Download or read book Confidence Through Competence in Modern Language Learning written by Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen papers from six countries are included in this volume. Several have been translated from French or German. The papers are grouped as follows: (1) Creativity and Language Learning: "Creativity, Brain, and Language" (M. Bergstrom) and "Creativity and Interactional Competence in Foreign Language Learning" (E. Oksaar); (2) The Teacher and the Taught: "Learning to Communicate in a Foreign Language" (D. Girard); "The Teacher's Role in Communicative Teaching" (C. Brumfit); "Tailoring Teaching to the Pupils" (C. Edelhoff); and "Negotiating Language in Foreign Language Classroom" (C. Faerch); (3) Innovation and Language Teaching: "In Defense of Innovative Methods" (C. Parish) and "Music in Teaching French by Suggestopaedia" (L. Schiffler); (4) Computer-Assisted Language Learning:"A Linguist Looks at Computer-Assisted Instruction" (F. Karttunen) and "Micro-computers in Language Teaching" (A. Hagg); (5) Examinations and Testing: "Language Awareness, Communicative Competence, and Testing" (M. Luukkainen) and "Evaluating Speaking Ability" (R. Clifford); and (6) Conclusion: "Where Do We Go from Here?" (S. Takala). Appended is a one-page description of the International Federation of Modern Language Teachers (FIPVL). (LB)
Download or read book Confidence written by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This startling re-evaluation of the role of self-belief in success, from a leading professor of business psychology and based on the latest scientific research, explores why increasing your confidence is less important than building your competence.
Download or read book The Confidence Code written by Gary Caylor and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confidence Code: The Ultimate Guide About Building Self-Confidence, Learn the Effective Methods On How You Can Build and Master Confidence In Yourself to Win More in Life For many years now, there's been many programs that tried to promote self-esteem especially in students. The motivation behind this is that when self-esteem is cultivated at a young age, self-confidence will naturally follow and confidence would equal to success. But this does not seem to be the case because hollow self-esteem would not produce consistent victory and success. Instead, what one needs to focus on is competence. You need to be the best you can be in something and this is how you will become more confident in yourself not just in the short term but for the long haul. This book will help you learn about the relationship of competence and self-confidence. This will help you develop unstoppable self-confidence that can help you face any obstacles in life without any difficulty. In this book, the following topics will be discussed: The Problem With Moder Self-Esteem The Real Foundation of Self-Confidence: Competence Develop Real Self-Confidence Through Competence Setting Your Game Plan for Competence-Based Self-Confidence Start With Something You Already Do Well Allow Your Objective Competence to Become a Part of You Take Ownership of More Areas of Your Life Understand That Self-Confidence Can Be Limitless Make Sure There is No Disconnect Between Your Internal and External Confidence When you are able to be more competent on one particular thing, not only will it develop confidence in yourself but no one will be able to take that away from you. To learn more about how you can develop competence that will lead you to have unstoppable self-confidence, scroll up and click "add to cart" now.
Download or read book Convinced written by Jack Nasher and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competence does not speak for itself! You can't simply display it; you have to draw people's attention to it. World-renowned negotiation and deception detection expert, business professor, and mentalist Jack Nasher offers effective, proven techniques to convince others that we are talented, trustworthy, and yes, even brilliant. Nasher offers the example of Joshua Bell, possibly the world's most famous violinist. In January 2007, at rush hour, he stepped into a Washington, DC, subway station, dressed like any street busker, and began to play a $4,000,000 Stradivarius. It was part of an experiment staged by a journalist of the Washington Post, who expected Bell's skill alone to attract an immense, awed crowd. But Bell was generally ignored, and when he stopped, nobody applauded. He made $34.17. The good news is that you don't have to accept obscurity: you can positively affect others' perception of your talent. Whether you're looking for work, giving an important presentation, seeking clients or customers for your business, or vying for a promotion, Nasher explains how to use techniques such as expectation management, verbal and nonverbal communication, the Halo Effect, competence framing, and the power of nonconformity to gain control of how others perceive you. Competence is the most highly valued professional trait. But it's not enough to be competent, you have to convey your competence. With Nasher's help you can showcase your expertise, receive the recognition you deserve, and achieve lasting success.
