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One strategy that lends itself to interview for technical posts is the demonstrate to and tell tactic. In this article we will go through how you could use this specific strategy in your own job interview

The foundation of this technique lies in the finding that interview boards are more moved by candidate showing them what they have done – which thereby shows the ownership and use of the essential and desirable skills – than by simply telling the job interview panel that “I am a good team player” and “I am have good communcation skills”, etc

Should the opportunity arise, you should be prepared to present to the job interview panel an example of your work to back up the thought that you possess the skill set necessary to excel at the job. In order to do this you need to be able to

1. Get them to ask You for Your Work

2. Show Off Your Work

To set up the play, try to raise the opportunity by using one of the following language patterns:

• If you’re interested I could demonstrate to you…
• If you wanted to know more, I have the (report) with me right here…
• If it would be appropriate, you could have a look at…
• I have a written precis of the project here, if you wanted to see it…
• If it would help…

You also need to be able to display your work at the interview. In order to do this, pick out one or two projects that you could use for this strategy. Choose the projects that

• have work already in a written or electronic form
• that display the most appropriate skill set for the post that you are applying for
• with a high probablity of usage for your job interview

Anticipate which questions could fall out from the interview panel, after they have scan your report for the first time and with no real warning. You could ask a friend or colleague to quickly peruse your project work and let you know what questions naturally follow from their minds.

You may also want to look at leaving a copy of this work with them to review at their leisure. Ensure that it is well presented and looks professional. It will help them remember you when they are going through their post interview discussion of the several candidates

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Although it’s true that most successful people spend more time working to achieve their goals than others, there are many people who work hard, but don’t accomplish the success they want. How come? What’s the big difference? Why would one hard worker succeed and another hard worker fail to accomplish their goal?

An even better question is how can someone who doesn’t work hard succeed? Is that possible? Can you work smarter, not harder and still enjoy the rewards of success?

I say “yes.” And here’s how.

People who succeed generally like, or even love, their work. Often they put more hours into accomplishing results and it doesn’t even feel like work. It feels like they’re doing what they really want to be doing. It feels like play.

So you begin being smarter by choosing “work” you enjoy. Choose something that gives you lots of satisfaction in return for your actions. Being happy doing what you’re doing makes you more productive.

The next smart move is to base your time management on priorities. The better you get at choosing your priorities on a yearly, weekly, daily basis, the smarter you will be and the faster you can produce results.

We all know people who constantly spin their wheels. They work hard and they’re very very busy, but they never seem to get anywhere. Sometimes these people even like their work, but they somehow just don’t seem to get much pay-off for all the effort they put into it. This problem is caused by poor time management and the lack of setting valid priorities.

How do you improve your ability to set good priorities? It takes practice. And, first of all, you must have clear goals and your goals must be prioritized. You do this by listing your goals in order of what’s most important to you. This is a constant process, because your priorities can change.

Once you have prioritized your goals, you must choose the actions you’re going to take to reach those goals. So the second step is to make a list of things to do. You’ll need to do this every week, every day and whenever you’re feeling confused about what to do next.

Step number three is to prioritize your actions. When you do this, keep the 80/20 rule in mind. The 80/20 rule shows you how, out of a list of ten actions, only approximately 20% (two out of ten) will be of major importance to accomplishing your goal. 80%, or eight of the ten things on your list, will only give you 20% of the value, whereas just 20%, or two things out of the list of ten, will provide a whopping 80% of the value.

Choosing priorities is essential to working smarter. Often your top priority actions will be the most confronting. So, if you neglect to prioritize your list, your tendency will be to avoid the most important actions you need to take in order to reach your goal. You naturally avoid these because they’re the most difficult. But that’s not smart. Avoiding your priority activities causes you to have to work harder and longer to achieve the results.

Like I said, choosing good priorities takes practice. So you’ll want to follow these three steps on a daily basis. Each time you do it, you’ll get better and better at the art of setting priorities. And setting good, clear priorities is the best way for you to become more successful faster. It’s the way to work smarter, not harder.

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“When we do something we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing. ~ Wayne Mullen

Cold air slips through the cracks in my doorway and around my windows. My cats lie curled up in balls; asleep on plump pillows. They hibernate most days now and only awaken from their dreamy slumbers for bites of kibble. They are unaware of our troops in the Middle East or our economy problems here at home.

What sustains you during tough times? Do you have a network of support? What are the things that comfort you when life seems to be filling your plate with more of the things you find unappetizing? Now is the perfect time to focus on simple daily rituals and pleasures as we live through more turbulent days ahead. Let’s call these, recipes for rapture.

