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Tips to Setting Goals – SMART Goals

  Filled in: People Skills  - October 12th, 2009

SMART Goals

Now it is time to set your goals, select your destination, chart your course, for a definite, and successful future. If haven’t set goals for yourself before, there is an excellent acronym that can help you. The acronym is SMART, and leads you setting SMART goals.

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How to Deal with Fear and Worry

  Filled in: Life, People Skills  - August 2nd, 2009

Studies have shown that all the things we worry about in life:

87% never happen
7% actually occur
6% you will have some influence over the outcome

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The 17 Powerless Phrases you must Remove from Your Vocabulary

  Filled in: People Skills  - July 29th, 2009

People Skills

This is a list of some of the most damaging words and phrases you can speak. These phrases appear to say one thing while they in fact reveal the emotions, feeling and prejudices of the speaker. Eliminate them from your own vocabulary because they detract from your credibility.

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The 12 Most Powerful Words You Can Use

  Filled in: People Skills  - July 25th, 2009

The 12 Most Powerful Words You Can Use

A study at the University of California shoed the most persuasive words in spoken language are:

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The 5 Golden Rules for Listening

  Filled in: People Skills  - July 14th, 2009

People Skills For Life

1. Use ‘Active listening’

‘Active listening’ is a remarkable way of encouring others to keep talking and to be sure you understand what hey are saying to you.

To use ‘active listening’ you simply paraphrase what a person says and feed it back to them, starting with the word ‘you;.

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