Six Common Talking Mistakes

As much as we are taught to network in the business world, I find that people often make crucial errors when learning how to “work a room.”

Here are six of the most common ones:

1. Blabbermouthing. Talking too much. Going on and on without giving another person a turn. If you’re the one who hogs the talking platform you will soon frustrate others and they tune out the blabbermouth. If you are a blabbermouth who is wringing out the patience of other’s you will be labeled as such. Don’t be fooled. Just because your job requires you to speak for a living that everyone wants to hear your opinion on every subject. Professors, clergy, professional speakers who are all paid for a living pay special attention.

Iannarino’s Keep, Start, Stop Method

I would be remiss if I didn’t do the obligatory New Year motivational post. Here are some of S. Anthony Iannarino thoughts on how to start a new year off right. According to Iannarino, all you have to do is make three lists.

9 Ways To Eliminate Distractions In Your Legal Nurse Consulting Practice.

Working as a Legal Nurse Consultant is a major life change from that of working in the hospital environment. It requires a good deal of distraction free working and concentration on singular tasks which is not necessarily the similar to the harried and chaotic pace of nursing. Eliminating the number of distractions every day is mission critical to any successful Legal Nurse Consulting practice. One of the fundamental principles of productivity is that in order to get things done, you gotta focus. And that necessary focus requires that you eliminate as many distractions as possible — not always an easy task with the Internet, kids in summer break and busy phones calling to you from every direction make it tough.

Here’s how to block out the Siren’s call of distractions, in 9 steps.

First, let me say that there should be room in your life for distractions. Work should be fun, and without a few distractions, things can get boring. That being said, when it’s time to do a task, there’s no reason to do it while handling a million other things. (Like nurses are prone to do.) You’ll never get things done that way. When you’re ready to work on a task, block out all else, and really focus on it. Do your best on that task, and get it done as quickly as possible. Then reward yourself with distractions.

That’s all easier said than done, I know. So here are 9 of the best ways I’ve found to eliminate distractions and really focus on a task.