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Techniques for brainstorming and generating new ideas
The power of collaboration and feedback in the creative process
How to recognize and overcome limiting beliefs
Observe yourself:
Do you make consistent eye contact?
How do you position yourself when speaking to people?
Does it change based on who you are talking to?
How do people react to you?
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Less is more! Pare back your design and resist the urge to stuff every fact, figure, font etc..
Utilize typography. If in doubt, ask for the brand guidelines for your company and follow those.
Pay attention to balance and harmony. You can achieve this by using sim...
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State your assumptions.-Start by saying ‘I assume you have heard about the new policy change, effective June 1...
Read often.- read often and when you do, think about what you like (or dislike) about what you’re reading. Emulate what you like, and work to avoid what you dislik...
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We often overestimate how much other people know about our specialist subjects, it might be necessary to write in more detail. At the same time, don’t write a novel!
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The first step to improve is to make sure that your spelling and grammar are perfect.
There are plenty of online tools that can help you with this.
Now, this is not a perfect solution, if you are not the world’s strongest writer you can use it.
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You want to be judicious about what you include, and why you are including it.
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Begin with your stated purpose (‘I think we need to increase ad spending 10%’)
Move on to your reasoning (‘The upcoming holiday season is a prime time to target our customers more effectively’)
Review possible outcomes (‘We could increase sales between 20 and 30%’).
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Format everything, to make sure that you are creating a readable text.
Use bullet points and paragraphs to break up your message.
Highlight your points in bold if you have a lot of text.
Underline anything that you think is crucial.
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Be a Good Listener
Improve Non-verbal communication
Improve verbal communication
Improve written communication
Improve visual communication
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We’re not just talking about hearing the words that a person is saying; rather you should be tuned in to their non-verbal communication also.
Is the person avoiding eye contact?
Is their posture open or closed?
Are they fidgeting with their hands?
All of these actions conv...
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Good communication skills are essential to allow others and yourself to understand information more accurately and quickly. In contrast, poor communication skills lead to frequent misunderstandings and frustration.
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When you are doing the speaking, you should look the person you're talking to directly in the eyes, but not so much when you're the person listening.
Making eye contact while your interlocutor is speaking actually harms your perceived competence.
Eye contact is a natural part of most casual conversations. From everyday experiences, we know that we make assumptions about people's personalities based on how much they make eye contact. We can also feel left out if people don't make eye contact.
Joy is more consistent and is cultivated internally. It comes when you make peace with who you are, why you are and how you are, whereas happiness tends to be externally triggered and is based on other people, things, places, thoughts and events.
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