Every good recipe must include the right ingredients. Perhaps, it’s buying flowers each week to put in your home or, on your desk at work. Most grocery stores have flowers available and you can include these weekly flowers as part of the menu for “feeding” your spirit. Maybe, it’s taking a break from watching the news or reading the newspaper. Instead, listen to some music that you find particularly soothing. Try keeping a dream journal to capture your dreams or create a personal altar in the corner of a room. You can mix and match ‘ingredients’ according to your particular taste. The key is to create a recipe that is authentically soul-satisfying to you. For me, its cups of tea, a daily walk, and watching birds at my window feeder.

Or, be like cats. Take long naps. Choose the most comfortable and warmest of spots; preferably in sunshine and curled up next to someone. Stretch daily and, when it’s warm enough, go outside for a little fresh air. Watch birds for entertainment. Play everyday. Make sure you have lots of toys available. Get a good cat scratch especially along the back.

To create a ‘purrrrfect’ life fill yours with plenty of simple pleasures and daily rituals that bring you comfort and joy.

About The Author

Nancy Bishop is a Life Coach, Writer and Speaker. She blends her passion for tea with life coaching to help busy women catch their breath and connect with their heart to restore balance naturally. For more information, or, to subscribe to her free monthly newsletter, visit her website at www.yourlifeyourway.com.

Playing Our Part:

Sir Michael Costa was conducting a rehearsal, in which the orchestra was joined in a great chorus. About half way through the session, with the trumpets blaring, drums rolling, and violins singing their rich melody, the Piccolo player muttered to himself, “What good am I doing? I might as well not be playing. Nobody can hear me anyway!” So he placed his instrument to his lips but made no sound. Within moments the conductor cried, “Stop! Stop! Stop! Where is the Piccolo?” Although it’s sometimes hard to see, it’s true that often the smallest and seemingly least important instrument can make the greatest contribution. So it is with our life.

I have worked for the past twenty years advising and assisting people to find their personal and corporate vision. My instrument is the capacity to support others in the journey of discovering vision; vision in life and vision in business!
As a coach, we have an awesome privilege and are in a unique position to play our part. For all of us, our performance isn’t complete until we do our best with what we have. This requires vision!

Defining Vision:

“An informed bridge from the present to the future”
“Seeing the invisible and making it visible”
“Sanctified dreams” -Gerge Barna
“Vision for purpose is a clear mental image of a preferable future”.

Vision is the filter by which all other decisions are made and as such it must be owned, because it will take you beyond anything you have experienced before. Vision can be distinguished within your personal mission or your corporate purpose.

It’s specific and so can’t be all things to all people. If you try to make it so, you usually end up betraying your vision.

As a coach, my primary responsibility is to positively facilitate people through transition.From childhood to adolescence, adolescence to adulthood, from singleness to partnership, unemployment to employment, from sickness to wholeness, from crisis to resolve, failure to success, from poverty onto prosperity.

How can any of us face such daily challenges without a vision of the preferable outcome?

Identifying and prioritizing your vision has to be the best response to self-doubt. It empowers you with it’s purpose and direction – it becomes your compass and your map!

“A person’s visionary capacity will determine the outcome!”

Organisations led by people without a clear mental vision often experience symptoms of frustration within and a slowing down of momentum. They have no compass or map and as such, sometimes attract individuals that are happy to remain lost.

On the other hand, an organisation that has established its core values and vision will actually attract visionaries to it.

The buy in factor for visionaries – people who have force within, compelling forward momentum – goes way beyond natural circumstances and into the realm of values. The value you get out of vision is priceless. The amazing thing about defining and developing vision is that it is never impoverished. It will reward in the end, way beyond your expectations. What value would you put on the potential of vision within your organisation?

Vision is the awakening of our life’s purpose and is the force that compels us forward. It attracts people of similar spirit. It will empower you and overcome obstacles.

It stands for something, rather than falling for anything!

Coaching provides one of the greatest avenues to develop vision, accountability, encouragement and empowering questions, all serve to build strategies for vision.

As well as a wealth of free downloads online, many of the books I have written are on sale via the website – and a variety of Coaching options are all there, at your service, to build your vision.

Tony Mckeown is a personal life coach and director of coaching 4 life New Zealand. He has a passion for empowering people to find their life mission and purpose. He has authored training manuals, motivational articles, numerous e-books and regularly hosts international tele-classes and conferences on vision.

He produces a monthly newsletter “get a life”, and provides free downloads from his coaching site: http://www.coaching4life.net.nz

I don’t know many people who would admit to wanting to ruin themselves, but there are a lot of people who are doing everything they can to accomplish that very goal. They certainly don’t see it that way, but if you look at the way they live, you can see it happening.

