The document provides 5 tips for facing challenges in 2014:
1. Change negative situations into positive opportunities by pursuing new areas of interest and talents.
2. Rather than being in denial, accept challenges and let go of the past in order to move forward.
3. Surround yourself with a supportive network of honest friends and family.
4. Face your fears by being decisive and taking action with a plan.
5. Practice gratitude, even when facing difficulties, like volunteering or giving back.
We all want interfaces that feel human—where the content is friendly and everything flows right along. But being human isn’t just about being breezy.
Every user who interacts with your site comes there with personal histories—with pain and problems, with past traumas or present crises. How can we take our users’ vulnerabilities, triggers, and touchy subjects into account when we don’t even know what they are? What would it mean to optimize not just for seamlessness, but for kindness? This talk discusses how clear intentions and compassionate communication can strengthen everything from form questions to headlines to site structures.
Outline for those that may need to hone their listening skills in dealing with management, peers, subordinates, family or anyone else for that matter. It talks about things to avoid, things to focus on and how to engage in conversation better with the other person.
The 8 vital checks that a non-profit communication should entail.
The Elephants Dancing School (T>E>D>S) is the training services arm of Techvibes Global Services (www.techvibesglobal.com)
B2 b sales success with Dylis Guyan - international sales trainerDallas McMillan
Interview with Dylis Guyan - International Sales Trainer
http://digitalinfluence.com.au/b2b-sales-success-with-dylis-guyan/
Dylis Guyan has worked a top performing sales professional and sales leader during her early career. After an unexpected event changed her corporate career path, she set out on her own as an independent sales trainer and coach.
In this interview Dylis talks about what motivates her to help businesses improve their sales, how to find your ideal client, and how to approach sales so that clients are thrilled to buy.
Interview URL:
http://digitalinfluence.com.au/b2b-sales-success-with-dylis-guyan/
Video URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrUBweC3yPY
See more Digital Influence Interviews:
http://digitalinfluence.com.au/interviews
We all want interfaces that feel human—where the content is friendly and everything flows right along. But being human isn’t just about being breezy.
Every user who interacts with your site comes there with personal histories—with pain and problems, with past traumas or present crises. How can we take our users’ vulnerabilities, triggers, and touchy subjects into account when we don’t even know what they are? What would it mean to optimize not just for seamlessness, but for kindness? This talk discusses how clear intentions and compassionate communication can strengthen everything from form questions to headlines to site structures.
Outline for those that may need to hone their listening skills in dealing with management, peers, subordinates, family or anyone else for that matter. It talks about things to avoid, things to focus on and how to engage in conversation better with the other person.
The 8 vital checks that a non-profit communication should entail.
The Elephants Dancing School (T>E>D>S) is the training services arm of Techvibes Global Services (www.techvibesglobal.com)
B2 b sales success with Dylis Guyan - international sales trainerDallas McMillan
Interview with Dylis Guyan - International Sales Trainer
http://digitalinfluence.com.au/b2b-sales-success-with-dylis-guyan/
Dylis Guyan has worked a top performing sales professional and sales leader during her early career. After an unexpected event changed her corporate career path, she set out on her own as an independent sales trainer and coach.
In this interview Dylis talks about what motivates her to help businesses improve their sales, how to find your ideal client, and how to approach sales so that clients are thrilled to buy.
Interview URL:
http://digitalinfluence.com.au/b2b-sales-success-with-dylis-guyan/
Video URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrUBweC3yPY
See more Digital Influence Interviews:
http://digitalinfluence.com.au/interviews
Using the texts "The No Complaining Rule" and "How Full is Your Bucket," this presentation looks are the dangers of negativity and provides assistance to improvement feedback provision, workplace morale and social interactions.
Are you seriously committed to Succeed in Business?
Then go for 20 "NO's" a Day , 5 Days a Week for 6 Months...
Try it and you will see the difference.
http://bit.ly/I3mJWZ
Christian accountability-discussion-guideKen Gosnell
A great guide for accountability. Questions and personal evaluations that should be shared with a friend that will keep you on the right path towards top performance.
This presentation was created to train volunteers, new to fundraising, in the solicitation process. These particular volunteers are members of a V-Team, serving the V-Day 2009 campaign, and raising funds for the Chicago Women's Health Center.
How to Provide Customer Service via Social Media [the Right Way]Comnio
This is Ross Clurman's presentation from the 2016 Small Business Festival (during Small Business Week 2016) about how to provide customer service via social media (the right way).
