Effective Communication. It might very well be the #1 soft skill you need to succeed. Think about it. When communication is poor, wires cross, tensions rise, and initiatives fail. We communicate daily with peers, direct reports, bosses, customers, friends, and partners. Doing it well means you get along better. It means you make more money,…
Tag: Personal Development
How Positive Self-Talk Can Boost Your Chances of Success
Do you know who your biggest critic is? It’s probably YOU. As human beings, we often sabotage our own chances of success just by the way that we talk to ourselves inside of our heads. (And sometimes we don’t even realize we are doing it!). The way we react to situations, how we respond to…
Dale Carnegie Digest: Top 5 Blog Posts of 2019
Thank you for making Dale Carnegie Training part of your self-improvement journey! In 2019 we published over fifty articles on public speaking, leadership, and soft skills, and the following five were the most popular amongst our readers. Stay tuned for 2020 and a whole new set of content that will help you to achieve your…
Soft Skills Every Leader Should Practice
Great leadership isn’t a given. Leadership is often learned by making mistakes, working your way up the ranks, and even more so, by observing leaders around you that excel and even the ones who do not. You can be a leader regardless of the position you hold. Whether you aspire to be a manager, a…
Building A Company Culture Of Value
All of the soft and hard skills in the world will not make you successful if your attitude and approach are out of sync from your organization as a whole. That said, how do you build an organization without first building a culture? It’s easy – you can’t. More and more, employees are not hired…
Leading Authentically
It seems like being yourself should be the easiest thing in the world to do, but it is often the most difficult for people, especially in leadership. Pretending to be someone different than yourself often feels safe, it protects you from being exposed, from the possibility that people will not like you, but it can…
Why You Should Leave Your Comfort Zone
Staying in the security of your comfort zone forever sounds like a nice idea, doesn’t it? In there it’s safe, cozy, and above all predictable. No anxiety or worry, no listing pros and cons, and best of all — no fear of failure or injury. Yes, that sounds great. The exact same thing, day after…
Breeding Success From Failure
Dale Carnegie was no stranger to the concept of breeding success from failure. In fact, it’s a principle still shared with students today. He said that failure is not meant to stop you, but rather, failure is there to help you go further. Therefore you must learn how to use said failure as a stepping…
How Not to be a Bad Leader
We talk a lot about what it takes to be a good leader, but what about the things leaders should be avoiding? The last thing any leader wants is for their team to think poorly of them, to be afraid of them, to complain about them at the water cooler — so how can you…
Three Easy Ways to Boost Your Self-Confidence
Have you ever witnessed someone’s stellar self-confidence level and wished you could be just as confident? Many people mistakenly believe that confidence is simply something they either have or don’t have, and those who lack it often think they’ll never be confident. Truth be told— no one is born with limitless self-confidence. It is a skill…