Excellence in Business Communication, 10th Edition
Chapter 8. Writing Routine and Positive Messages
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"In today’s lesson, we’re going to continue our look at the 10 key characteristics of the successful business leader.
"For today’s lesson, we’re going to take a look at 10 key skills or characteristics that every successful business leader needs.
"Get more done by understanding which of your tasks depend on which others, and sequence them to take the least amount of time.
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"Do your brainstorming sessions create a drizzle or a flood of ideas?
Everyone experiences the world through unconscious biases of perceptual filters, and too often people are unaware that they are doing so.
"When you’re in an interview, everything is focused on you – your education, your skills, and the qualities that make you the best candidate for the job.
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"In this podcast, Coach Kelly Forrister focuses on the best practices of email communications with others, including appropriate use, writing effective subject lines, creating agreed upon response times, reply to all and more.
"Emotions and work are a weird thing.
"When is the last time you sent a card or note to a business associate?
"Listen to a fascinating segment with David Allen where he outlines the sources of procrastination, shares a few fun examples of the dynamics at work, and talks about the steps you can take to overcome it.
"As entrepreneurs, business owners and leaders, self-awareness is essential to your success.
"As soon as something goes wrong in our lives, we as humans tend to fall into negative thinking patterns.
These brief podcasts focus on marketing applications of social media.
Check out this excerpt from Work Party by Jaclyn Johnson (photo, left).
"This kind of discussion is all about degrees of certainty.
"This kind of discussion is all about degrees of certainty.
"The businesses that are best loved by customers tend to be ones that make them feel smart, competent, in control.
"Thinking too much isn't just a nuisance.