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Continue reading →: Keeping Your Audience Engaged During a Training
I found Anna in an empty connecting corridor between the two administrative buildings of the university. When she saw me, she threw herself on my shoulder and burst into tears. “I swear I did my best to prepare,” she sobbed. “I worked on that presentation all week after the previous…
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Continue reading →: Blowing on the Dice of Your Career
Earlier today, I was searching through Linkedin.com articles of my colleagues and ran across a quote which is frequently attributed to Mark Twain and which I’d read years ago– “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you…
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Continue reading →: What Can Bring Rocketing Start-Ups to Failure
You can’t give people more knowledge than they are willing to take. I came to this conclusion while working with university students years ago, and now I keep receiving validations to it every time I do coaching for IT start-ups. This note is about trying to understand why so many…
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Continue reading →: Knowledge Management: Yes or No?
When I opened a presentation and started showing it to my young colleagues, I could see nothing but surprise in their eyes. Those eyes asked: “What the heck, why did she waste her time making that presentation for a video piece from Youtube, when she could simply watch the video…
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Continue reading →: Internships vs General EducationThe biggest benefit of internships is, beyond doubt, the opportunity of gaining valuable work experience along with learning the basics of a certain profession. Unlike learning from coursebooks or classroom-based education, one acquires professional knowledge plus skills, plus a bit of experience, all in one. Internship lets you explore your…
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Continue reading →: A Smile That Can Win a Job Interview…
The video chat was not long: I needed an interpreter urgently, because the client was already waiting for my email proposal with a whole package of services. A good client, by the way, it would’ve been stupid to loose him. So, I didn’t have much time and I had to…
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Continue reading →: How To Read Body Language Signs in a Job Interview
The boy was wearing a snow-while shirt and an elegant grey suit, definitely from a very expensive store or fashion atelier. When he entered the classroom, I noticed that his shining black shoes were a bit too narrow to be comfortable (right in agreement with the latest fashion), so I…
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Continue reading →: Job Interview Tips: “Explain Why You Are Looking For a New Job”The dreadful “Why Do You Want to Work Here?” question has spoiled many careers and is continuing to do so. Quite often, candidates do not even realize that this particular question became one of the reasons why they were rejected. They answered it honestly and they never said anything negative…
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Continue reading →: English As a Part of Your Professional ImageIn the 21-st century, you can consider yourself a lucky person if you were born and raised in the English-speaking environment. But if you weren’t, you have no other option but to learn English from a scratch. In the recent decades English has cemented its status of an international language,…
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Continue reading →: Set Up Your Business in a Week
“Business opportunities are like buses, there is always another one coming.” Richard Branson Richard Branson has a unique talent of explaining complex things in a simple way, don’t you think? Looking at his quote, one is ready to believe that catching business opportunities is as easy as catching a bus.…
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