Success 365

Shirley Taylor

Description

How can I increase my effectiveness at work? How can I enhance my productivity? How can I improve my time management? How can I make better decisions? How can I become better at networking? How can I boost my memory? How can I become a better negotiator? How can I learn great interview skills? You'll find answers to all these questions and many more in Success 365. Success 365 contains an idea a day, one for each day of the year, that will give you all the tools and strategies you need to become more effective and successful. Compiled and edited by popular speaker, trainer and author, Shirley Taylor, Success 365 contains contributions from 9 leading experts. You will find lots of useful advice from email to networking, from decision making to networking, from confidence to negotiating, from productivity to business etiquette, and much more. All the tips in Success 365 are explained clearly with practical examples and advice you can apply immediately to help with your own work and career. Success 365 - a powerful collection of great tips and advice to help with your professional and personal development - every day of the year!

Sujets

• Employabilité, métiers et formations

Informations

• Publié par: MarshallCavendishM
• Date de parution: 06 novembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789814435826
• Langue: English

Extrait

SUCCESS 365

2013 Marshall Cavendish (International) Asia Pte Ltd
Illustrations by Edwin Ng
Edited by Shirley Taylor
Text copyright Shirley Taylor, Tim Wade, Alison Lester, Maria Kassova,
Tremaine du Preez, Heather Hansen, Pang Li Kin, Tina Altieri, David Goldwich
Published in 2013 by Marshall Cavendish Business
An imprint of Marshall Cavendish International
1 New Industrial Road, Singapore 536196
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National Library Board, Singapore Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Success 365 : 365 great ideas for personal development and achieving greater success / edited by Shirley Taylor. - Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Business, 2012.
p. cm.
ISBN : 978-981-4361-55-2 (pbk.) eISBN : 978 981 4435 82 6
1. Success in business - Miscellanea. I. Taylor, Shirley.
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Printed in Singapore by KWF Printing Pte Ltd
CONTENTS
Introduction
1 Reading is forgetting, doing is life changing
2 The confidence cycle
3 Use positive words to get positive results
4 Developing a strategy
5 Closing your pitch with conviction
6 Silence doubts with the voice of confidence
7 If you wouldn t say it, don t write it
8 Anglo versus Asian cultures
9 Everything is food for thought
10 Finding the right balance
11 Reporting progress increases productivity
12 Show your authentic self
13 Business class table manners
14 The positive role of negative thinking
15 Packing your networking bag
16 What s your decision-making style?
17 The best writers rewrite!
18 How to stand out after the interview
19 The problem with compromise
20 Choosing the positive meaning
21 Change your environment from negative to positive
22 The irresistible media message
23 Silence your inner critic
24 Dress for your future career
25 How to approach new people
26 Keep it simple, but not too simple
27 Accepting reality
28 Office etiquette
29 Dynamise your language
30 Focus on what you are good at
31 Turning the tables on the reporter
32 I like you because you re like me
33 Make sure readers can hear your voice in an email
34 Speak to people, not machines
35 Dealing with culture shock
36 You ll be more productive if you mind your language
37 Go on, bin it
38 Don t kill yourself
39 Switch off the pop-up and dodge the ding-dong
40 Prime them for action
41 Attitude is the key
42 Create impact with colour
43 Highlight how you are similar to your prospect
44 Your get out of jail free card in media interviews
45 Stop whining
46 Do you care what people think?
47 Slow down
48 Getting to know your audience
49 Embrace cultural differences
50 Do the things that failures don t like to do
51 You can never be too early
52 Stick old things together to make something new
53 Mirroring and matching
54 Have a giving attitude
55 Don t harrass with your handheld
56 Hierarchy in culture
57 Don t fake it - clear it
58 In the sales race, be a fast starter
59 Pay attention to the periphery
60 Personality and success
61 A practical coaching model for everyone
62 Achieving results from your writing
63 The power of gratitude
64 Following up and following through
65 Learn how to KISS in emails
66 It s OK to share information about your interests
67 To increase sales, think like those who do
68 How stylish is your writing?
69 Be creative at home
70 Make your audience the centre of attention
71 To never feel rejected in sales, reframe rejection
