Leadership Success Tip

Delegation helps to channel more of the latent strengths in other people. So if you can delegate, you will help the growth of both the individuals concerned and the organisation for which you all work.

Subject Lines: 15 Rules to Write Them Right

Fifty characters could be all that stands between you and success in your next email campaign. Fifty characters is all the space you have in a typical subject line to catch your reader's eye and entice him to open your email and take the action you want. How could something so small make or break an email's success? Because many recipients use the subject line to decide whether to open or delete an email. Subject lines are tricky devils, however. A good one can get your email opened in a flash, while a bad one could spell oblivion in the trash or junk file. Because so much is riding on your subject line, we came up with 15 rules for crafting a good one. Be sure to review them before you send your next email campaign. Read on ...

Meeting Success Tip

Prepare a written agenda for your meeting. Make sure that everyone at the meeting is aware of it, and if necessary, have the meeting agree to it, formally. Then, if you need to, you can keep discussion focussed by referring to the agenda.
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Eduspeak

From This is true

Forget "compare and contrast"; schoolchildren now learn "text-to-text connections".

They don't go to "home room" but rather "Achievement Time" or, in some schools, "Time to Care".

The temporary classroom is now a "learning cottage" rather than a "trailer".

Even the humble essay is gone, replaced by the "extended constructed response".

"If teachers want to talk in those terms among themselves, they're welcome to," says Vocabulary Review publisher Hartwell Fiske. "But introducing children to them is criminal, dehumanizing." Students agree. "It's like renaming a prison 'The Happy Fun Place'," complains a Maryland senior. "Tests should be called tests. 'Brief constructed response'; you just wonder why they don't say 'paragraph'." (Washington Post)

...It's nice that kids still get to learn about George Orwell.

Collaborative Problem Solving For Ending Social Conflict: A 6-Step Method

When it comes to reaching an end to a social conflict by use of communication, skill in listening, assertion, and conflict resolution are required so as to use collaborative problem solving. In addition, you need to recognize a process that works for you in order to reach a solution. Below is a 6-step sample Collaborative Problem-Solving Method. Read on ...

Speech Making Success Tip -Body language

Before you open your mouth to say the first word of your speech, you are communicating with the audience. Your stance, facial expression and body language are a picture that paints a thousand words. Make it calm, confident and pleasant, and you start "on the right foot"! So plant both of your feet, stand up straight and smile at them. You'll feel confident, sincere and professional and the audience will know. Than you can play with them. For free tips on using body language in your presentations, just send me an email.