Download or read book 5 Steps To Professional Presence written by Susan Bixler and published by Adams Media. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put Your Best Self Forward In a world where change is constant, building business relationships quickly is key. Professional presence can help you stand out in the crowd of e-mails, voicemails, business meetings, and social occasions. It offers a personal style that projects your competence, credibility, and confidence—whether you are in person or in cyberspace. 5 Steps to Professional Presence offers a proven system that has been used by over 1,500 corporations since 1980. Step One: Make a powerful first impression using the essential components that convey trust, rapport, and connection. Step Two: Use nonverbal communication to maintain the first impression and create a lasting one. Step Three: Master high tech communication—e-mail, voicemail, and wireless—where the first impression usually begins. Step Four: Avoid no-win business situations with grace and savvy. Step Five: Develop the social skills you need to make the most of corporate outings, business meals and parties, and networking events.
Download or read book Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders written by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look around your office. Turn on the TV. Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there's no denying that most of these leaders are men. In this timely and provocative book, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic asks two powerful questions: Why is it so easy for incompetent men to become leaders? And why is it so hard for competent people--especially competent women--to advance? Marshaling decades of rigorous research, Chamorro-Premuzic points out that although men make up a majority of leaders, they underperform when compared with female leaders. In fact, most organizations equate leadership potential with a handful of destructive personality traits, like overconfidence and narcissism. In other words, these traits may help someone get selected for a leadership role, but they backfire once the person has the job. When competent women--and men who don't fit the stereotype--are unfairly overlooked, we all suffer the consequences. The result is a deeply flawed system that rewards arrogance rather than humility, and loudness rather than wisdom. There is a better way. With clarity and verve, Chamorro-Premuzic shows us what it really takes to lead and how new systems and processes can help us put the right people in charge.
Download or read book The Confidence Code written by Katty Kay and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of Lean In and Why Women Should Rule the World, the authors of the bestselling Womenomics provide an informative and practical guide to understanding the importance of confidence—and learning how to achieve it—for women of all ages and at all stages of their career. Working women today are better educated and more well qualified than ever before. Yet men still predominate in the corporate world. In The Confidence Code, Claire Shipman and Katty Kay argue that the key reason is confidence. Combining cutting-edge research in genetics, gender, behavior, and cognition—with examples from their own lives and those of other successful women in politics, media, and business—Kay and Shipman go beyond admonishing women to "lean in."Instead, they offer the inspiration and practical advice women need to close the gap and achieve the careers they want and deserve.
Download or read book The Great Mental Models Volume 1 written by Shane Parrish and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the essential thinking tools you’ve been missing with The Great Mental Models series by Shane Parrish, New York Times bestselling author and the mind behind the acclaimed Farnam Street blog and “The Knowledge Project” podcast. This first book in the series is your guide to learning the crucial thinking tools nobody ever taught you. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. The Great Mental Models: Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts shows you how making a few tiny changes in the way you think can deliver big results. Drawing on examples from history, business, art, and science, this book details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making and productivity. This book will teach you how to: Avoid blind spots when looking at problems. Find non-obvious solutions. Anticipate and achieve desired outcomes. Play to your strengths, avoid your weaknesses, … and more. The Great Mental Models series demystifies once elusive concepts and illuminates rich knowledge that traditional education overlooks. This series is the most comprehensive and accessible guide on using mental models to better understand our world, solve problems, and gain an advantage.
