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Don’t Just Engage . . . Entertain!
April 16, 2018 by Jan Shawkey"You may feel you can successfully engage listeners with the critical substance of your message...Category: Meeting Skills, Special: Articles, Visual CommunicationComments Off on Don’t Just Engage . . . Entertain!
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Evidence Shows Students Still Learn More from Print Textbooks Than Screens
by Jan Shawkey"As researchers in learning and text comprehension, our recent work has focused on the differences between reading print and digital media...Category: Special: Articles, Teaching Methods and MaterialsComments Off on Evidence Shows Students Still Learn More from Print Textbooks Than Screens
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Ten Tips for Producing Highly Effective Business Videos
April 13, 2018 by Jan ShawkeyHal Landen (photo, left) has the 10 tips at VideoUniversity...Category: Special: Articles, Video Production, Visual CommunicationComments Off on Ten Tips for Producing Highly Effective Business Videos
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Use These 5 Prompts to Show Off Your Software Skills in Job Interviews
by Jan ShawkeyCategory: Job Interviews, Special: ArticlesComments Off on Use These 5 Prompts to Show Off Your Software Skills in Job Interviews
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Yes, You Need Informational Interviews. Here’s How to Land Them
April 12, 2018 by Jan Shawkey"Truthfully, I can’t recall the last informational interview I’ve gone on myself...Category: Career Planning, Job Interviews, Special: ArticlesComments Off on Yes, You Need Informational Interviews. Here’s How to Land Them
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Creativity and the Necessity of Giving Up Your Best Loved Ideas and Starting Over Again
by Jan Shawkey"The idea is to live in the middle of ideas, believing in them enough to take action but not enough so they become too big of an anchor when something better comes along...Category: Creativity/Brainstorming, Special: ArticlesComments Off on Creativity and the Necessity of Giving Up Your Best Loved Ideas and Starting Over Again
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10 Strategies to Reduce Money Stress and Improve Your Finances
by Jan Shawkey"In this post, you’ll learn what’s at the root of money stress, and develop ten strategies to reduce it and have a more peaceful life...Category: Financial Management, Special: ArticlesComments Off on 10 Strategies to Reduce Money Stress and Improve Your Finances
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5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Changing Your Routine
April 11, 2018 by Jan Shawkey"Before you set your alarm two hours earlier or radically change your diet, ask yourself, what are you hoping to achieve?..Category: Special: Articles, Work ProductivityComments Off on 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Changing Your Routine
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Ending a Sentence with a Preposition
by Jan Shawkey"One of the most frequent questions I’m asked is whether it’s acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition...Category: Special: Articles, Words-Phrases-SentencesComments Off on Ending a Sentence with a Preposition
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Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform
by Jan Shawkey"The ability to think through problems to the second, third, and nth order—or what we will call second-order thinking for short—is a powerful tool that great thinkers use to their advantage all the time...Category: Creativity/Brainstorming, Management Roles, Functions, and Skills, Special: ArticlesComments Off on Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform