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The Growing Importance Of “soft Skills” In Business.

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

Increasingly, success in business depends not on technical knowledge but on relationships with other people. It’s not just “who you know,” it’s “How you are able to know” that matters – you need to be able to relate to people, influence people, “read” people to anticipate their needs and desires; you need to know how to understand and adapt to the culture around you; you need conflict resolution and mediation skills to defuse problems before they arise. Most of all, you need to know how to communicate. All of these “soft skills” are increasingly important for anyone who wants to have success in the business world.

Most of all, you need to know how to communicate. All of these “soft skills” are increasingly important for anyone who wants to have success in the business world.

What are some of the “soft skills” that a life coach can help you develop?

Empathy. Many business leaders got to the top by focusing relentlessly on results and by honing their competitive drive. These skills are important, but often the business leaders who are hard-chargers and who love to win also have a hard time relating to other people or understanding the impact of their decisions on others. A life coach can help you to see the ways that your leadership style might be perceived – rightly or wrongly – by others, and can help you work toward the needs of the people around you.

Emotional intelligence. Many business leaders are known for their tireless work ethic and their laser-like attention to detail – but many of these people get tripped up by the everyday challenges of relating to other people. A life coach can help you develop a better understanding of what truly motivates people, while also learning how to react to the emotions of others and manage your own emotions for optimum productivity and better relationships with the people at work and in your life.

Flexibility. What do you do when things go wrong? The true measure of a leader is how he/she behaves when faced with massive, unexpected change. A life coach can assist you to develop your sense of personal resilience, help you let go of unimportant things, and help you to become more agile and fleet-footed in reacting to challenges at work and in life.

Communications. This is the most important “soft skill” of all. How well are you able to persuade, inspire, motivate and mobilize the people around you? How well do you listen? Do you know how to hear what is being said as well as perceive the emotional undercurrents that go unsaid? Can you navigate the nuances of different styles of communication? Can you adapt your style to communicate effectively with different personalities and work styles?

A life coach can help you with all of these issues and more – all with the goal of improving your effectiveness in business, and driving your business’s bottom-line results.

Steven Lyles is a Certified Coach, Consulting Hypnotherapist, and Certified Practitioner and Licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. He trains and coaches sales professionals and business executives on how to improve their communications skills and boost their profits, while also leading more positive, fulfilling lives.

Do you want your business to grow? Hire Steven H. Lyles, Life Coach for Business Growth build your business through life coaching, and building success stories – every day for every client

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Learning The Mechanics Of Speed Reading

Friday, June 11th, 2010

The mind is an extraordinary power of which we only use a very small portion. In our book, “Speed Reading in only One Hour” we will show you how to tap some of that unused power and use it for your personal success in high school, college, and life.

Your brain can understand from 10,000 to 50,000 bits of data per minute; one bit equates to one word. Although this information comes from old statistics (1980’s),. based on recently developed speed reading technology, and strides in various types of learning technology, you can achieve phenomenal reading speeds.

The average HS grad, when tested, reads about 250 words per minute. The college student reads at about 300 words per minute. But, no matter what your baseline reading speed, don’t worry, it is only the beginning. Can you imagine what an advantage you would have to be able to read over 100% faster than you did before? The possibilities are limitless.

We receive information through our five physical senses, (touching, tasting, hearing, smelling, and seeing) and by those we make decisions. We make choices and judgments from the factors that our physical senses bring into play. The five physical senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch) are preprogrammed for automatic reaction.

We learn, not only from physical senses, but through various forms of thought. Most thought is conscious in nature. Senses however work automatically. An example of an automatic reaction might be: when a hungry teenager smells pizza, he or she begins salivating. What’s taking place is that the sense of smell (called olfactory senses) has automatically delivered a thought, “PIZZA”, to the brain and mind. The thought may be unconscious.

Sensing food is a physical sensation of your sense smell. It is a mental sensation (unconsciously or consciously) through thinking. And finally, there tends to be a physical sensation by eating, swallowing, and smiling. To summarize the PIZZA experience: Brain and mind is where the “action” is — and your body is where the “reaction” is.

Your brain and the mind has awesome untapped potential; I’ll teach you how to tap into that potential by using the course Speed Reading in One Hour, available at www.speedread.org . I’ll show you how you can be a total success in your college life and beyond.