10 Powerful Phrases For Positive People [Art of Being Positive]Pawan Kumar
Here are Ten Powerful Phrases for Positive People by Rich DeVos offers you the powerful potential of simple yet life-changing phrases. Your decision to live with a positive attitude can change your life, your community, even the world. Start today with just one small phrase
Library Customer Service Training often focuses on the ‘problem patron’. Disruptive patrons make up only a small portion of the customers served and every one of them has the potential to be labeled a ‘problem’. By labeling and creating policy and procedure around “ the exceptions” you sell the rest of your customers short and help create the so-called ‘problem patron’. Participants will:
Discover how they may be contributing to bad behaviors in the library
Learn how focusing on the behavior rather than the person changes the dynamic
Create a more inclusive vision of customer service that serves both patrons and staff
Today I would like to share my thoughts on the power of you believing in yourself. The foundation of all success is the awesome power believing in yourself and self-confidence.
Using the texts "The No Complaining Rule" and "How Full is Your Bucket," this presentation looks are the dangers of negativity and provides assistance to improvement feedback provision, workplace morale and social interactions.
Are you seriously committed to Succeed in Business?
Then go for 20 "NO's" a Day , 5 Days a Week for 6 Months...
Try it and you will see the difference.
http://bit.ly/I3mJWZ
Christian accountability-discussion-guideKen Gosnell
A great guide for accountability. Questions and personal evaluations that should be shared with a friend that will keep you on the right path towards top performance.
This presentation was created to train volunteers, new to fundraising, in the solicitation process. These particular volunteers are members of a V-Team, serving the V-Day 2009 campaign, and raising funds for the Chicago Women's Health Center.
How to Provide Customer Service via Social Media [the Right Way]Comnio
This is Ross Clurman's presentation from the 2016 Small Business Festival (during Small Business Week 2016) about how to provide customer service via social media (the right way).
10 Powerful Phrases For Positive People [Art of Being Positive]Pawan Kumar
Here are Ten Powerful Phrases for Positive People by Rich DeVos offers you the powerful potential of simple yet life-changing phrases. Your decision to live with a positive attitude can change your life, your community, even the world. Start today with just one small phrase
Library Customer Service Training often focuses on the ‘problem patron’. Disruptive patrons make up only a small portion of the customers served and every one of them has the potential to be labeled a ‘problem’. By labeling and creating policy and procedure around “ the exceptions” you sell the rest of your customers short and help create the so-called ‘problem patron’. Participants will:
Discover how they may be contributing to bad behaviors in the library
Learn how focusing on the behavior rather than the person changes the dynamic
Create a more inclusive vision of customer service that serves both patrons and staff
Today I would like to share my thoughts on the power of you believing in yourself. The foundation of all success is the awesome power believing in yourself and self-confidence.
Building true confidence is a gradual process. No one is going to turn into a positive, self-confident person overnight. Here is a powerful process to help guide you to take command of the life you deserve.
John Alan LeBihan Leadership PhilosophyAlan LeBihan
This document give you insight into how I think as a leader. What is important to me and what are things that people who work with and for me need to know about how I approach leadership. It includes non-negotiables that indicate behaviors and/or approaches that do not work for me
The Self-Empowerment Pledge includes seven simple promises that will change your life; this presentation shows you how to make those promises a part of your life.
My Success Story Essay
My Success In My Life
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Essay on Success: You can do it!
Why Is It Important To Be Successful?
Today I share my thoughts with you about discovering your talents in 2014. Discovering your talents does not mean this how you will make a living. It is about making time to do the things that you are good at doing and most importantly doing the things that make you feel fulfilled, purposeful and authentic.
The joy of giving and being able to support someone’s dream to have food and eat this holiday season has led to a sense of contentment that is indescribable. Today I share with you ways to ensure that you make a difference in 2014. If you want to make a difference in 2014 do the following:
• Create a domino effect
• Be you and be passionate about making a difference
• Accept your vulnerabilities and unlimited capacity
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Last Wednesday I delivered a speech titled “Success” to an enthusiastic group at the Centre of Education and Training in Brampton, Ontario. I opened my speech with the following quote:
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
And then I said success belongs to those:
a. with a clear vision and specific goals
b. willing to lose fear, willing take action and have a fierce desire and determination to succeed
c. who foster positive and meaningful relationships
Today I have decided to share with you a bit of my speech.
