- Rethinking New Employee Orientation
- Oct 2, 2012
- All organizations have some kind of employee orientation program, but few put much thought into it. Smart organizations are taking this process much more seriously to ensure that employees have a much deeper understanding of how the organization works and their role in it.
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- Welcome to the Party: Promotion and Personal Branding via Social Media
- Sep 19, 2012
- Erik Deckers and Kyle Lacy explain the importance of self-promotion and getting your own personal branding message across in an effort to find a job (or a better job).
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- Managing a Simple Mailing List in PHP and MySQL
- Aug 16, 2012
- This chapter provides the first of several hands-on, small projects designed to pull together your PHP and MySQL knowledge. In this chapter, you learn how to create a managed distribution list that you can use to send out newsletters or anything else to a list of email addresses in a database.
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- Focusing Your Effort for Wider Work Success
- Jul 18, 2012
- Is your focus stretched in multiple directions right now? Probably. We're all busily connecting to everyone else by multiple technological means, but does all that communication translate to accomplishing productive work? Doubtful. Pat Brans details how to concentrate your attention to set yourself up for success.
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- Communicating with Other LinkedIn Members
- May 4, 2012
- In this lesson, you learn about the LinkedIn network and the many ways to communicate with other LinkedIn members.
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- Rule 1 of Parenting: Relax
- Apr 11, 2012
- Richard Templar explains that all the best parents have one key thing in common. They’re relaxed about it.
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- Spend an Hour, Save a Week: Tracking What You Do
- Apr 9, 2012
- Sometimes we learn important things in an unexpected setting. On a four-hour hike in the mountain with friends, Pat Brans learned a healthy, easy, and life-changing technique that anyone can use.
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- Stedman Graham's Nine-Step Process to to Identity: Your Passport to Success
- Feb 22, 2012
- Stedman Graham shares a process for developing your identity, improving your life, and becoming successful through his nine-step success process to identity: your passport to success.
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- Choosing to Perform Well
- May 23, 2011
- How important is choice in the performance of a task? Pat Brans emphasizes that choice plays a crucial role in getting the best results from any human being, including yourself. Whether you want to encourage your employees, or you need to stop procrastinating and finish a task you've set for yourself, choice is actually more important than reward as a motivator.
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- Public Speaking: We Promise You Won't Die
- Feb 7, 2011
- Erik Deckers and Kyle Lacy cover everything you need to know about public speaking, from learning how not to burst into flames from nervousness to identifying speaking opportunities to giving your talk.
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- What To Expect When You Attend Your First Networking Meeting
- Dec 15, 2010
- It doesn't matter how outgoing you are, being thrown into a room full of people you've never met can be intimidating. But it won't kill you, and it's relatively painless. Here is a basic idea of what to expect and how you can have an effective first networking meeting.
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- The Rules of Life: Rule 2 -- You'll Get Older But Not Necessarily Wiser
- Nov 17, 2010
- Be kind to yourself when you do muck things up. Be forgiving, and accept that it's all part of that growing older but no wiser routine.
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- The Rules of Life: Rule 1 -- Keep It Under Your Hat
- Nov 16, 2010
- You are about to embark on a life-changing adventure, possibly, if you choose to accept your mission. You are about to discover ways to become positive, happy, and successful in everything you do. So there's no need to say anything to anybody about it. Keep quiet. No one likes a smart arse. That's it. First Rule: Keep It Under Your Hat.
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- Introduction to The Rules of Life: A Personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life
- Nov 15, 2010
- Richard Templar explains that if we follow a few basic "Rules of Life," we tend to get more done, shrug off adversity more easily, get more out of life, and spread a little happiness around us as we go.
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- Seven Ways to Increase Your Chance of Getting Found on LinkedIn
- Sep 13, 2010
- Learn the secrets to creating a profile that appears in search engine results, brand yourself as an expert on LinkedIn using LinkedIn Answers and LinkedIn Groups, stay on your connections’ radar, and maximize your LinkedIn settings for findability
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- Create a Personally, Professionally, and Financially Rewarding Career Doing What You Love
- Mar 24, 2010
- With the downturn in the economy, the elimination of jobs, and the increased desire for work-life balance, people are looking for more stability, greater fulfillment, and increased satisfaction from work. Are you?
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- The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing: Most People Aim for the Wrong Target
- Jan 14, 2010
- Take the first steps in writing-for-results by learning to describe the characteristics of strong writing.
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- Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader
- Nov 17, 2009
- Curtis Faith introduces you to the concepts in his book, which teach you how to incorporate expert-level gut instinct in your trading.
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- Touchdown!: Achieving Your Greatness on the Playing Field of Business (and Life)
- Jun 4, 2009
- What if you had just one play in you, one opportunity? What would it be? Think about it in light of your career, your health, your family and friends. Here is your starting point.
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- Managing Emotions to Learn from Failure
- Apr 8, 2009
- You will have obstacles, setbacks, and outright failures. Learn how to be better prepared not only to expect to deal with some failure, but to be better able to deal with it when it comes, and to actually derive some good from it.
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