I knew a man who was very strict on his daughter. This strictness was more than simple discipline. He felt he had to control every part of her life. And, of course, he never liked any of her boyfriends. While his daughter was young he could get away with being an “all controlling” parent.

The sad part of this was that he thought he was being a good parent. It is certainly every parent’s responsibility to protect and discipline their children. But it must always be for the purpose of helping them grow up to make good decisions on their own – not simply to dominate.

As will happen in every case, there came a time when the girl grew old enough to get out from under the dominance of her dad and make her own way. When she did, she ended up marrying the very kind of guy her dad despised. Not only that, but the resentment that had built up in her life caused her to move away from him and not even speak to him for years at the time.

Now, I don’t know whether or not she consciously did all of this for spite, but the result was that her dad was devastated. In spite of his wrong actions and attitudes, he still loved his daughter very much, and the years of alienation were a torture that ruined his health and other areas of his life as he let it “get to him.”

This father did a destructive thing, in his parenting. But parenting is not the only place that this happens. Many people do it in other areas of life and the result is the same – personal ruin. It happens when individuals try to live another person’s life for them. Whether it is as a parent, an employer, a spouse, or any other relationship you operate in, you cannot live another person’s life for them. This is probably the fastest ways to self-ruin that exists on the planet today.

The same problem is all too common in the workplace. When a boss or supervisor tries to micro manage a person to the point of controlling every little action, it creates rebellion. The person will try to sabotage the authority figure, or will quit. This puts the one who is trying to be in control in a position of always struggling to keep the other person in their place. After a point, fatigue sets in and things begin to spiral out of control.

Here is the problem. The nature of human beings is such that each person has the ability and the internal drive to exercise their own free will. People will go to almost any extreme to accomplish it. Families have been destroyed, companies have been bankrupted, and wars have been fought, all in the name of achieving freedom.

Why not take a different approach. Instead of trying to control people, simply define the parameters that need to exist for the organization to run smoothly, and allow people to make their own way within those limits. Instead of generating rebellion, this will make a person feel appreciated and respected. It will make them appreciate and respect you, in return.

If you want things to be different in your life, then don’t look to see how you can go about changing others. Look for ways to change yourself. You simply can’t go inside of another person’s head and change them. Try and you will destroy yourself. But you can do things to change yourself. Then, instead of ruin, you will find the growth and fulfillment you are looking for.

About The Author

Dr. Freddy Davis is the owner of TSM Enterprises and conducts conferences, seminars and organizational training for executives, managers and sales professionals to help develop greater effectiveness and productivity. He is the author of the book Supercharged! as well as the Nutshell Series of books for strengthening business. You can visit the TSM website at www.tsmenterprises.com, or you can contact Freddy directly at 888-883-0656 or davis@iname.com.

Copyright © 2006 Jeff Griswold, Effective Learning Systems,
Inc.

To a large extent, your happiness and your success in life is
determined by the thoughts you hold in your subconscious mind.
Positive affirmations are powerful statements that are used to
build a positive internal dialog. By consistently repeating
positive affirmations to yourself, you create positive
subconscious thoughts. These new, positive, productive thoughts
will replay automatically throughout your life. Each time they
replay, they’ll reinforce the new positive inner-image you have
of yourself and your life in general. By replacing old, negative
thinking with new, positive subconscious thoughts you’ll be able
to access the endless resources of positive energy you have
within yourself. And you’ll be able to create a new, positive
reality for yourself.

When you use positive affirmations, let yourself really feel
them. Fully experience each one. Enjoy them. Assume each
affirmation to be true in your physical reality. Feel the
positive emotions that are appropriate for this positive
reality. This will help you make positive changes more quickly
and automatically.

At the end of this report you’ll find dozens of carefully
chosen, time-tested, positive affirmations that will help get
you started. Select those that you think will be most helpful.
Write them down, carry them with you, and use them often. Get
into the habit of saying them while you’re doing routine things
such as brushing your teeth or washing your hands.

Maximize the Benefits of Using Positive Affirmations

The following two nuggets of advice will help you maximize the
benefits of using positive affirmations:

1.Use the affirmations frequently. It’s one thing to know about
affirmations and use them occasionally. It’s quite another thing
to use them regularly everyday for at least 30 days. Dr. Maxwell
Maltz in his book “Psycho Cybernetics” asserted that it usually
takes 21 days to make any perceptible change in one’s mental
image. For some people it takes a bit longer. That is why you
should use them frequently for at least 30 days.

2.You must continue to actively “eject” the negatives you
experience daily. If you use affirmations occasionally, but
allow negatives to dominate your thoughts throughout the day,
any progress you make will be quickly negated. So, if you find
yourself thinking a negative thought, consciously “eject” that
thought and replace it with one of your favorite positive
affirmations.

