Crash Course
How to Sell Anything: Crash Course Entrepreneurship
It can be hard to strike the right tone or know what’s going to appeal to someone, but there are tricks. We can craft a narrative and use well-placed emotional appeals to tell customers a story. Even if you don’t consider yourself a...
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The Secret to Business Writing: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills
In business, you need to know how to write. And that involves learning a bunch of things like knowing who you're writing to and what kind of thing you're writing. In this episode of Crash Course Business Soft Skills, Evelyn talks to us...
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Top 12 Non-Technical Skills that a Project Manager Needs
It's not enough to know all the technical Project Management skills. To succeed, you need a load of non-technical skills too. Here are my top 12. First, by non-technical, I mean skills that are not the key PM skills like scheduling, risk...
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How to Make Your Message Memorable
When you communicate with your team or with your stakeholders, you must surely want to make your message memorable. But how? Here are 5 techniques, based on solid psychology. When you communicate with your stakeholders, your ideal...
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Top 10 Ways to Inspire Your Stakeholders and Team
Whether you are leading a project team, engaging your stakeholders, or building your reputation, finding ways to inspire the people around you will raise your profile and boost your charisma. Here are my top 10 ways to inspire your...
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The Great Enemy of Truth... | Bite Sized Project Management Thought from John F Kennedy
‘For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.’ John F Kennedy Yale University Commencement: June 11, 1962 Kennedy also said: ‘No...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
How to Appeal to Listeners' Hearts and Minds
Learn how to appeal to listeners' hearts and minds to be more persuasive and deliver a compelling message. This is Part 3 in a 4-part series on how to write a persuasive speech or presentation.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Top 5 Communication Skills
Here are the Top 5 Communication Skills you need as a professional. These are the skills that are often expected but are often lacking among many professionals. You can stand out from the crowd if you're good at all five.
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ChatGPT 101 - Supercharge Your Work and Life with ChatGPT - Leveraging Tone, Style, and Voice
In this video, the instructor explores how to leverage tone, style, and voice to generate engaging and effective responses from ChatGPT. You will learn the importance of using language appropriate for an audience and strategies for...
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The Persuasive Letter
Mr. Griot teaches the elements of persuasive writing. He reads a persuasive letter written to persuade the local TV station to keep a popular show from being canceled.
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How to Influence People by Appealing to their Emotion
Nobody ever makes a decision on the facts alone. We make our choices based on emotions, and then use the facts to justify our decision… to others and to ourselves. So, how can you influence people by appealing to emotion?
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How to Craft a Compelling, Persuasive, and Powerful Presentation
There are four questions you need to ask – and answer – if you want to craft an excellent presentation, which your audience will find compelling, persuasive, and powerful. Let’s look at them. Get our Presentation Skills Toolkit, which...
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A Review of Entertaining, Informative, and Persuasive Writing
Miss Palomine reviews entertaining, informative, and persuasive writing. She then shows the student examples of different kids of writing and asks the student to determine if the writing is entertaining, informative, or persuasive.
The Business Professor
Inductive Message - Communication
What are Inductive Messages? ... The inductive method of communicating involves providing evidence or anecdotes that lead an individual to a logical conclusion.
The Business Professor
Arguments - Persuasive Communications
Persuasive writing is a form of written communication intended to convince or influence readers to accept a particular idea or opinion and to inspire action.
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Persuasive Ads
Miss Palomine explains to the student that aside from writing for entertainment and writing to provide information, there is a kind of writing called “persuasive writing.” She introduces persuasive writing by reading examples from three...
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Nonfiction
This video discusses the nonfiction genre as well as qualities, types of pieces, and characteristics of the genre.
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Evaluating Claims and Reasoning
This video describes claims and reasoning supporting a claim.
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Societal Neuromania
Legal scholars Nita Farahany (Duke) discusses the current societal preoccupation with neuroscience.
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Stereotypes of Mental Illness
USC legal scholar and author Elyn Saks describes the many false stereotypes of mental illness that still pervade the public consciousness, explaining that there are many more accomplished people than we thought who suffer from various...
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Elements of an Argument
A video entitled “Elements of an Argument” which explains the key components of a strong argument.
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Considering New Interpretations
This video entitled “Considering New Interpretations” models how to summarize points of agreement and disagreement in diverse perspectives.
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Persuasive Essay
This video illustrates the step-by-step process of writing a persuasive essay, including how to write a thesis statement, an introduction paragraph, body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.