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Today I listened to Why Happiness At Work Is Vital (Entreleadership Podcast) and one of the parts of the interview kicked my thinking into high gear: to maintain employee engagement when working on long term projects, it is vital to create a sense of accomplishment. Break big projects into meaningful chunks. As I listened, I remembered ...
Repetition is the Mother Of Learning (and mastering) English
It’s so tempting to focus on working through each unit in your course book. It feels great to work through the page and then turn it over to the next one. That’s how you efficiently finish off units in a course book, right? Right. That’s exactly how you finish off units in a course book. ...
English Tools>> How To Develop Your Listening Skills for Conference Calls
Hello, and welcome to another edition of English Tools. Today we’re going to continue looking into how you can improve your listening skills for Conference calls. Focus is KING. I don’t know anyone who actually enjoys participating in conference calls. Some calls are useful and maybe even helpful for you – but more often than ...
Teach With Impact: Cultivate Your Connections
Today started in a stressful way. I was racing to get myself and my two children out the door in time to get my boys to school, and me to my first class. Think: Tasmanian Devil. Spinning Blur. Weird and hard to understand speech. That’s me the first few hours of each day. Well today, I did ...
How To Teach With Impact
Do you know what your ‘Why‘ is as a teacher? As a person? What I mean by your ‘why’ is your PURPOSE. Have you thought about it? If you haven’t, or even if you have, I’d like to invite you to check this Ted Talk out. (You may need to hit refresh on your browser ...
How to Listen Actively in Telephone Conferences
Welcome to another mini edition of English tools! Listening to conference calls and actually understanding everything can be one of the most difficult challenges you can face. Sometimes even the thought of participating in an English only conference call can be enough to make you want to turn around and run the other way. But ...
How The ESL Industry Will Change (And Why You Should Care.)
Change is coming to the ESL industry, and your role as an ESL teacher is going to change. It might not be tomorrow. It might not be next week, or even next month or next year. But change will come. Do you believe this is true? If you do think it’s true, have you ever ...
English Tools>> How to Give a Great Conference Call in English
Hello and welcome to another edition of English Tools. Today’s topic comes from the short survey we invited you to help us with last week. If you want to give us your opinion about how we can best help you, just click here. (It will only take a few minutes.) Today’s Topic: How to Give ...
English Tools>> How to Increase Reading Skills in English
Hello, and welcome to another edition of English Tools Mini: Help for your English development in 300 words or less. 1. Join a reading group. A reading group reads the same book and chapters together. Then they get together to discuss the ideas presented in the book. The fact that you need to talk about ...
Share Hope.
I’m enjoying and being completely challenged by a few blog posts and a podcast that I would like to share with you today. It all revolves around the topic of VISION. You may think that vision is that mandatory section of a mission statement plaque on a company wall – something that people walk by, ...
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