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Everyone has their own way of expressing their mission
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Working as a team requires developing a rhythm everyone can follow
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Using a common language increasing the effectiveness of communication
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Editor: Shirley Lee,
VP Communications
Proofreader:
Molly Rupprath
Copyright 2006
All rights reserved.
October 2006, In This Issue:
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Sweet Success
It’s that time of year
when the sugar high is on the rise.
Everywhere you look there is candy,
candy,
candy! With that in mind, Let's explore a
simple reward and recognition program that uses candy as the basis for the program.
Strategic Planning Can Change Your Organization’s Future: Part 1 of 2 Management teams who regularly invest time together to plan the future tend to be far more successful in running profitable and growing companies. Setting “uninterruptible” time aside and taking your whole executive team out of the day to day operations to an offsite for 2-3 days may seem like a hefty investment.
Have you had a chance to meet all of this year’s talented and motivated Dallas ASTD Vice Presidents? Your 2006 chapter officers have been focused on providing service, ideas, information, job leads, networking events, and development opportunities for you, our Dallas ASTD members.
“Picturing” the Importance of Effective Training
How crucial is it for a trainer and learner to have a mutually-understood frame of reference? How important is it to provide clear direction, and to respond to any uncertainties with specific questions to evoke useful answers? How much do we rely upon a range of stimuli without fully appreciating how that contributes to learning?
The Emotionally Intelligent Presenter: Part 1 of 3 First in a 3 part series on how to connect with
your audience
in a personal, proven and purposeful
way
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You Have
7 Seconds to Create Your First Impression!
Some of us need reminding of how important our first impression really is. Sometimes, we “don’t look people in the eye” when we meet them. Sometimes, we look like we've been sucking on sliced lemons.
How To Conduct A Creativity Session:
The world has changed! To
maintain world leadership, you must re-conceptualize your business. Better quality and better service are essential,
but they are not enough today.
Creativity and innovation are the primary engines that will drive
lasting competitive advantage. Creativity Tools can help advance creativity and
innovation--tools that become increasingly valuable within any level or scope
of transition.
What?!
There’s a Process for Designing Learning?!
Do you ever feel backed into a corner by a Learning Design project?
Perhaps someone else threw it on your plate at the last minute. So you and your
team just jump in and start writing. The fact is,
that’s the slow way to do it! You’ve got to Make Your Own Plans if someone is pushing you to create a learning
venue without the process!
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October 17 POP! Stand Out in Any Crowd in 60 Seconds or Less Sam Horn
November 14 Would You Do Business with You? Jane Handly
December 12 Best Place to Learn Award presentation with topic Jack Phillips
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Chapter Officers Make 
ASTD
announces Employee Learning Week as December 4-8, 2006. Use it to
take a proactive approach and recognize the strategic value of
employee learning in your organization. 
