My article on people skills or soft skills as they are sometimes known was recently published in a Career Advisor blog. These sets of skills are among the most important career related skills that you can develop these days. See the People Skills articl ...
Confirmed As Guest Speaker At Andrew Skelly’s 3 Day Event In March
I've just been confirmed as a guest motivational speaker at Andrew Skelly's three day seminar event March 5-6-7/10. This will be my first appearance as a speaker at such a multi-day seminar or bootcamp event. It will be in the Toronto area and much more ...
Important To Expand Your Network For Success
To maximize your success in life, it's very important to expand your network so that you will be connected to people who can help you in various stages of your career and life in general. Now that we have social media, it's to your advantage to use the d ...
First Dose Of Motivation Audio Podcast Is Up
The first Dose of Motivation audio podcast for 2010 is up and running! It sets a positive tone of motivation for the entire year but to really stir your curiosity, the example described has something to do with a tuna salad. What does tuna salad have to ...
Attended Promotion Seminar By Andrew Skelly
As part of my own networking and educational activities, I attended a seminar on promoting yourself as a seminar speaker by Andrew Skelly today. Andrew is the author of the book Amazing Millionaire Formula. I was planning to add public seminars as part ...
Inspiration and Adversity Video Interview
The Talking Purpose talk show with Michelle Vandepas is an online video show and I was interviewed about inspiration and adversity. It's a short 16 minute interview using some interesting online video technology by Oovoo although at times, the audio does ...
How Can You Break The Ice In Social Diversity?
Social Diversity During my workplace diversity training presentation this morning to an executive networking group, one of the questions I asked the audience was how can they break the ice in social diversity. In other words, what skills or unique facts ...
Starting Up With Diversity And Motivational Talks
I'm starting my 2010 speaking year with both my diversity and motivational talks. I will be speaking for a large executive networking group tomorrow morning locally followed by an HR group in west Toronto next week. Both of these will feature my "Kick D ...
Energy Saving Tips As Part Of New Years Resolutions
As mentioned before, I will start to share more of my New Years resolutions. Part of them involves saving costs wherever possible. As I was comparing my energy (hydro and natural gas) bills, I noticed that in general, I've managed to reduce the costs a ...
Motivational Diversity Speaker Reading SPIN Selling Book
As a motivational diversity speaker, I believe that it is important to keep on learning by regular reading. The book I'm currently reading is a sales book called SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham. I actually have had this book sitting on my shelves for a few ...