Download or read book Self confidence Giant s written by Kevin Brown and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking the Self-Confidence Giant Code Self-Confidence Giant presents: 10 Principles for Transformational Self-Confidence: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs and Business Executives, a system of principles and strategies that produce Personal Development, Peak Performance and Goal Achievement. It is the skillset and competence of completing goals on a consistent basis that equates to personal-development, peak-performance and goal-achievement. Self-Confidence is a tool of success? The first phase in developing self-confidence is having a vision, a mission and a purpose. Your first primary function is to have faith in God, then believe in yourself. You must also possess the ability to think forward and follow through despite roadblocks along the way. As former basketball coach Phil Jackson put it, "I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly, your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor." Vision, Mission, and Purpose is the first Phase of Confidence There can be no supplement for genuine self-confidence and there is nothing more credible than assurance. However, it is a myth that most people understand they have strength when it comes to confidence. Most people don't know how to get or keep confidence. For instance, as a life coach and personal trainer I see people asking me to confirm them all the time. I work with people who have confidence with making million dollar deals every day, but are shy at parties. I see others who are confident when asking someone on a date, but may be nervous at a job interview. Understanding Your Strengths Competence, strangely enough, bears little relationship to confidence. The fact that you do your job extremely well does not, by itself, ensure that you are also confident of your abilities. It is only when you are aware of your competence that you become confident. One of the key strengths that we will talk about later is the ability to persevere when things get tough. Life is great when everything is going well, but what will be our actions when things become difficult? People at the top persevere with Self-Confidence all the time I'd like to give some tips to raise your confidence. First, think of past successes that helped you drive development and improved performance in a project. Secondly, physical health: Regular exercise makes your immune system strong and well equipped to fight various diseases and infections. As you remain disease free, there is a sense of self-importance. Third, keep your focus. Don't get side tracked with life. Confidence is tied to goals. When you complete your goals you're focused. When you are all over the place with your life, your confidence is down and your goals are not being accomplished. Finally, embrace the process of success and failure, it's worth it. Oprah Winfrey was fired from her first television job as an anchor in Baltimore, where she said she faced sexism and harassment. But Winfrey rebounded and became the undisputed queen of television talk shows before amassing a media empire. Today she is worth an estimated $2.9 billion, according to Forbes. There was a study done at Manchester Business School in the U.K., which found that male business students thought they deserved to earn $80,000 a year, while women thought they deserved only $60,000. Women have less faith in their earnings vs. men. Women effectively believe they are 25% less valuable than men. Don't underestimate yourself. Oprah didn't allow someone else to determine her value, and neither should you.
Download or read book 10 Braver written by Vivienne Porritt and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The must-have guide for women in education, written by leading members of the grassroots #WomenEd movement, offering guidance on how to attain and succeed in leaderships positions, alongside nuanced analysis and debate of topics including: the gender pay gap, gender stereotyping in schools and beyond, the realities experienced by BME leaders and how flexible working cultures can redress inequities.
Download or read book Learner Centered Innovation written by Katie Martin and published by Impress, LP. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we tell kids to complete an assignment, we get compliance. When we empower learners to explore and learn how to make an impact on the world, we inspire problem solvers and innovators.
Download or read book THE POWER OF SELF CONFIDENCE written by Owen Nwanebu and published by Owen Nwanebu. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Self-Confidence! Self-confidence helps you accomplish extraordinary levels of success and happiness that make you unstoppable. Most successful people have incredible levels of self-confidence. They have the confidence to take whatever steps are necessary to enjoy a higher standard of living for themselves and their families. They approach every situation with poise and self-assurance. They feel unshakable self-confidence as they go after everything and anything they want in life. They have the self-confidence to take practical action on their dreams and goals; hence they are successful. Build your self-confidence using the strategies I have shared in this book and begin to live a life of your choice!
Download or read book The Soft Skills of Leadership written by Wanda S. Maulding Green and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much like Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, Maulding-Green and Leonard have, in Leadership Intelligence: The Journey to Your True North, postulated a theory regarding the age old question, ‘are leaders born or are leaders made?’ This theory is predicated on the idea that there is a genetic predisposition toward leadership via the vehicle of imprinting. The five critical factors which undergird the tenets of Leadership Intelligence, are delineated and developed through the lens of the soft skills of a leader. There is further clarification as to why some leaders seem to have ‘a greater intensity’ of these factors than their peers. To aid the reader in relating to the theory, a conceptual model based on a GPS is threaded throughout each chapter interweaving both examples and understandable content. The model relates keeping the organization moving in a true north fashion. The final chapters reveal how a leader can develop or enhance these skills and how he/she can avoid leadership derailment, due to neglecting them.
