You may have been selected by your executive to initiate and see through some change program in your organization Or you may have decided that the time has come to make your mark by dusting off the cobwebs in your workplace

The art of clear thinking is a learnable technique that will help you to sharpen your mind and allow you to cut through rhetoric and evaluate the reasoning (if any) behind the words To initiate this process, I want to show you six common fallacies, which blur accurate analysis of ideas

When projects do not make it to deadlines, there are many things going on behind the scenes As an accidental manager, you are tasked to keep the boat on an even keel with few resources and people

I don’t want to be taken in by the latest fad in leadership development, but neither do I want to be behind the times when it comes to leadership thinking Can you give me the inside track on where the experts are at with the research and what’s important for me to consider when it comes to leadership development today

I don’t want to be taken in by the latest fad in leadership development, but neither do I want to be behind the times when it comes to leadership thinking Can you give me the inside track on where the experts are at with the research and what’s important for me to consider when it comes to leadership development today

The Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) is a not-for-profit membership association dedicated to the profession of training, workplace learning and human resources development The CSTD offers awards to honor Canadian-developed stand-alone learning products and programs once a year

Passion Although developing proper eye-contact technique and learning how and when to pause are absolutely essential to acquiring "The Skills" - you're not finished yet The last element involves adding the emotional to the mechanical

The process that sets you on your way to speaking like the best speakers in the world, speakers who possess The Skills, goes like this: You find a target in your audience and you lock eyeballs You deliver a complete thought to that one person, and then you do the hardest part, you pause

In order to present at the top, in order to acquire The Skills, you must remember three rules that govern everything you do whilst presenting They're really quite simple, but sometimes it’s easy to forget the simple things, and these rules must remain in the forefront of your consciousness at all times

People who get paid well to speak all share one of two traits: either they're famous, or they own "The Skills" To be able to move people who don't know you as a celebrity of some sort, you must know how to keep your audience focused on you and your message, and how to keep them on the same page, on the same wavelength, every step of the way