Dr Stephen Covey is a world renowned Business academic who questioned ‘what makes successful people successful?’ Fron his studies he produced a seminal best selling book called ‘. Covey’s book has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide since its first publication in 1989. Now, if you don’t want to read the whole thing, here is
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Personal Development Plan (PDP) – How to get where I want to be in business?
What is a PDP? A Personal Development Plan (PDP) is a useful way of defining what you expect from your own career over a fixed forthcoming period. Some people will use PDPs to help them get to where they want to be in five years whereas others may have a PDP stretching ahead only 12
What makes a great presentation?
Presenting is a key skill to develop as a graduate. There are many dynamics to a presentation, such as the content, body language and how you say it and we have looked at some of these aspects previously. However, some people are born presenters and thrive on being in the limelight and have a natural
Top 10 tips for using emails in business
Where were we before emails and how did businesses cope? Email is an integral part of the business world now and is usually the first thing people do when starting the working day and the last thing they do before going home. And most people have their email open all day dipping in and out
Document collaboration within a team – Top 5 tips
As a graduate, you will be expected to be up to date with some the latest technologies which can help improve productivity in the workplace. The focus of this article is to highlight some tools and applications which can help when collaborating on documents together as a team. Often there will be times when numerous
Conference Calls – Top 10 Tips
Conference calls were a new concept when I first joined a blue chip graduate program at a FTSE 100 company. It was a strange concept that I would be having daily calls with people across the UK and the globe but I wouldn’t be meeting any of them. I had never done a conference all
Great presentations: the importance of body language
There is no scientific definition around the key things to think about to make a great presentation but many studies show that only 7% of the message that the audience perceives comes from the words you use. 38% of the impact of your presentation is from your tone of voice and 55% is from your body language.
‘Three and a Half Laws’ for setting up your own business
A personal blog by Lisa, the founder of Gradvert.com and the pr | pa company Did you know that the largest majority of new businesses are determined by what domain names there are available? For me, coming up with ‘Gradvert’ was a novel process. Gradu8, Gradvantage and Graduate-to-Success were already taken, so, I got smart
