Teens that lack social communication are at risk of behaving in an unhealthy manner within relationships. And a lack of social communication usually means a lack of communication skills in a company environment during their working years. To circumvent this occurrence, your friends at Dale Carnegie Training of Michigan are pleased to offer you...
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Starting out in the business world can be pretty intimidating. The mere thought of interacting with hardened business professionals can cause stress, anxiety, and bring about physiological changes in young adults, resulting in negative thoughts pervading one’s psyche. When aspiring young adults are faced with that much stress, the road to business success seems...
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Dale Carnegie once received a letter from Mrs. Edith Allred, of Mount Airy, North Carolina. “As a child,” she said, “I was extremely sensitive and shy. I was always overweight and my cheeks made me look even fatter than I was. I had an old-fashioned mother who thought it was foolish to make clothes...
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Many feel that hard work will bring great rewards, promotion and recognition. While this may be true in strictly a professional sense, the key to a successful LIFE is balancing your work and personal life, so you do not get burnt-out or have so much stress that it affects your health. To help you...
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Suppose someone denounced you as “a damn fool”—what would you do? Get angry? Indignant? Here is what Abraham Lincoln did: Edward M. Stanton, Lincoln’s Secretary of War, once called Lincoln “a damn fool.” Stanton was indignant because Lincoln had been meddling in Stanton’s affairs. In order to please a selfish politician, Lincoln had signed...
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We have all worked for a poor leader or bad boss in the past. Dysfunctional leadership does exist in many organizations. There are a multitude of challenges created when leadership does not act like it should. Here in Michigan, good leaders usually mean good employees and good organizations. But it is interesting to note...
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As leaders across Metro Detroit and Lower Michigan, we all want our businesses to grow, regardless of size and industry. Both small and large organizations need to be more successful so continued success is essential as we head more deeply into 2013. Although Michigan has its challenges, we still have the focus to grow...
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Vicki Baum, the famous novelist, once said that when she was a child, she met an old man who taught her one of the most important lessons she ever learned. She had fallen down and cut her knees and hurt her wrist. The old man, who had once been a circus clown, picked her...
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It is a time for celebration in your office. You have just been promoted to management and it is a great day for you and your office mates. But on the way home across Metro Detroit, you are deep in thought. You wonder if you can do the job. You even think that you...
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Dale Carnegie once commented on a study that was made on runaway wives. It was discovered that the main reasons wives ran away was a “lack of appreciation.” Carnegie then assumed if a study were made on runaway husbands, the reason would be quite the same. The reason, he surmised, is we often take...
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