Organizing The Information Written by Sue and Chuck DeFiore
Putting a piece of paper in a file folder is easy; finding it again is hard part. There are ways to make your files easier to use and your papers easier to find. Invest in a sturdy, four or five-drawer file cabinet. Spend extra money it takes to get quality and durability. You’ll spend more money replacing a cheaper file cabinet a few times than buying a reliable one in beginning. You may not have enough files to fill cabinet now, but believe me, you’ll need it in future.Before you buy additional cabinets, weed out unnecessary files. The natural tendency is to buy more cabinets to hold papers you’ve accumulated. The more filing space you have, however, more tendency you have to keep unnecessary papers. Keep number of hanging file folders you use to a minimum. Rather than putting only one interior folder in each hanging folder, group three to five interior folders in each one and label hanging folder with main category. Minimize your paper files by using a scanner to store them electronically. There are hand-held, sheet-fed, flatbed and optical pen scanners available. You can even use a scanner to enter business cards into a contact management software program.
| | The Cat in the Hat" Will Help You Get Your Point Across! (Yes you can, here is the Plan)Written by Ed Sykes
I was recently coaching an engineer who wanted to improve his speaking skills. After videotaping him, we discussed his strong points and then his areas of improvement. Then we got to area of vocal variety. Vocal variety is quality of your speech that hold your audience. It is combination of pitch changes, pauses, inflection, rhythm, and loudness in your voice that adds "color" to any conversation or speech. I suggested he try Dr. Seuss's "The Cat in Hat." At that point he looked at me like I had a third eye. I then explained how "The Cat in Hat" could help anyone improve his or her speaking skills, especially vocal variety, and have fun doing it. Can you remember being read "The Cat in Hat" by your parents? What held your attention? What made you want to hear "The Cat in Hat" again and again? "The Cat in Hat" is set up so that you must use vocal variety to read story. It's vocal variety that held your attention. Here's how Dr. Seuss's "The Cat in Hat" can help you hold your audience's attention: 1. Buy Book My favorite Dr. Seuss books for this type of exercise are "The Cat in Hat" and "Green Eggs and Ham." You can go to any used bookstore and get a gently used copy of book at a substantial discount. You can also go to www.half.com and get book at more than 50% off price.
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