Start Using Positive Affirmations Today

Using positive affirmations correctly is one important step to
changing your subconscious thoughts and changing your life for
the better. But most of us need assistance in doing this
properly and consistently. Many people find that listening to
audio programs (like those available at http://www.efflearn.com) is
the best way to provide the consistency that’s needed to develop
new, healthy, positive thought habits. In addition to positive
affirmations, the best audio programs will incorporate a variety
of techniques including guided visualizations, mental imagery,
goal-oriented meditation, subliminal programming, whole-brain
learning, and more.

So, employ whatever resources you need to start using positive
affirmations consistently — whether it’s an audio program or
help from your friends or family. Be confident that you can take
steps to improve your life.

Examples of Positive Affirmations

Here are dozens of powerful, time-tested affirmations to help
you overcome negativity in many areas of life. Repeat these
affirmations to yourself (out loud or silently). Or use an audio
program (like those available at http://www.efflearn.com) to
help you develop new, healthy, positive thought habits.

Total Relaxation

How to Attract Money

Super Strength Weight Loss

Super Strength Self-Esteem

Becoming Totally Positive…Auto-matically

Develop a Super Memory…Auto-matically

TOTAL RELAXATION

* I feel calm and relaxed.

* I breathe slowly and deeply.

* With each breath I become more relaxed.

* I breathe as a calm relaxed person.

* I feel completely carefree.

* I am free of worldly cares.

* I am free of unwanted stress.

* It is healthy and wise to let go and relax.

* I choose to enjoy this moment.

* I feel very positive and confident.

* I feel so peaceful and calm.

* I feel so comfortable.

* I feel like smiling.

* I am smiling.

* I am happy and content – and so relaxed.

HOW TO ATTRACT MONEY

* I project wealth and good fortune to each person I meet.

* Large amounts of money are coming to me.

* Money flows to me easily and naturally, just as the waves
flow into the shore.

* I deserve great sums of money and use it to help myself and
others.

* I am putting more loving energy into my work and this is
providing me with a larger and larger income.

* The more money I have the more money I have to give.

* I am like a magnet to money.

* It is attracted to me.

* My financial worth increases every day regardless of what I
do.

* I am learning and growing every day which makes me more
valuable to the world.

* Money is always circulating freely in my life and there is
always a surplus.

* Every dollar I spend circulates, enriches the economy and
comes back to me multiplied.

* I see money as a useful tool.

* The more money I have, the more money I can use to help
myself and others.

SUPER STRENGTH WEIGHT LOSS

* I love myself as I am, regardless of weight.

* I eject negative thoughts.

* I choose to be slim and healthy.

* I now see myself as being slim and healthy.

* Everyday I get more control of my weight.

* My thoughts influence my body.

* I eject any negative thoughts about my body.

* I choose to think positively about my body.

* My beliefs create my physical reality.

* I now believe and I know that I control my weight.

* My new reality includes my ideal weight and shape.

* In my mind I am now slim, healthy and attractive.

* My physical reality is quick to follow.

* I shall attain and maintain my ideal weight.

SUPER STRENGTH SELF-ESTEEM

* I am at peace with myself.

* I accept myself.

* My self-esteem is growing daily.

* I love the real me.

* I’m happy being who I am.

* All I have to be is me.

* My life is meaningful.

* My life is important.

* I now make good use of my life.

* I’ll now be the best me I can be.

* I don’t have to be perfect; I just choose to be perfectly me.

* I now recognize my talents and skills.

* I feel good about myself.

* I feel better each moment.

* I’m happy being me.

* The more I accept and love myself, the more I can accept and
love others.

BECOMING TOTALLY POSITIVE…AUTO-MATICALLY

* I now eject negativity.

* I now control my thoughts.

* I now control my feelings.

* I’m building a storehouse of positive energy.

* I’m storing positive thoughts.

* I’m storing positive images.

* I am in charge of my mind.

* I am in charge of my life.

* I choose to be positive.

* I am positive.

* I have great potential and I’m going to use it.

* Every day life gets better & better.

* I expect good things to happen.

* I see something positive in all situations.

* I turn negatives into positives.

* I am totally positive.

DEVELOP A SUPER MEMORY…AUTO-MATICALLY

* Each day I tell myself I have a great memory.

* I have confidence in my memory.

* My memory improves every day.

* I replace negatives with positives.

* I easily remember anything of importance.

* My memory is well organized.

* I record information easily and naturally.

* My memory retrieval system is excellent.

* I am now good with names.

* I learn and recall names easily.

* I can remember names

* I do remember names.

* I am now proud of my memory.

* My mind is sharp.

* My memory for names is great.

* I enjoy remembering names.

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