Posts Tagged ‘ Professional Development ’

How To Develop Self Confidence

February 22, 2010
By Larry Prevost

Here’s a question someone asked on one of the online forums: How Do I Break Out Of My Shell? I’m considering a career in marketing/advertising but I’m awfully shy. A friend recently suggested that a career like this would “force” me out of my shell and I would learn...

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How Do You Discover Your Talents?

November 27, 2009
By Larry Prevost

During my NLP certification, my strategies instructor made a comment concerning talents and goals during our one of our discussions. We were reviewing the NLP TOTE model (TOTE is an acronym for Test-Operate-Test-Exit), when suddenly our conversation turned to behaviors and outcomes. That’s when our instructor said, “You know...

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You Only Think You’re Free

November 19, 2009
By Larry Prevost
You Only Think You’re Free

I was watching an encore presentation of “The Prisoner” the other night. This was not the 1960’s classic with Patrick McGoohan, but the re-imagination of the 1960 series with James Caviezel as Number 6 and Ian McKellen as Number 2. In this re-imagined classic, there was a scene in...

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Learning To Recover

November 8, 2009
By Larry Prevost

Just the other day, I received an email from the McBassi and Company, a management consulting firm whose members were at one time deeply involved in examining the relationship between a companies stock performance and their investment in training their people. In fact, the CEO, Laurie Bassi first noticed...

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Chief Learning Officer Magazine – Mental Muscle Power

November 8, 2009
By Larry Prevost

The Connection Between Learning Power and Physical Prowess Just Got Stronger Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a rash of articles outlining the benefits controlling your health through exercise and diet, ranging from the effects of sugar on cellular activity to the effects of obesity on brain aging....

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