There are several factors that are the right foundation for success. Today I share three from my experience and hope to hear from you about other factors that you consider the key foundation for success.
One of my goals for 2014 is become a professional speaker. Today I share a little about my progress and success. I hope my story will be inspire you to accomplishing your dreams.
Today I share a little about caring for others. Care, compassion and kindness were virtues imparted on me by mother. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge provided me with a vehicle to share my mother’s legacy of caring with others.
Today I share some of my experience about being a small business owner. I talk about risks and uncertainties, being prepared for new opportunities and about surrounding yourself with a delightful team.
My daughter just returned from a recent trip to New Orleans to explore opportunities to continue her post-secondary training to become a pastry chef. Today I share some my text messages to her with the hope that you will share in the excitement of my wife and I as well as you may be inspired to dream and take actions to fulfill your goals.
Today I share with you my experiences of simple acts of kindness last Friday. I believe that through simple acts of kindness we are able to remain hopeful in humanity during period of despair and sadness.
To day I share my thoughts on great expectations. In this blog I share a little twist of fate on how agreeing to do a presentation on Bitcoin for one of our Top Banks may blossom into much more than I expected. Great expectations for achieving your dreams is about the power of believing in yourself. It is about walking away from naysayers and not allowing your fears to stop you.
Today I used my blog post on McKenzie's Voice to launch a campaign to help the homeless and hungry as I share my thoughts on five key attributes of effective and extraordinary leaders. My goal is to raise $2,000 for Regeneration’s Coldest Night of the Year Campaign by February 22, 2014. Commencing today, Monday, February 3, 2014 I will walk 2K daily, 5K on Saturday and Sundays and on February 22, 2014 I will walk and run 10K. However, I want to do a little more to test the attributes of effective and extraordinary leadership. To this end, I am committing to spend the entire night of February 22, 2014 outdoors in the cold in solidarity with the homeless.
As we approach the end of 2013, I encourage you to think possibilities and not impossibilities. In 2014, be prepared to turn the impossible into possible. Look at what you accomplished in 2013 especially what you once thought could never be done. Are you amazed you once thought it was impossible? In 2014, take some risks and be fearless, control the things you can control and think outside the box. Think possibilities and not impossibilities.
Today I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my family and all the members of Toastmasters Clubs in the cities of Brampton and Mississauga for their generous support and encouragement in making my Holiday Season Food Drive a resounding success. The joy of giving and supporting someone’s dream is indescribable and awesome but I could not have done it without you.
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Just a game Assignment 3
1. What has made Louis Vuitton's business model successful in the Japanese luxury market?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan?
3. What are the specifics of the Japanese fashion luxury market?
4. How did Louis Vuitton enter into the Japanese market originally? What were the other entry strategies it adopted later to strengthen its presence?
5. Will Louis Vuitton have any new challenges arise due to the global financial crisis? How does it overcome the new challenges?Assignment 3
1. What has made Louis Vuitton's business model successful in the Japanese luxury market?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan?
3. What are the specifics of the Japanese fashion luxury market?
4. How did Louis Vuitton enter into the Japanese market originally? What were the other entry strategies it adopted later to strengthen its presence?
5. Will Louis Vuitton have any new challenges arise due to the global financial crisis? How does it overcome the new challenges?Assignment 3
1. What has made Louis Vuitton's business model successful in the Japanese luxury market?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan?
3. What are the specifics of the Japanese fashion luxury market?
4. How did Louis Vuitton enter into the Japanese market originally? What were the other entry strategies it adopted later to strengthen its presence?
5. Will Louis Vuitton have any new challenges arise due to the global financial crisis? How does it overcome the new challenges?
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5 Tips for Facing Challenges in 2014
1. 5 Tips for Facing Challenges in 2014
My heartfelt condolences and prayer goes out to the families and friends of those who died in the fire at
Résidence du Havre in L’Isle-Verte in Quebec last week. Whenever tragedies such as this occur I usually
question the existence of God. Ultimately I accept that there are realities that lie beyond my
comprehension and accept such inexplicable mysteries with trustful humility. In the end I respond to
such tragedies with composure, quietness, respect and honour. May the souls of the senior citizens who
perished in the fire rest in peace and blessing shine on the survivors, families, friends, love ones and first
responders.
