Happy New Year

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A very Happy New Year to you and your family. Wish you all a prosperous year and a year that brings growth and success.

As mentioned in an earlier post this new year will bring some great improvements for this blog. Tell us what you would like to hear on this blog, speak up in the comments section below.

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Announcement – Changes to Chat at the Cooler

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New Year is approaching and I thought this would be an appropriate time to make some changes to this blog. With the new year you will see couple of significant changes to the blog. Until now, I have been posting about once a week and mostly posting on subjects like presentation, impact and communication. With new year, there will be some new direction to this blog, some of that change you may have already experience here. This blog will change in several aspects.   Frequency of posts

Since the time the blog started, I have been trying to post once a week. I am planning to post more

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Why you need a Vision for Your Life?

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Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

The Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.

Alice: I don’t much care where.

The Cat: Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.

As the wise Cat told Alice, if you don’t know where you are going, it doesn’t matter what road you take.Where are you going? What is your goal? If you don’t know what to aim for, what you want to get out of this life, it does not matter how hard you try, what efforts you put in you will never get what you want. Precisely because you do not know what you want.

Vision –

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7 Little-used Tools to Grab Your Audience’s Attention in First 30 Seconds

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This article is part of Communicate Effectively Series – A series on how to communicate publicly for success. Please read 9 simple steps before reading this post.

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We have briefly talked about what makes a great speech and how to organize your talk. We also discussed the importance of a good introduction last week. Last week we also saw four simple ways to grab attention in less than 30 seconds. In this post,

lets see some more ways to do the same – attracting attention. These techniques are not very common and therefore have higher chances of success.

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How to Attract Your Audience’s Attention in Less Than 30 Seconds

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This article is part of Communicate Effectively Series – A series on how to communicate publicly for success. Please read 9 simple steps before reading this post.

A good speech starts with a great "attention grabbing" introduction – an introduction that generates curiosity as well as alerts the audience. For a successful speech, it is important to attract your audience early in your talk. An inattentive audience suggests the speaker and their message is not important. If audience isn’t listening to what you are saying, the purpose of your speech will be never achieved. If you plan to

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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?

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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 >

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