Download or read book Be Your Customer s Hero written by Adam Toporek and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the front lines of customer service, every day presents new and unexpected challenges—and even the most dedicated employees can be caught unprepared. They need confidence. They need training. They need help. Those who work on the front lines of customer service never know what new and unexpected challenges await them each day. But they do know one thing--they will be needed. But how can you prepare for the unexpected? How can customer service reps get the training and confidence required to tackle the unknown? In Be Your Customer’s Hero, internationally recognized customer service expert Adam Toporek provides the answers to preparing for the surprises awaiting the CSR. Through short, simple, actionable advice, in quick, easy-to-read chapters, this invaluable guide shows customer-facing CSRs how to: Achieve the mindset required for Hero-ClassTM service Understand the customer’s expectations--and exceed them Develop powerful communication skills Avoid the seven triggers guaranteed to set customers off Handle difficult and even irrational customers with ease Armed with the tools and techniques in Be Your Customer’s Hero, you will have all they need to transform themselves into the heroes their customers need.
Download or read book Perfectly Confident written by Don A. Moore and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert on the psychology of decision making at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business helps readers calibrate their confidence, arguing that some confidence is good, but overconfidence can hinder growth. A surge of confidence can feel fantastic—offering a rush of energy, even a dazzling vision of the future. It can give us courage and bolster our determination when facing adversity. But if that self-assurance leads us to pursue impossible goals, it can waste time, money, and energy. Self-help books and motivational speakers tell us that the more confident we are, the better. But this way of thinking can lead to enormous trouble. Decades of research demonstrates that we often have an over-inflated sense of self and are rarely as good as we believe. Perfectly Confident is the first book to bring together the best psychological and economic studies to explain exactly what confidence is, when it can be helpful, and when it can be destructive in our lives. Confidence is an attitude that takes into account both personal feelings and the facts. Don Moore identifies the ways confidence behaves in real life and raises thought-provoking questions. How optimistic should you be about an uncertain future? What justifies your confidence in something amorphous and subjective like your attractiveness or sense of humor? Moore reminds us that the key to success is to avoid being both over- and under-confident. In this essential guide, he shows how to become perfectly confident—how to strive for and maintain the well-calibrated, adaptive confidence that can elevate all areas of our lives.
Download or read book Confidence written by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Ph.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I can’t remember the last time I finished reading a book and wanted to applaud…. Life-changing.”—Heidi Grant Halvorson, PhD, author of Focus If you picked up this book because you want to increase your confidence, you are not alone. Like most people, you probably think that being highly confident would make you more likable, more employable, and more successful. But you’d be wrong. In this paradigm-shifting book, world-renowned personality expert Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic reveals that, beyond making you feel good, high confidence has no genuine benefits, and it may even be self-destructive. Low confidence, however, helps us make realistic risk assessments, protects us from disastrous situations, and encourages us to become more competent—which is the real key to achievement. Intelligent and thought-provoking, Confidence shows you how to make your insecurities work for you in every facet of life. “Maybe you have always intuited…that all the talk about boosting self-confidence and raising self-esteem is not the answer to success or happiness. This charming and thoroughly fact-based book will give you the evidence to back your wisdom, that being kind and competent works best.”—Elaine Aron, PhD, author of The Highly Sensitive Person and The Undervalued Self
Download or read book Confidence written by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and published by Hudson Street Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're told that the key to success in life and business is confidence: believe in yourself, and the world is your oyster. But building confidence can be a challenging task. And, as leading psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic argues confidence can actually get in the way of achievement - self-esteem is nothing without the competence, the core skills, to back it up. Confidence is feeling capable. Competence is being capable. None of the figures whose success is put down to supreme self-belief - Barack Obama, Madonna, Muhammad Ali - could have achieved their goals without the hard-won skills (and years of training) behind the confidence mask. Successful people are confident because of their success, and not the other way around. Whether you want to improve your social skills, get a promotion or that all-important first job, this game-changing exploration of how to build success, in the mould of Robert Cialdini's Influence, Susan Cain's Quiet and Steven Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, will change the way you think about achievement.
