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Studies show that many people have more fear of public speaking than of dying. That's huge. Whether you're giving your first presentation or your 100th, these tips will help you give less fearful, more powerful presentations.
Step 1
Plan, Prepare, and Practice.
The first step is to plan your verbal presentation - what you're going to say. When giving a presentation, you should always talk about something you know - something in which you are an expert. Credibility is important to...
The Recruitment Process that Succeeds
Research shows that traditional hiring practices are at best only ten percent effective in determining future job performance. Behavioral interviewing is fifty-five percent effective. (Source: Quintessential Careers)
Take these seven steps companies to ensure hiring the best of your job applicants and retaining them.
Step 1. Benchmark the Job.
Gather a team for a Job Benchmarking session to determine the Key Accountabilities required by the position.
People who recruit and hire...
Job Analysis and Design Tips
Does your job description analysis assure you of hiring and retaining superior performers? Your employees may be doing the tasks required by the job, but are they performing those tasks the way they need to be done; and does the job motivate them by rewarding their values?
The typical job description analysis looks only at what duties the job involves; it doesn't go deeper to see if a person is a good match for the job. You need to look at the who, how, and why as well as the what when...
Hiring Procedures: Avoid These 7 Big Mistakes
Most recruiters will admit they base much of a hiring decision on the job interview. Yet a Michigan State University study showed the job interview is only 14% accurate. Other research shows traditional hiring procedures are just 10% accurate.
Are you making these seven blunders?
Hiring employees based primarily on their job interview
One of my favorite quotes is from Stanley J. Randall who said, "The closest to perfection a person comes is when he fills out a job application."...
How to Find Your Passion
We hear a lot these days about how to find your passion and follow your bliss. Its easy to find your passion. You do it by understanding your values, which determine your attitudes and how you value (positive) or judge (negative) the issues, situations, and people in your life.
Thomas Leonard, the founder of CoachU and Coachville, once said that when were feeling satisfied our needs are being met and when were feeling fulfilled our values are being met. When you align your life around...
A Leadership Development Program to Master Five Crucial Skills
Leadership is kind of like being pregnant. You cant be a little bit of a leader. Youre either a leader or youre not.
A lot has been written on what makes a good leader. Extensive research on proven leaders by Target Training International over a number of years identified five soft skills leaders all have in common. Excellence in leadership includes mastering these skills:
Interpersonal skills
Influencing others
Goal achievement
Personal accountability...
A Driver Risk Assessment Is Your Best Safety Tool
Joe Driver wants a job with your company. He looks good on paper, has the skills and requirements needed, and has a pretty good safety record. So you hire him. Then he causes an accident that costs your company $3-million dollars.
How could this happen? Where did we go wrong? What could we have done differently?
Im glad you asked.
Michigan State University did a study that concluded, The typical interviewing process used by most companies is at best only 14% effective in...
Why People Feel the Way They Do
Have you ever wondered why some people seem driven to make a lot of money while others honestly seem to be satisfied with just getting by?
Have you known people who do so much for others they become enablers and you think thats not a good thing? Or do you know people who seem so immersed in their own needs they dont do enough to help others?
If another persons beliefs and attitudes are diametrically opposed to yours, youll have problems relating to that person and may have serious...
Stop Aggressive Driving Before it Starts
Larry Bossidy, Chairman and CEO of Honeywell International, Inc. says, I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
In the transportation industry, nothing can be more important than hiring safe, reliable drivers. Here are five steps your transportation company can take to be sure you will hire the best of your driver applicants and increase the ability to retain them.
Step 1. Gather...
I Need Help Deciding What Career to Choose
One of our clients owns her own business. She has to wear many hats, especially the sales and marketing cap. She loves marketing because its fun and creative, but she hates selling. We recently discovered why.
Before coaching clients, I have them do two assessments. One shows their behavioral style, the other measures their values/attitudes.
A lot of research has been done on top sales performers. The vast majority of them have a pattern thats high in the I (Influencing) and D...
Behavior Based Safety - The Missing Step that Ensures Success
Behavior Based Safety is a term for programs based on using behavior modification techniques on employees to instill and encourage safe behavior on the job. Its goal is to prevent workplace accidents by having people at all levels of an organization make safety in the workplace a top priority.
Employees responsible for keeping the job environment safe are trained in safety procedures then observe their fellow workers to monitor, report, and correct unsafe behavior.
Proponents say it...
Executive Leadership Skills - Leadership Quotes
Are leaders born or made? Most people would say both part nature, part nurture. Great leaders have innate qualities of integrity, humility, fairness, vision, and determination. And they have the training and experience to lead with greatness.
There are many well known exceptional leaders in all fields of endeavor. There are also some great ones who arent well known outside their own communities. I asked a number of such people what makes a good leader. Here are the remaining answers...
Interpersonal Conflict - Resolving Conflict by Understanding Personal Values
The presidents of two companies have opposite personal values. One of them is high in the Utilitarian value (passion for money and what is useful) and low in the Social value. The other CEO is high in the Social value (passion for service to others) and low in the Utilitarian value.
These two men were participants at different times in executive leadership coaching sessions, during which the first president said what he was most proud of doing for his company is that he never let employees...
Leadership Qualities - Characteristics of Leadership
One of the best books on leadership is Good to Great by Jim Collins. Collins researched a number of companies that were able to sustain outstanding growth over a period of 15 years while their competitors grew moderately, stayed flat, or lost money.
In all cases, the CEOs of those companies were men with humility and small egos who put the organizations needs above their own. They took the blame when things went wrong and gave credit to others when things went right. Collins calls these...
Truck Driver Safety - Behavior Plays a Vital Role
Hiring the wrong truck drivers can be disastrous. Hiring the right ones can save lives.
Naturally, safety training plays an important role in driver safety. Other factors may be even more significant according to a 1993 study conducted by Behavioral-Values Research Associates.
The research was conducted on maintenance workers between the ages of 22 and 64, who had been with (XYZ) Company for an average of 17.5 years. They were given four assessments that measured their behavioral...
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