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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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StumpJump 2010 - David Jackson - August 21 & 22 2009
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 Universally known as "The Sales Doctor" David Jackson has been inspiring sales people for nearly 25 years.
Inspiring, fun, motivational, a great coach and role model…
These are some of the terms used to describe David. Since 1985 David has spoken to over 250,000 salespeople, Managers and business owners in 8 countries on how to learn to be the best they can be.
Using easy, proven and time effective techniques, David guides his clients to a more effective and efficient method of doing business. Known as the "Sales Doctor" because of his motivational medicines, David's clients have all recorded improvements in profits, team attitudes, productivity levels of customer service, and overall confidence. David is passionate about his ability to bring positive changes to his audiences. He specialises in Sales Skills, c
oming from a sales background where he was, in his industry of over 6000 salespeople, Australia's number 1 salesperson for 7 consecutive years.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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Trade Schools: Is Vocational Training Right For You?
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 Be honest with yourself! What kind of learner are you? If you are quite disciplined, do you need to plunk down the cash for a vocational training program? Maybe you could teach yourself, then get certified in your target field of choice.
Conversely, if your life is already frantically busy, are you sure you have the time and energy available to adequately devote yourself to a vocational training program?
But if the will and ability is there, attending one of the following trade schools is a great way to get ahead.
Source from: Education Centre Online - 'Your Online Education Resource' |
| posted by ThirstyFish @ 10:54 AM
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Monday, July 20, 2009
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What is a vocational degree?
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 Technical and vocational college degree programs prepare you for a specific trade, job or career. Generally, these colleges offer two-year programs, though some offer three- and four-year programs, as well. Likewise, most help you earn a license, certificate or associates degree; while some may help you earn a bachelor's degree. Community colleges may also offer technical and vocational courses. You may be interested in earning a certificate in Web development, becoming a licensed veterinary assistant, working in the food service and hospitality industry, or learning about the latest technology in your current job. These are just a few of the many different programs offered at technical and vocational colleges. Find out which ones offer the courses that interest you.
Source from: WikiAnswers.com |
| posted by ThirstyFish @ 4:31 PM
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Vocational education
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 Vocational education or Vocational Education and Training (VET), also called Career and Technical Education (CTE), prepares learners for jobs that are based in manual or practical activities, traditionally non-academic and totally related to a specific trade, occupation or vocation, hence the term, in which the learner participates. It is sometimes referred to as technical education, as the learner directly develops expertise in a particular group of techniques or technology.
Generally, vocation and career are used interchangeably. Vocational education might be classified as teaching procedural knowledge. This may be contrasted with declarative knowledge, as used in education in a usually broader scientific field, which might concentrate on theory and abstract conceptual knowledge, characteristic of tertiary education. Vocational education can be at the secondary or post-secondary level and can interact with the apprenticeship system. Increasingly, vocational education can be recognised in terms of recognition of prior learning and partial academic credit towards tertiary education (e.g., at a university) as credit; however, it is rarely considered in its own form to fall under the traditional definition of a higher education.
Vocational education has diversified over the 20th century and now exists in industries such as retail, tourism, information technology, funeral services and cosmetics, as well as in the traditional crafts and cottage industries.
Source from: Wikipedia 'The Free Encyclopedia" 2nd July 2009 |
| posted by ThirstyFish @ 3:37 PM
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StumpJump 2010 - Winston Marsh - August 21 & 22 2009
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 Mr Marketing is what Winston has been known as for many years... and he has inspired many companies across Australia to revitalise their marketing efforts..
The thousands of people who have heard Winston would say that first it's his enthusiasm. From the moment he bounds onto the stage and inspires the audience to believe that they are "f-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c!" people get excited.
Then it's his humour. Winston says that if you want people to listen then you've got to get them to laugh. And laugh they do because they're having fun.
