat of our pants”
Great ideas on using Web 2.0 to establish a non-profit organisation.

the latest Pivotal personal Best ezine has gone out. You can read it online and subscribe from the same page, or send me an email right now.

Interesting ...
People who experience emotional ambivalence – simultaneously feeling positive and negative emotions – are more creative than those who feel just happy or sad, or lack emotion at all, according to a new study.
Read on ...

I've updated the pages of lesson plans and resources for teachers. The list of pages updated is here.

I have been in the grip of anxiety attacks and somehow limited to doing routine things and not creating posts here.

They are better today (I've got used to having my husband away for a few days!!)_ so here's an update....


Found some useful sites for using digital cameras - in education
http://ednewsbytes.blogspot.com/2007/05/digital-cameras.html



I posted an article on management research

How do business academics know they are categorizing or measuring the best things to help us understand interesting phenomena? Scholars waste a lot of time and energy disparaging and defending various research methods. Yet the stakes are high for business academics to create theory that is intellectually rigorous, practically useful, and able to stand the tests of time.

Read it here...

And there's a public speaking success tip on creating an opening for your speech or presentation here

Today's reading suggestion ...



Dr. Robert Epstein's Creativity Games for Trainers arms you with 30 innovative, entertaining games guaranteed to enhance creativity in any organizational setting.

Use them to develop creativity workshops or to breathe life into any training sessions.

Each ready-to-use activity comes complete with lists of required and optional materials, time recommendations, reproducible handouts, follow-up discussion questions, and other essential information. You'll also find simple instructions for customizing exercises to different settings. . .data collection forms to help measure and track success. . .special ``challenge exercises'' that help participants develop their own games. . .and unique ``application exercises'' to assist users in promoting creativity on their own.

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