What are Good Communication Skills and How to Convey Them?

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Practicing good communication skills remains a core component to success in today’s digital age of texts and tweets. It’s great to communicate in today’s lines; to Snapchat, Like, Retweet and Tumble, but when it comes to the workplace, it comes down still to human interaction.

Good communication skills never go out of style. Good communication can help you avoid conflict, achieve goals, and enhance your reputation in almost every industry and instance. Armed with the right communication methods, you can use these skills to make a significant, positive difference in your life (whether for personal or professional gain). ...  read more

3 Unexpected Lessons from My 15K Race

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Two weeks ago, I ran in a 15K race in San Francisco.  It was the Hot Chocolate Run.   I didn’t run fast nor break any records.  On the contrary, I didn’t train for it, had only two hours of sleep the night before, and almost didn’t make it to the race.   This was not like me.  This article is less about the race and more about the three lessons I unexpectedly learned along the way. ...  read more

How to Develop Leadership Skills – 6 Habits

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Leaders like Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and Microsoft entrepreneur Bill Gates might cringe if everyone knew one of their greatest secrets, and the core principle that elevates all leaders: Leadership is a learned practice.

Today’s top leaders didn’t rise to their positions by happy accident. These leaders learned and successfully applied the leadership lifestyle. And, with a little hard work, you can also achieve these same admirable leadership qualities. ...  read more

New Year Resolution Ideas – Create Habits Not Goals

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Have you declared your New Year’s  Resolutions yet?  Well, I have, but not in terms of goals.  I have a new set of new year resolution ideas this year.   They are geared toward helping me achieving a more lasting change than what goals can achieve.

But first, let’s talk about what make a good vs bad new year resolution.  Did you know that over 60% of Americans make New Year Resolutions but only 8% achieving those resolutions? ...  read more

List of the Most Important Communication Skills

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List of the most important communication skills

In an increasingly digital world, good communications practices both in-person and online are more important than ever before.

Good communication can help you avoid potential issues, reach your goals and enhance your reputation both personally and professionally.  However, mastering this type of proactive, effective communication requires a very specific skill set.  This skill set is comprised primarily of “soft” skills (skills that are less tangible than “hard” skills like math and science skills) ...  read more

List of 10 Leadership Skills Needed for the Workplace

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How does Larry Page (Google), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Tim Cook (Apple) and Mark Parker (Nike) have continued success in their industries and are still loved by their employees?  It’s not because they’re just intelligent and business-savvy, but they also have the soft skills that separate them from the pack. In other words, they’re great leaders through and through. ...  read more