THRIVE DYNAMICS: YOUR LIFE IN MOTION • A sultan had dreamed he had lost all his teeth.... 29b19112-d616-11e3-b5eb-22000ab82dd9-large.png (980×785) 10 Phrases Great Speakers Never Say. While it's really hard to immediately win over a crowd, it's really easy for a speaker to lose the room within the first few minutes of a presentation. To make sure you don't lose your audience, here's Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, serial entrepreneur and founder of TwitterCounter and The Next Web, with ten things you should never say during your presentations: 1.
"I'm jet-lagged/tired/hungover. " Not sure where this comes from, but one in five presentations at any conference starts with an excuse: "They only invited me yesterday," or, "I'm really tired from my trip," or some other lame excuse the audience really doesn't want to hear. We, the audience, just want to see you give it your best. 2. This is how many people start their talks. It isn't your responsibility to check the audio. But if you do speak into the microphone and get the impression it's not working, just relax, count to three, and try again. Throughout, smile at the audience and look confident. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Do You Struggle to Make Conversation? A Menu of Options for Small Talk. 7 Things Really Persuasive People Do | Inc. 5000.
10-things-extraordinary-people-say-every-day. Want to make a huge difference in someone's life? Here are things you should say every day to your employees, colleagues, family members, friends, and everyone you care about: "Here's what I'm thinking. " You're in charge, but that doesn't mean you're smarter, savvier, or more insightful than everyone else. Back up your statements and decisions. Give reasons. Though taking the time to explain your decisions opens those decisions up to discussion or criticism, it also opens up your decisions to improvement.
Authority can make you "right," but collaboration makes everyone right--and makes everyone pull together. "I was wrong. " I once came up with what I thought was an awesome plan to improve overall productivity by moving a crew to a different shift on an open production line. In practice, it wasn't. So, a few weeks later, I met with the crew and said, "I know you didn't think this would work, and you were right. I felt terrible. It turns out I was wrong about that, too.
"That was awesome. " How to Succeed at Office Politics. 6 home truths about rockstar developers | Application Development. A big, important project has launched -- and abruptly crashed to the ground. The horrible spaghetti code is beyond debugging. There are no unit tests, and every change requires a meeting with, like, 40 people. Oh, if only we'd had a team of 10 "rock star" developers working on this project instead! It would have been done in half the time with twice the features and five-nines availabilty. [ Also on InfoWorld: 10 practices of highly ineffective software developers and 7 programming myths -- busted. | Find out how versed you are in programming languages with our "Hello, World" programming languages quiz. | Learn how to work smarter, not harder with InfoWorld's roundup of all the tips and trends programmers need to know in the Developers' Survival Guide.
Download the PDF today! On the other hand, maybe not. Truth no. 1: You can't afford all senior developersMany managers have an unrealistic understanding of the labor market for software developers. Sound far-fetched? 5 Habits of Highly Effective Communicators. 1.9K Flares Filament.io 1.9K Flares × Have you ever walked away from talking with someone that you’ve just met and thought to yourself “Wow, this was one of the best conversations I’ve ever had!”? I’ve recently had one of those and at first I quite selfishly concluded “Wow, I’m a great communicator”. But then I realized, hang on a second, I think this other person was the reason I felt so good about this talk, how did he do that? I started to think about a few of the things this person did, that made me feel so comfortable and open to speak with him. In usual Buffer blog manner, I thought of finding some real science to back up some of the simple habits this newly found friend had so ingrained when talking with me.
So what I’ve come up with are 5 of the most effective habits famous communicators have used for hundreds of years. Let’s dig in: 1. The word conversation generally brings to mind talking—at least for me. You might have heard of active listening before. 2. 3. 4. 5. My Compliment to the World's Most Evil Co-worker. I posted the compliment challenge last week – here’s my own response to it… She was pure evil at work. No, really, I mean it. I swear she’s the world’s most evil co-worker. There is but one word to describe her impact on everything she came in contact with: toxic. Here’s the evidence to support it: 1) I never heard her say ANYTHING nice. i.e. 2) She would spin stories out of innocent situations to make others look bad. I could cite many more examples, but it only gets me angry, and the point of this exercise is to put my emotions in check and find a way to connect with someone I don’t like.
You were always consistent and reliable in your work. Whew! Over the years, I’ve trained myself to remember that people like that usually have had some hard times in their life that have made them that way. Thanks for showcasing the affects of being evil in the office. Wow – I guess evil in the workplace has its value too. Enjoy this article? Photo Credit: Shutterstock.