72 Choosing empowering self-talk
73 Ace that promotion
74 Surviving the hostile media interview
75 Play a different role
76 Smarten up your subject lines
77 The gift of appreciation and compliments
78 Interview the interviewer
79 Does your team have a beekeeper? It should
80 Put others first
81 Five steps to conflict resolution
82 Should you bring a team?
83 Advertise your goals and tasks to yourself
84 Mind your manners
85 The expert trap
86 Sales winners build relationships
87 Dining interviews
88 Say yes, and !
89 Build commitment
90 We all have basic needs
91 Change your job by changing your attitude
92 Resilience: the ultimate gift of confidence
93 Proof to make it perfect
94 Just go!
95 Winning ways to free speech
96 Sounding professional
97 Build trust from the ground up
98 Managing your mailbox
99 The power of scarcity
100 A formula for productive office relationships
101 Creating effective cross-cultural teams
102 You need a buddy to keep you accountable
103 How framing and fresh fruit affect your decision-making
104 Corporate gift giving
105 Change your patterns
106 Create interest with your voice
107 Make your presentation a visual feast
108 Taming the toughest decisions
109 Business class entertaining
110 Out-of-body experiences are useful
111 Time management tips you can actually use
112 How to fight back when under attack
113 Arrive armed for your media interview
114 Assessing your mindset
115 How emotionally intelligent are you?
116 Recognise your type
117 Is it time to change your mind?
118 Small talk made easy
119 Why is this problem good?
120 Tuning to new cultural frequencies
121 Let your body do the persuading
122 The 3F formula for assertiveness
123 How to ask
124 Communicating your great thinking
125 Increase positive possibility thinking
126 Characteristics of an effective workplace
127 Map out your thinking
128 Don t just listen, collaborate!
129 Using conventional wisdom isn t always wise
130 Identity in culture
131 Getting out of conversations
132 When writing, consider your reader
133 Sell the return on investment
134 Keep active, in email too!
135 Coaching is not mentoring
136 Don t get bundled!
137 Make it fun!
138 The sound of your brand
139 Accept yourself as you are
140 Is procrastination your pressure cooker?
141 Clarify, clarify, clarify!
142 Frame it your way
143 Successful teamwork starts with you
144 Self-worth grows through completion
145 Make your pitch memorable
146 The Disney creativity strategy
147 Do your vocal attributes hurt or help?
148 Touch up your email tone
149 Gender in culture
150 It s all about timing
151 Persuading with numbers and statistics
152 Uncertainty avoidance in culture
153 Choose your words with care
154 More than a card
155 Compete yourself silly
156 Practising with purpose for every pitch
157 Put email back in its box
158 Teamwork spells triumph
159 Imagine the opposite
160 Evaluating your level of cultural competence
161 Triage time-wasters
162 What s your body language saying?
163 Persuade with a story
164 Handling relationship challenges
165 Free association
166 Make connections that count
167 Decision-making across cultures
168 Introductions with style
169 Trim the fat from your information diet
170 Organise your information
171 Change their minds when they re against you
172 Are you working smarter or harder?
173 Show some respect
174 Offer anonymity
175 Motivating across cultures
176 Voicing a pitch
177 Activate your active listening skills
178 Celebrate and sleep for a productive brain
179 A smile is a universal greeting
180 Make a lasting impression
181 You re not just negotiating with him
182 Take something away
183 Many minds can make magic or mischief
184 Improve sales by qualifying prospects
185 Foster optimism, and confidence blossoms
186 Survive without slides
187 Telltale signs of a sparkling TV interview
188 Pretend it s your party
189 When to call it quits
190 White space and headings are good
191 Say the magic word
192 Have we forgotten how to use the phone?
193 Great thinking happens outside our comfort zone
194 Office gossip
195 Dump the data dumps
196 Anchors aweigh
197 It s always best to have a plan
198 Megaphone messages will help you win your pitch
199 To increase sales, don t ask can i help you?
200 A good first impression
201 Seven deadly sins of dealing with conflict
202 Confidence and your life
203 Work on relationships, not just transactions
204 Look beneath positions to uncover interests
205 Opportunities are everywhere
206 Telephone talent
207 Lead yourself, then others
208 Managing your priorities
209 Start with impact when you re pitching to win
210 Structure messages logically
211 Promoting your personal brand
212 Responsiveness is a virtue
213 The power of information
214 Be a problem solver (even if you don t have the solution)
215 Office party de