 And finally it's his great ideas that just keep coming. People often get writer's cramp just getting his ideas down.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
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StumpJump 2010 - Rosie Pekar - August 21 & 22 2009
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 Are you ready to Kick “BUT”? Across Australia, America and Asia thousands have already experienced the powerful phenomenon that is Rosie Pekar, “Professional ‘BUT’ Kicker”.
Kicking “BUT” – or “Bloody Useless Thoughts” – is her mission. And it seems people can’t get enough of her no-excuses, Kick “BUT” strategies.
Rosie tells her story from being a policewoman and private investigator, she’s beaten all the odds to transform a life of violence, crime and anguish into a life of success.
Now a leading motivator, speaker and author of “Time to Kick BUT”, Rosie empowers people to live successfully by exposing self-sabotage and the personal deceptive practices that prevent success.
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| posted by ThirstyFish @ 10:10 AM
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
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Why Choose a Vocational School?
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Vocational Education Jobs:
Upon graduation from a vocational college, you will be prepared to go after the career of your choice, whether your goal is to work as a Carpenter, Legal Assistant, Medical Billing and Coding Specialist, Computer Programmer, or Graphic Designer. You can become an asset to businesses, government offices, and contractors with a vocational education that prepares you to make a seamless transition into the work force.
Vocational schools can also help prepare you to launch your own business from the ground up. Specialized training and the development of business skills, techniques, and an extensive base knowledge can allow you to graduate and move on to become a business owner, living the dream of becoming 'your own boss'.
If vocational training sounds like the right fit for you, make an action plan for vocational education by exploring the vocational colleges and the vocational education jobs available. The career of your dreams is waiting for you, make it a reality in less time than you imagined with a career-specific education from a vocational school.
Source by: 'Trade Schools, Colleges & Universities - Education & Career Articles' |
| posted by ThirstyFish @ 4:25 PM
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Monday, July 13, 2009
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Client Stories
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 "I was so scared when I began my studies, scared of making mistakes, scared of asking too much. I had been confident in my own country but coming into a new culture I had to learn from the beginning. Vocational Training gave me my starting point and the chance to move forward"
"I am glad that I joined the course at Vocational Training as it gave me the chance to recognise that I already had many skills and abilities. It also introduced me to new areas to help build for the future"
"I was forced to change direction and saw that over the years everything has become computerised so I needed to learn these skills if I wanted to get into education and ultimately another job"
Source from: Vocational Stories - 'Training for a brighter future' |
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
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Trade Schools & Vocational Training Programs
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 According to the dictionary, trade schools - also known as vocational schools - are secondary schools that teach the skilled trades. This day and age, a trade school can actually be a professional school specializing in one field, or a local community or vocational college where several disciplines in a variety of fields are taught.
In recent years trade schools, no matter the type, have proliferated. As competition for well-paying jobs sharpens, more and more workers are looking to vocational schools to buffer their resumes, and take a pro-active stance towards better guaranteeing good wages for the future.
Specifically, trade schools provide you with skills and job training that is on the cutting edge of technology. The idea is that completion of a good trade school program should allow you to jump right in to the specific career field of your choice.
Source from: Education Centre Online - 'Your Online Education Resource'Labels: proffesional, trade schools, vocational |
| posted by ThirstyFish @ 10:51 AM
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Monday, June 15, 2009
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StumpJump 2010 - David Caruso - August 21 & 22 2009
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 David Caruso has been a successful SME Business owner for 16 years. From a sole operator based in Sydney's Western Suburbs, David successfully grew his small business into a thriving Multi-million dollar a year success story, which still operates today through a dedicated management team.
David is recognised one of Australia's and probably now the world's leading exponents of Making Google PPC (Pay Per Click) pay for your business.
Share the insights that allowed David to increase monthly revenue by $2400 in one of his businesses for the cost of $5.85 of Google Advertising - (& that was just in one product line – he has x200+ lines)
David believes that new technology has enabled small business to compete on equal grounds with big business - if you know how!
