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Tips of asking better questions

A good question is the new answer. People spend more time thinking about answers than questions, but it's the questions that make you look smart.

1. Creative thinking.
It's true. Good questions are fundamentally creative, because it reflects on what people haven't met before. Good questions are ones when they are raised, everybody must think immediately to find the answers. I mean it has really attractive to audience. In addition, one way to different from others and more interesting in front of other is asking good questions, since answers are a commodity.

2. Good questions make you move
Sometimes, I lose my career path, I mean the direction for my life, at that time, I always ask some questions for myself. Due to these questions, I can get the insightful answers. For example, when you are assigned to write marketing plan for launching new products, you don't know how to write it, so the best way to complete it is searching in the internet, as well as putting in your mind some questions such as how the promotion campaign is benefit for your company?.etc

3. Field other peoples' questions to get better at asking questions.
This is useful tool to ask a good question. Everything happens by chance, although you prepare so much for your meeting, but you still anticipate the result or events happen in your conversation with investors, for example. Therefore, to win the competition with competitors  to receive the contract, you can field other people's questions, combine everything into your mind, thinking and find the best solution throughout asking good questions, your competitors can be embarrassed with your question. I also need to be more kind about peoples' questions, by helping them figure out what their real question is. And the process helps me do it with my life, too.

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Motivation & Self-Improvement

Manage anger at workplace

1. Create comfortable before going to work

This is a common problem faced by  women, who not only earn money from working at office, but also have responsibility in taking care of their families. They are easily frustrated when every things don't follow their way , such as the breakfast is not delicious, their children is too disturb before going to the kindergarten. Don't  let these issues put pressure for you. You should ask the maid or nanny to help you in the morning to avoid the feeling that you cannot do normal parenting things on your own.

2. Use deep breathing to regulate stress.
Stress is the worst thing that can quickly lead to angry. So, practicing of deep breathing every day, especially at the time when you start working or dealing with problem inside the organization is good method for anger management.

3. Balance work- life

Try to balance your work and your life, don't make anything in the hurry situation, especially having a good and deep sleep. To do that, you should complete everything before 10:00pm, save the rest of time to relax and prepare necessary things for the next day. Before going to sleep, you should take a light message, drink milk. Surely, you will feel good in the next morning.

4. Find the reason why you get frustrated
Everything happens because of some defined reasons. Try to find them out, as you can have solution for the next conflict, and learn experiences from that situation. Don't make these stuffs happen again!

5. Take note on food

In reality, food has the large impact on human's health as well as people's mood, as in the ingredient of food, they have some vitamins or substances which can create strong energy or excited for someone, in contrast they still make people crazy. If you pay a little attention, you can know which food you should use for good health and good mood.

6. Slow down a tough situation so you make good decisions.
One of successful tips to be better anger management is to keep calm when facing with tough situation. Keep calm first, then breathe deeply, and think carefully about happening situation, find the source of information to have good solution for that. Slow down every disputes!

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Management, Motivation & Self-Improvement

Sales Presentation and Demo Skills Training Video

So, what do you folks think is the number one reason why technology demos fail? Other reasons technology demos I hear this all the time Well you know I'll bet the guy didn't know the product particularly well Sounds like it makes sense. Oh, you know what he didn't know the sales situation.
I'll bet he didn't know his audience. Guess what? The answer is going to really surprise you, it surprised me. Were just going to do a brief exercise to
explain to you what I'm talking about. Everybody, I want one person to take a pen, they are called the talkers in this exercise. The other person is the listener. What I'd like you talkers to do, is to think of a song. Don't say the song out loud. Think of a song and the song is going to be something simple, nursery rhyme-ish. And what I'd like you to do, is tap out that song.
Listeners, pay attention because you are going to try to guess what that song is. And I'm going to do the same up here. Rich, go ahead.
Tapps out the Software demo training song.... OK, everybody got a bead on what the song is? Alright, there's a famous study by Elizabeth Newton. She was a PhD candidate at Stanford. And what she found in this study, is what
I'm talking about. People that are too close to the subject, people that have extra information have a really really hard time explaining it to someone
else. In this exercise, in her study about 98 percent of the tappers were positive that the other person would figure out the song.
You know how many people got the song right in the listeners?
Two percent! And the reason is that people have too much information, they've forgotten what it's like to go back to the beginning when they didn't
know anything. So who out there. Go ahead tell each other. And then were going to show of hands, who got it right. I'm thinking London bridges falling down? No OK, I got mine wrong anybody else, anybody get it right? OK, were batting zero, that's good for me actually that's a step up. Thank you Rich.
OK, so the most important thing to keep in mind is that you're an engineer, you're a smart person. You spent a ton of time learning about technology,
a ton of time learning about your product. Guess what?
That's you're biggest impediment if you're not careful.

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Motivation & Self-Improvement, Sales & Marketing

How to be more outstanding than others

1. Try to specialize

People can only pay attention to you if you have talent, something specific that people recognize from you . This is why you need to specialize in a certain area, and it is also a condition to help you stand out. Of course, when you specialize in this area, you will be better than others in the field. You have to say no to people to establish yourself as an expert in something, and experts get hired more often than non-experts.

2.  Try something new, stay the most focused when things look the most difficult



When your boss is too boring with your capability in working, as well as you are always assigned the same tasks . Let try something new, to see if it might work faster  in order  to create an impression and stand out.

In addition, when things in the company look the most difficult, be careful and pay attention to solve problem more exactly and quickly than others, then present them to your boss, surely, he or she can have high appreciation for you and get promoted is easily to catch.

3. Set the goals and measure the effectiveness

If you want to be more standing out than others, you have to build long-term reputation for yourself. This is not something you do in a few months. So you need to get familiar with some work habits that will allow you be stand out from work style to. A barrier to good self-promotion is very difficult to know yourself success. One of the biggest risk factor for exhaustion is doing a lot of work without being able to measure the success. Therefore,  making daily goals to something small - to reach out to someone. This way can help you measure your level of success and make plan for next time.

4. Be confident in life and catch the opportunities

Do not say no to anything. Just because someone is offering you a stupid project or a project that you would never want your name on, don't turn it down, just raise your fee. Let's see, whether you succeed in areas that you think are stupid or not ? Be confident in life, don't  bring feeling of fear and  anxiety when doing something. Opportunities do not come so much, so catch them immediately. Change how you think about time. If you keep a paying job and do self-promotion on the side, until you have some traction, then you are giving yourself time to learn how to be your own publicist before you depend on that for food money.

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Motivation & Self-Improvement