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Our website has had a makeover just in time for the New Year. Site graphics were inspired by our new logo, which I hope you have noticed here in Zipline since its redesign a few months back. We have a new tagline, too: Words Well Spoken. This was inspired by what our graduates say about the benefit of our Excellence in Speaking Institute.
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For more than 25 years, Ty Boyd Executive Learning Systems has been helping individuals and organizations communicate more effectively with their customers
We work primarily with people at Fortune 1000 companies in the areas of public speaking, presentations skills,
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Happy New Year, I'm charged up and ready for 2006. How about you? A recent survey of top managers shows that a lot of people are ready for improvement this year. Use the link under my name below to drop me a note about your New Year's resolutions. We'll discuss resolutions, as well as a plan from Harvard University on reviving the lost art of public speaking.
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Ty Boyd
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New Year, New Skills
A new year is upon us and it is time to pick up some new skills. You must continually acquire new skills if you are going to achieve work-related goals and excel in the workplace. If you're not growing and improving, you're dying. According to Accountemps, a lot of executives agree.
The accounting staffing firm polled senior executives from the nation's 1,000 largest companies, including managers in HR, finance and marketing, to find out about their 2006 work-related resolutions.
Tops on the list: 31 percent say acquiring a new skill is their number one work-related New Year's resolution. Here's the survey breakdown to the question, "If you were to make a career-related New Year's resolution, what would it be?"
31 percent - Acquire a new skill
19 percent - Spend less time at work
13 percent - Improve work relationships
7 percent - Make a career change
6 percent - Earn a promotion
3 percent - Earn a raise
9 percent - Other
12 percent - Don't Know
Accountemps offers several career-planning tips to help executives achieve their goals for 2006. Go back to school and commit to expanding your technical knowledge. Start fresh by settling past misunderstandings with co-workers and managers. Remember "auld" acquaintances and reach out to members of your professional network.
My favorite recommendation from their list should not surprise you: Don't forget the "soft" skills. Being a strong communicator and working well with others, Accountemps says, are pivotal skills in team settings. Focus on developing your interpersonal skills; if communication is not your strong suit, consider a writing or public speaking course.
Acquiring good communications skills can help you improve relationships, make a career change, earn a promotion and a raise. So, resolve to improve your skills now before the year gets any older.
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Reviving The Art Of Public Speaking
Harvard University has issued a report calling for the increasing integration of public speaking into its undergraduate curriculum, and I applaud this initiative. Public speaking skills can make a career. Lacking these skills can break one.
According to the Harvard report, "The teaching of public speaking and oral argument is scant, for many students non-existent, and must be revived vigorously. Oral communication should be taught as public speaking and also as debate and oral argument. A specific course or courses in public speaking should be mounted."
Harvard offered public speaking classes until the 1970s, and no one seems to know why they were removed from the curriculum. But a number of professors are lining up in support of adding them back.
Nancy Houfek, the Head of Voice and Speech at the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training is all for it. She notes that her vocal skills for the stage class she routinely has 60 students show up on the first day of class. She only takes 20 students per class.
"Twenty students a year is not enough," she says. "The bulk of the students that showed up were not interested in performing. They wanted to improve their public speaking...to use their voice professionally."
"Once you learn how to talk on your feet, you're also leaning how to think on your feet," Harvard writing tutor Luciana Herman says. "Oral presentation skills tend to enhance critical thinking skills."
"Harvard educates world leaders," says Houfek. "It is a proven fact that leaders need to speak well....Careers are made or broken on how people speak."
I couldn't have said it better myself.
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