management, speaking business

Selecting the Best Manager
When filling a management position, should you promote from within or hire an outsider? Our expert weighs the pros and cons.

Public Speaking Marketing - The One Hidden Secret To Growing Your Speaking Business
When I learned what top marketers knew and then simply applied it to my speaking business, my income literally TRIPLE the next year.

fathers and daughters, management in GE

Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters:

10 Secrets Every Father Should Know (Hardcover)

by Meg Meeker

The most important person in a young girl’s life? Her father. That’s right—and teen health expert Dr. Meg Meeker has the data and clinical experience to prove it.





Management Secrets From Inside GE
Here’s what it really takes to thrive at one of America’s most demanding—and profitable—companies

June 24

Hello

Love winter!! It's cold and fresh and we are having rain.

Here's a new slant on public speaking


A Short Guide to Public Speaking


and for your business or organisation, a classic ...

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t

and a new freebie for you to try ...

2nd June

The meeting was great - good to work with professionals who can see solutions to problems so quickly.

One thing I'm really pleased about is that we will have Surf Lifesavers to form the guard of honour for the international board. Our international president loves swimming and particularly the sea, so it will be a tribute to her as well.

This year is the year of the life saver, so it is doubly valuable.

There are also heaps of resources on surf lifesavers for education.

Surf's Up: a cross - curricula resource for primary schools
Surf's Up is a free teaching resource developed by the Surf Life Saving Australia, it provides students with an understanding of beach safety and surf awareness
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Also posted to the Pivotal Personal Best blog...

An innovation process and software framework
In a recent press release, Archstone consulting reports on its findings in a recent survey on innovation. According to their survey, over 70% of the firms they talked to were planning to increase investment in innovation, yet over 50% were dissatisfied with the results of their innovation initiatives to date. Only 5% claimed to have “a highly effective innovation process”.Clearly there’s a significant disconnect between these figures, and we believe one of the important reasons is that innovation is still so poorly defined from a process and systems perspective.
Check out the post here ...

and more on management ..

Blake Mouton Managerial Grid

And on the public speaking front...

Advice for speakers and presenters - 7 ways to turn a free gig into a financial windfall

Finally, today's Just for fun ...

From the Funny Sign Gallery

More Just for Fun

31st May

I've been busy today preparing for a meeting tomorrow with the hotel hosting our convention. Lots of cross-checking and detail.

I suppose we assume that bosses or leaders are, by definition, public speakers. Seems it's not necessarily the case.

Bosses scared of public speaking
MANY bosses say their most difficult job is not number crunching but speaking in public, a report reveals.

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Free eBook

Today's book is a freebie and it's an eBook. "Set your Goals and Implement Them" It has tips, strategies and quotations from experts in the field..

Click here to request your free copy

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and finally - a story for children - about beer - from a writer in residence. Read about it here.