Last week I faced my own challenges too but itcannot be compared with the losses experienced by
those affected by the fire in Quebec. Few days ago Iwas hit with the bombshell news that I had lossan
important client that represented a large part of myconsulting practice revenue. For the past three years
I supported the client providing advice on technical matters and policy development. The client has
decided that they have now built sufficient capacity to fill the role internally. The client was awesomeas
a primary source of revenue and the work was extremely stimulating.
I knew from the beginning that my practice was overexposed due to the significant level of dependence
on the client. The brutal truth is my greatest fear is now a reality andI will now have to intensive my
search for other opportunities to replace the revenue hit. The departure of the client comes at the same
time when I am also feeling the negative effects of a rapidly declining Canadian dollar. In fact I was
speaking with a friend about my experience and he said to me “damn man you might be worth more
dead today than alive.”I strongly disagreed with him and since then I have taken some time to reflect on
how I will face challenges in 2014 which I will share with you today.
Challenges, setbacks and adversities are a part of our existence. Here are five tips to facing challenges in
2014:
Change negative into positive
In 2014, I will endeavour to change negative into positive. I will continue to pursue other areas of
interest to diversify my business. As I have posted in previous blogs in 2014 you have to make the
impossible possible, creating opportunities, discover new talents and exceed your potential. In my
case I am not going to over-analyse the loss of my client or other setbacks I might face this year. Rather
than trying to figure out why and see despair I am going to see opportunities and possibilities. I will
strive to be happy and I will remain calm and optimistic.
This week for example I will participate in two debates at the Mississauga Central Library on Thursday
January 30, 2014 at 6.30PM. I will be on side opposing the following motionsNewspapers are a thing of
the past and Cell phones should be banned from schools.By participating in these two debates I am
hoping to rekindle my passion for debating and develop my persuasive speaking skills. You too can seek
out ways to change a negative into a positive. Don’t dwell on the challenges you face instead look for
the positive and seek out new opportunities.
2. Rather than being in denial, accept your situation, let go and move forward
The reality is I cannot change the fact that the client has decided to move on. I also cannot be in denial
but rather I have to accept it, let go and move forward. I have to see this as an opportunity to truly
diversify my practice. I have to press forward with my plans to develop new products and services as
well as breaking into new markets. For example, Friday, January 31st I will a guest speaker in Mississauga
where I will deliver my Leaders Leave Legacy Workshop. I will also be a Target Speaker in Brampton.
These are specific actions I have taken to promote my professional speaking and coaching business.
The key for facing challenges is to acknowledge your vulnerabilities, imperfections and flaws. In my case
I have to accept that in some circumstances I have made mistakes. I have to accept that I am where I am
today. I realise I can’t change today but if I let go I can move forward. I have to let go of my fears
surrounding the loss and avoid apportioning blame or feelings of anger.
You too can get to this point. For example, if you believe someone has caused you pain or hurt you, you
have to be able to forgive. Remember "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the
future." - Paul Boese. To face challenges in 2014, rather than being in denial, I encourage you to accept
your situation, let go and move forward.
Get some reinforcement (have a support network)
A key strategy for me in dealing with challenges and setback is my support network. I have a wonderful
wife and beautiful children. I am very close with my brothers especially Peter McKenzie, an attorney in
New Jersey. We speak daily on the phone. I have people around me who are honest and frank with me.
They keep me in check and will not standby to let me spiral out of control like Toronto Mayor Rob Ford
or Justin Bieber. When faced with challenges you need a capable support network from which you can
get meaningful reinforcement and encouragement.
Face your fears, be decisive and take action
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond
measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be
brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Who are you not to be?” - Marianne Williamson from her book,
A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
As I have said repeatedly, I do not want to fail because of my inaction. The mistakes I make must be as a
result of my fierce determination and courage. In light of my recent loss, I now have to decide the best
approach for this situation and create a plan of action. I have to tackle this challenge with courage not
fear and above all I have to be decisive and take action.
You are awesome. You have to believe in yourself. Face your fears, be decisive and take action.
Practice gratitude
3. As I stated at the beginning the challenges I face pale in comparison to those who loss love ones in the
fire in Quebec. I am truly grateful for my life and the experiences I have had so far. As I noted in previous
posts on my blog, this year I have committed to volunteer at Regeneration Outreach Community in
Brampton. In February, I will be offering my time and skills to help in Regeneration Outreach Community
Coldest Night of the Year Fundraising Campaign. Giving back to the community is one way in which I
demonstrate my gratitude. If you are faced with challenges practice gratitude.
How will you face challenges in 2014?
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