America’s best speed reading courses, fast methods, one hour or less, or live courses Double/Triple Your Reading Speed, Improve Comprehension, Better Your Grades, Learn speed reading todayBe a speed reader now!

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How Speed Reading Will Work For You

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Just use these hints and you’ll learn how to speed reading:

You can read lines of text, more easily, by reading groups of words at one time than reading a single word, and your reading speed will increase when you just widen your eye span (peripheral vision).

1. Techniques will teach you have to activate hand-to-eye coordination, then you’ll be speed reading quickly and immediately. Improve your reading abilities for business or personal use with just a little practice. You can double, even triple your current rates of reading without hurting comprehension or retention.

Different speed reading methods for different kinds of reading material:

1. Fiction, especially romance novels. Try speed reading a hot and passionate love scene. You can’t! I don’t speed read romance novels. I don’t know anyone who does that.

2. Non-Fiction. Speed reading is perfect in this dimension. Where there is something to learn that is not based on the emotions speed reading is great. And it comes in various forms: newspapers with narrow columns, magazines, with slightly wider columns, books, computer screens, and in the mail and email.

Slow readers struggle. They cant identify the techniques to success and they struggle due to slowing down to identify words that don’t understand — they will see a particular word, slow down, think about its meaning, then restart the reading process. Perhaps they won’t sound out all of the words theyve been reading, but they will spend more time on some phrases than others. That’s because, they are just skimming across those small sections that are easy to understand.

Creating equality in comprehension and reading speed is what gives us our base reading speed. You will also need to establish a base-line reading speed for what you read the most. There are different techniques for different types of reading, with varying speeds, and comprehension rates.

Study speed reading, and practice doing the exercises, they will increase your reading speed drastically with practice. But, before you begin practicing the actual speed reading techniques, that we teach in The Complete Speed Reading Program, let me suggest that you learn to coordinate your eye-to-pacing finger movement.

In the beginning suggest you reread the same material over and over, until you develop a well-coordinated reading speed. When you feel comfortable with it, your rate of speed will improve almost immediately almost 50%. Then, once you are comfortable practicing at that rate, move on to more advanced techniques that will increase your reading speed further.

Consider this:

1. You will be reading very fast (scan read) pre-reading for important factors 300%.

2. You should use a 50% over normal rate when reading for information overload.

3. Post-read for quick review will be fast reading; just a fast scan 300-400% quicker.

4. For testing, scan before prepare for tests your rating speed will be medium fast 200%.

That’s how easy it will be. Your mind will be trained to be the perfect learning machine. Just start right now with Complete Speed Reading Course, a beginner course, and intense in-depth program, and audio reinforcement. Guaranteed to bring you greater success.

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Speed Reading: From University To Your Home

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

What started as a university lecture course has evolved into an affordable do-it-yourself course designed to make everyone “from stay-at-home moms and dads to administrative assistants to MBAs to CEOs” more valuable to their company in the form of The Complete Speed Reading Program.

The Complete Speed Reading Program, Family Edition, contains four books (available both as a PDF download and “if desired” in print):

Speed Read in Only One Hour teaches the basic techniques and has multiple reinforcement exercises. If You Can Read This, You Can Read Faster is specifically designed for children. It is written at a third-grade reading level to help the young brains the best chance to re-learn how to read. It also teaches the basic techniques of the program. Be Dynamic Through Speed Reading is essential for anyone looking to go to college or go back to school. Focusing on concentration, note taking, and recall, this book will help students wade through the millions of words that need to be read each semester and give them time to not only finish their studies, but also to have a social life.

Think Right is a book not on speed reading, but as SpeedRead America takes a holistic approach to everything we do “helps one develop one’s own self-power and provides an ethical viewpoint on technology” Think Right focus is learning to help set your thoughts on what you want and then accomplish whatever that might be.

In addition to the books, the Complete Speed Reading Program includes a dozen audio files designed to be listened to at any time “during a commute, during “down time” at work, or even during sleep” to buttress not only the speed reading, but the other topics covered in the books. Some of the audio files supplement the speed reading program while others cover reading comprehension, accelerated learning abilities, memory enhancement and intuitive development. Others take on a more spiritual bent, offering tips and conditioning to aid in relaxation and stress relief, developing self confidence and self power, and eliminating the inner negative dialogue.

