I spent today mucking about with design ideas for this website. I’ve been spending a lot of time with the design books I referred to in my last post, and I’ve decided design is a lot of fun. I’m toying with redesign ideas for the site, mostly to try to… Read More
Today I went into McGills Bookstore here in Melbourne and managed to find a book I’ve been looking for as a result of this thread over at MetaFilter. The book is The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams (no, not that Robin Williams). It is eleven different flavours of awesome.… Read More
This is part of a series on the Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course. The final week of the course found us all presenting one last time. The twist this time around was that the audience contained the entire class, as well as any guests they had invited. Not everyone brought… Read More
This is part of a series on the Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course. I did my make up session of week 3 of the course last night. It was a room of totally new people, but for one of the first times in my life, that didn’t bother me at… Read More
This is part of a series on the Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course. Week 10 brings us close to the end of course. We reported back on how we’d been applying the leadership principles from the previous week, to our small groups. We also gave a presentation designed to inspire… Read More
This is part of a series on the Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course. The important part of week 9 was about how to disagree with someone agreeably. Conflict is everywhere, and people often have different views on any given topic. You’ve probably been in an argument with someone about something,… Read More
This is part of a series on the Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course. Week 8 had two themes: Leadership, and Being More Flexible. Leadership is outlined by the last set of principles from How To Win Friends and Influence People, which is about the difference between leading and commanding. Leaders… Read More
This is part of a series on the Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course. Week 7 is a special week, and it was particularly special for me. Each week, we give reports on our progress with applying what we learn to our daily life. At the very beginning it was stressed… Read More
This is part of a series on the Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course. In week 6 we had to give a talk that teaches people something. We also needed to bring a prop, something to help illustrate what we were teaching. All our talks are around 2 minutes long, which… Read More
This is part of a series on the Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course. Week 5 was crazy antics week. I’m a bit hesitant to give much detail for fear of ruining it for others, but it’s the kind of thing you really need to experience to understand. We had two… Read More
