Archive for October, 2008

Key to Making an Impact: What Makes People Believe You?

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Do people believe you? Or do they think you are a bluff? Do they trust the information you bring or do they verify the information you share? Do people around you take your word and trust it to be true?

Why should you care?

We live in an interdependent society, that means people around us affect our existence and we as an individual affect them as well. If you work in office, what you do and what you do not do affects people around you. The actions you take, change the way people think about you. If people believe you, they will believe in your actions. If they believe in your actions,

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9 Individuals Who Had a Strong Impact on the Modern World

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If I were to ask you, who were the leaders who made a strong impact on the whole world, who would they be? We talked about what impact means. It is about adding value to people around you, leaving an imprint or an impression on people. Last week, we also discussed about what does it take to make an impact – the 6 imperatives to make an impact.

The 9 individuals on this list were also the leaders in there own ways. Some left the world with a positive impact; some others made a very strong impact, but a negative one. So, we present the 9 leaders who made the most impact in their times. More >

You Will Fail to Attract Your Audience if You Don’t Do This

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This article is part of Communicate Better Series. 9 simple steps to giving great presentation will give you a better idea .

This article is not about how to design a rocket. Neither is this about finding the purpose of your life. These things are tough. Finding why you are giving that presentation is much easy. It is crucial for you to know the purpose of the speech. Why are you giving this presentation? What is the message of the talk? Questions like these seem to be common sense to most of us and yet amazingly high number of people don’t think about it.

Why find the purpose

Finding

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6 Qualities You Need to Make a Better Impact

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Don was a newcomer to our workgroup. He was intelligent and hard working. He would come to the office on time. He would stay late and get work done. In his undergrad, he appeared in the Dean’s list, got straight As and was highly recommended by his professor to this job.

But whenever he would be in a meeting, he just couldn’t make an impact. Everyone knew he had good knowledge about his subject. Often what he would say was right, but then why was he not making an impact? Why wasn’t his opinion being heard?

The answer –some of the qualities needed to make a better impact were missing in More >

How Do You Change the World?

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You read it right. How do you change the world? Do you think it’s beyond your reach? Yes? I would say No! To change the world, all you need is to make an impact on the world – a strong impact, strong enough to turn things around and add lot of value to people around you.  The word here is your impact or personal impact.

What is personal impact?

Personal impact is the result of your actions that affect people around you.  The way you act and react, leaves an impression and an imprint on people you interact with. This imprint can be positive or negative.  Again, personal impact is the More >

How to Effectively Organize Your Next Presentation

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It is recommended that you read 9 simple steps before reading the post presented below. If you have already read it, please keep in mind that this is 4th Step in presenting the information and you will have information from first three steps.

A presentation that does not flow very well will confuse and distract the audience. Organized information is usually remembered well and makes a better impact. Imagine a presentation on global warming. The presenter starts with how global warming is harming the earth and then gives some examples and then defines the concept of global warming. If I were More >

9 Basic Steps to Giving a Great Presentation

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A great presentation needs to be well prepared and then delivered with equal vigor to make it most effective. Several things should be kept in mind for getting a great impact to the presentation. In this post, we present 9 steps to a great presentation. Follow these steps for an effective presentation:Step 1: What’s the Purpose – A presentation or a talk or a public speech needs to have a message. What this message should be? This should be clear before moving any further. The purpose of the talk should be identified and the message should be in line with this purpose.. To find out the More >

Do you know what are you looking for?

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Do you have a formula for success? How can I succeed in my career? What does it take to grow to the next level? How do I get hired in a big company? Where can I find a short cut to a promotion? How do I become a leader and a better person?

These are some common questions that most of us ask knowingly or unknowingly, to ourselves or to others. Those younger than me have asked me and I have asked these questions to my mentors and myself. If so many of us ask the same questions, is there an answer to them?

And the answer is…

The answer is that there is no simple answer. No one else can answer More >

About Chat at the Cooler

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Welcome to Chat at the Cooler – the blog that shares the adventures of a passionately curious mind. Usually these adventures are about growing yourself and developing skills for surviving in the business and personal world.

Why this name “Chat at the Cooler”?

Some people use water cooler to nourish their body with a non-fat, thirst quencher drink called water (or H2O by geeks). Some others use water cooler as anti-sleep medicine. These people walk to the cooler to magically vanish their sleep. Yet others, take a stroll to the cooler and meet other like-minded people to help and get help from More >

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