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Here is some advice that I often give to clients and friends (and to myself!), at different times. I hope you find them useful. See people eye to eye. Hear people with more than your ears. Talk to...
Initial Criteria for Writing Reports Writing Conventions: These are the basic parts of your writing: the spelling, punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure. Do errors make it hard to understand...
Hi folks, It’s been a while since my last update. I apologize for my tardiness. I have been quite busy with coaching, a presentation on PowerPoint repair, and setting up employee training courses at...
The most confident people are able to laugh. They laugh under stress, they laugh at jokes, even if they are not particularly funny (out of respect for the joke-teller – as long as they are not...
Halloween is almost upon us! I would like to take this opportunity to remind all the readers of this blog that even though the category is called ‘Speak English Better’, the blogs’...
HORSE: “Horsing around” – means to be fooling around, wrestling or playing physical games. Little kids are often told to stop this by parents. E.g. “You boys stop horsing...
“There are two types of competitive behavior. One is a sense of competition because you want to be at the top. You create obstacles and harm someone. That competition is negative. But there is a...
Canadian Thanksgiving – How It Began The origins of Canadian Thanksgiving are more closely connected to the traditions of Europe than of the United States. Long before Europeans settled in North...
Hello, Here is a tradition that I have always known and obeyed, yet I cannot say for sure if it is a Canadian-only tradition. I suspect not. When someone ‘toasts’ you (proposing a toast...