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
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StumpJump 2010 - Ric Raftis - August 21 & 22 2009
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 What a unique combination - an accountant who understands what makes a business tick, a computer tech head with personality and a published and recorded bush poet and singer...
Ric Raftis is one of a kind. They threw away the mould when Ric entered this world.
Ric Raftis is a former accountant who worked in public practice and specialised in business advice, sales and marketing. He has also had considerable experience in direct sales and marketing having worked in the commercial finance sector for many years.
Ric brings all this experience to his business Bushsong which is based in country Victoria in Wedderburn, where he can assi st with advice on marketing your business to its full potential and help your business to make money online through your web site.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
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What is Vocational Training?
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 Vocational training prepares learners for jobs that are based in manual or practical activities, traditionally non-academic and related to a specific trade, occupation or vocation. It covers a wide range of subject areas and tends to be more hands on than academic qualifications might be.
Our world is changing fast, and we all need more skills than ever before. 2 out of 3 jobs in the future will require a higher level of skills and better qualifications.
The good news is that we're all natural learners - use this site to explore how you can learn skills that will help you take control of your future.
Source from: South Thames College |
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
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StumpJump 2010 - Dennis Hall - August 21 & 22 2009
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 With over 20 years management experience, an MBA in Marketing Management and a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment, Dennis’ unique combination of “Hands on” experiences and studies provides you with the sort of “Know how” you don’t often get to draw from. Dennis doesn’t just talk these challenging areas of business, he Lives them.
With a wide and varied business background, Dennis has achieved success when guiding the NSW sales team of Jetset Australia to national sales leadership for the first time in 4 years.
In the accommodation arena Dennis established a sales team, from scratch, for a leading resort on the Sunshine Coast.
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| posted by ThirstyFish @ 10:17 AM
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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The Wooden Bowl
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 I guarantee you will remember the tale of the Wooden Bowl tomorrow, a week from now, a month from now, a year from now.
A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year old grandson. The old man's hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. The family ate together at the table. But the elderly grandfather's shaky hands and failing sight made eating difficult. Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor. When he grasped the glass, milk spilled on the tablecloth.
The son and daughter-in-law became irritated with the mess. "We must do something about father," said the son. "I've had enough of his spilled milk, noisy eating, and food on the floor."
So the husband and wife set a small table in the corner. There, Grandfather ate alone while the rest of the family enjoyed dinner. Since Grandfather had broken a dish or two, his food was served in a wooden bowl!
When the family glanced in Grandfather's direction, sometime he had a tear in his eye as he sat alone. Still, the only words the couple had for him were sharp admonitions when he dropped a fork or spilled food.
The four-year-old watched it all in silence. One evening before supper, the father noticed his son playing with wood scraps on the floor. He asked the child sweetly, "What are you making?"
Just as sweetly, the boy responded, "Oh, I am making a little bowl for you and Mama to eat your food in when I grow up." The four-year-old smiled and went back to work.
The words so struck the parents so that they were speechless. Then tears started to stream down their cheeks. Though no word was spoken, both knew what must be done.
That evening the husband took Grandfather's hand and gently led him back to the family table. For the remainder of his days he ate every meal with the family. And for some reason, neither husband nor wife seemed to care any longer when a fork was dropped, milk spilled, or the tablecloth soiled. |
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Monday, June 8, 2009
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Dad, this is what I want to do - the Power of a Dream
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 Glenn Campbell is a true super star of the music industry but this is a story about his partnership with Jimmy Webb.
In 1969 Campbell sold more records than The Beatles, a surge in popularity that came off the back of his TV show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour; and the same year he co-starred in True Grit with his friend John Wayne. ("My horse," Campbell recalls, "was frightened of his horse.").
Though his instinct for a song is uncanny - he says he wanted to record Jimmy Webb's By The Time I Get To Phoenix the moment he saw the title - he has never acquired the respect accorded to some other performers; perhaps because his songs were considered too middle-of-the-road for a pop audience, too country for the middle-of-the-road market, and too mainstream for country and western fans. He's written hit records, but sees himself predominantly as an interpreter of work by others, including Larry Weiss, who wrote Rhinestone Cowboy.
