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Asking for help – how to do it more often and better

How to get better at asking for help. Self-reliance is an admirable quality to develop in ourselves and others, it’s also self-limiting. The Dr. Wayne Baker fact is, you can’t really be successful in any endeavor, business, or career if you don’t ask for help sometimes. Help is hard to ask for, so how can …

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How to make better presentations – engage and inspire action

Presentations should engage and compel action. Here’s how to build them for better outcomes. Nobody really wants information presented to them. In fact, there may not be a more painful experience than having bullet points read to you during a PowerPoint presentation. And the only thing worse than that is a presentation without a clear point – why should …

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Try something – get going to get results

“The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely…Yours is …

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Question for you – how to ask better questions

Asking better questions can make a huge difference in everything you do. Unlocking answers is the key to real understanding. Good questions can make all the difference in advancing your career, business or organization. They can produce drops of information that add up to game-changing buckets of insights. photo credit: Questions viaphotopin(license) Journalism is an …

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Helping people prosper – how to be truly helpful

Here are the key elements to keeping people motivated and focused. photo credit: michaelwm25 via photopincc Maslow’s Hierarchy is famous for teaching us about our most basic needs of food, shelter, love and esteem, but hundreds of modern studies now point to three universal psychological needs that are necessary for sustained success. Whether you’re motivating yourself …

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