The Speed Read Complete books and courses have been sold all over the world, and have been translated into six major world languages. Developed by Dr. Jay Polmar, an expert in the fields of self-improvement, continuing education and self-growth, The Complete Speed Read Program for Families presume a success rate unheard of in its industry and offers a full money back guarantee that you will be reading noticeably and significantly faster in only 21 days.

Read Faster in 11 minutes. We Guarantee It! Read Faster in 11 minutesover 3 decades experience teaching people in every continent to DOUBLE READING SPEED! A known expert teacher offers you his secrets to Read Faster in 11 minutes.Read Faster in 11 minutesSee results immediately!

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The Most Amazing Speed Reading Course Ever — 11 minutes!

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Most people can’t believe it until they’ve tried it. 11 Minute Speed Reading is an amazing course because Dr Jay Polmar, founder of speedread.org, cut out all the hot air, and teaches you the major techniques in 11 minutes.

How can this course do it? Simply, you’ll learn how it was developed and why. Then, you’ll learn the fastest reading techniques ever developed and you’ll start to use the methods immediately. By the end of the 11 minutes – you’ll be a speed reader.

Also, you’ll learn the right way to read a book. You’ll learn how to get your reading task organized, what to look for, and how to remember what you read.

Plus, you’ll learn the secrets of how to write a term paper, report, or any type of paper in 10 days including the research, organization, writing, review, and formal presentation.

A little practice, after studying the methods for 11 minutes, you read 50% to 75% faster and daily practice for a month-you’ll double your reading speed.

Dr. Polmar is famous for speed reading and accelerated learning courses since 1977. He is the only speed reading teacher and author who has incorporated several different techniques of speed reading along with visualization and relaxation techniques to help people, from every country, to read faster and have a better and more productive life.

Dr. Jay Polmar, (founder of speedread.org) guarantees that you’ll be amazed – at how powerful your own abilities are. www.11minutespeedreading.com is the special site for the course.

You’ve wanted to learn speed reading, but haven’t had the time or money. Problem solved. 11MinuteSpeedReading. In 11 minutes and $20 you’ll do twice as much in less time! We guarantee it!

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Learn and Teach Your Child To Read Faster!

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Have you ever declined joining a book club because you can’t remember a word you read or because you can’t keep up? If your reading speed is more tortoise than hare, perhaps it’s time to look into a new way of reading.

But wait you say. It took years to learn how to read before. I just dont have that much of time.

Never fear! With the Speed Read Complete Family edition, you will be able to double your reading speed in only an hour in the privacy of your own home, dorm room, or office! Speedread America’s time-tested method of teaching your brain to speed read has been taught in live seminars for decades all around the world and the ebooks have been translated into five languages.

Are you worried about studying speed reading online? Dr. Jay Polmar taught speed reading from 1979 to 1993 and then set up those same courses for you to learn online. Over 100,000 people have studied and you can too! Dont waste hundreds of dollars to read just a few words a minute faster with other methods? With our time-tested and guaranteed Speed Read Complete Family Edition “including four ebooks as well as 12 supplementary MP3 audio files which fit easily in any iPod or other MP3 player” we guarantee you will be reading noticeably faster and comprehending more in just the first hour or every penny of your money back.

Start your Speed Read Complete program (if you are a child, or if you have a child), with If You Can Read This, You Can Read Faster (specifically designed for school-aged children). Or, you can start with the higher-level, Speed Reading in Only One Hour and move to our Be Dynamic through Speed Reading. In our full course you will learn not only how to speed read, but also how to learn to control your sub-vocalization, vary your reading speed at will, batch process, and the all-important techniques of power thinking.

Not only will you double your reading speed in just the first hour, using our time-tested Speed Read Complete course, you’ll be able to increase your memory, recall, concentration, note taking, and so much more. In less than just three weeks, you could even see a promotion at work or a dramatic rise in your child’s GPA due to this new-found love of learning.

The Speed Read Complete was written based on a 3-day lecture course by Dr. Jay Polmar (www.speedreadcomplete.com), an accomplished author and university and community college professor who has over 40 titles to his name. Dr. Polmar has helped over 100,000 all around the world read faster and get ahead in both school and life.

You can be the best you can be in College and in Corporate America. Be sure to check out Dr. Jay Polmar’s most excellent course: The Complete Speed Reading Program — there are family and business editions. The Complete Speed Reading program , and be the best you can be in College and business- be powerful!

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