Often there is a bond between a performed and a song writer. Campbell says:
"I have had that kind of a bond," says Campbell, "with a man who has been like a brother to me: Jimmy Webb."
When Campbell's first hit, Turn Around, Look At Me, was released, Webb, 11 years his junior, was a 14-year-old living in Laverne, Oklahoma.
"I heard that song on the radio," Webb tells me, on the phone from his home in New York, "and 'I borrowed money from my dad. I had never bought a record before."
He played the single, as he recalls, to the point that his father, a Baptist preacher, implored him to stop. "I said, `Dad, this is what I want to do. I want to write songs like this one.'
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Sunday, June 7, 2009
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Cherish
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Cherish your visions.
Cherish your ideals.
Cherish the music that stirs in your heart,
the beauty that forms in your mind,
the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts,
for out of them will grow all delightful conditions,
all heavenly environment;
of these, if you but remain true to them,
your world will at last be built."
James Allen |
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Saturday, June 6, 2009
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Are you into Second Life Yet?
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"I have a squirrel pole dancing around the clock in Second Life earning five Linden dollars an hour. When it makes enough money, I'll buy some virtual land and build virtual Carbon Planet headquarters."
Dave Sag, CEO, Carbon Planet |
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Friday, June 5, 2009
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Dreams
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"There is only one thing
that makes a dream impossible
to achieve:
the fear of failure."
Paulo Coelho |
| posted by ThirstyFish @ 11:34 AM
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
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Floods Break Drought
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 Whether it is global warming or just nature at her most furios, NSW hs had drought breaking rain which is causing death, destruction and heartache for thousands...
From stuff.co.nz
The bodies of an elderly couple whose car was washed off a bridge in the Hunter Valley have been recovered as wild weather continues to lash the eastern part of the state.
A Newcastle man is missing after being swept down a stormwater drain in the city's north, police say. The 40-year-old was a passenger in a Ford Festiva that stopped at 5pm yesterday in Griffith Road, near Lambton.
Police said the man fell into the stormwater drain after getting out of the car and was swept from view. He has not been seen since and police continue to search the area and downstream.
Meanwhile, the search has resumed for a family of five missing after a NSW Central Coast road collapsed, sending their car crashing down an embankment and into a flooded creek. |
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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Million Dollar Habits - Repetition
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 In Robert Ringer's book, Million Dollar Habits, he says in the Introduction that "Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success." His objective in writing Million Dollar Habits was to share with his readers a wide variety of habits that he believes always produce positive results.
Ringer write:
"Interestingly, however, when I searched (on computer) for the word "repetition" in my book, I was surprised to find that I had used it only twice. And neither use was in conjunction with developing success habits.
In other words, I never actually explained how to go about forming those habits. It's been 15 years since I wrote Million Dollar Habits, so it's difficult to recall precisely what was on my mind at the time. In hindsight, however, it appears that I assumed the reader would understand that habits are formed through repetition."
In writing circles, this is known as presumption of (reader) knowledge on the part of the author, and it's something that a writer should always strive to avoid. It's the writer's duty to make certain that not one reader is left wondering, "But how do I actually do it?"
Every sports fan knows Larry Bird's story - practicing on a rickety old basket in French Lick, Indiana eight to 10 hours a day. Even though Bird was not considered to be a great athlete, through the sheer power of repetition he became a Hall of Fame legend.
Today, of course, there are millions of basketball players, from middle school to the pros, who are great shooters. And they all acquired that skill the exact same way - through repetition. There is no shortcut.
Repetition is how you become good at any sport, artistic endeavor, math, writing ... just about any activity one can think of. We've heard the truism all our lives: Practice makes perfect.Labels: Million Dollar Habit, Robert Ringer |
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