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:: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 ::

Dana Lewenthal - Workshops: "In The Professional Performer workshop you will:
Plan your own career
Identify and develop your artistic mission
Prepare for auditions
Focus on your differentiation
Discuss the importance of relationships
Assess your marketing materials
Learn correspondence: cover letters, email & voicemail
Set goals "

:: simon dunstan 8:08 AM [+] ::
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Masala Chai: "Masala Chai



4 tsp loose tea, usually black
1 piece of dry ginger
3 cardamom pods, crushed
3 whole cloves
1 piece of cinnamon stick
Milk and sugar to taste
Boil 2 cups of water, then add tea and spices. Boil for another half minute then remove from heat. Let sit for 1 minute. Strain out the spices and serve, with milk and/or sugar.
Serves 4 "

Yes yes yes.... shame is this tastes so good when made with loads of suga\zr and condensed milk - oh my teeth!

:: simon dunstan 3:23 AM [+] ::
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InnerCompass Resources and Links: "Resources " some useful forms and links here for general coaching

:: simon dunstan 2:53 AM [+] ::
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Self Tests: "How Coachable Are You?" neat little test to use when qualifying prospects

:: simon dunstan 1:47 AM [+] ::
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The International Association of Coaches - Our mission is to further the interests of coaching clients worldwide.: "15 Coaching Proficiencies" This from coachville originally

:: simon dunstan 1:13 AM [+] ::
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KTR Consulting: "Achieve the results you want faster, easier and with less stress!" Thats a succinct definition of coaching.... thanks Kate Ripp.

:: simon dunstan 1:09 AM [+] ::
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Self-fulfilling Prophecy or Pygmalion Effect at Work

The concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy can be summarized in these key principles:

1 We form certain expectations of people or events
2 We communicate those expectations with various cues
3 People tend to respond to these cues by adjusting their behavior to match them
4 The result is that the original expectation becomes true

This creates a circle of self-fulfilling prophecies.

Does it work?

A convincing body of behavioral research says it does.

In 1971 Robert Rosenthal, a professor of social psychology at Harvard, described an experiment in which he told a group of students that he had developed a strain of super-intelligent rats that could run mazes quickly. He then passed out perfectly normal rats at random, telling half of the students that they had the new "maze-bright" rats and the other half that they got "maze-dull" rats.

The rats believed to be bright improved daily in running the maze they ran faster and more accurately. The "dull" rats refused to budge from the starting point 29% of the time, while the "bright" rats refused only 11% of the time. This experiment illustrates the first of a number of corollaries to our four basic principles.

:: simon dunstan 3:03 AM [+] ::
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