Description: This article provides public speaking guidelines.

Description: Do you wish you could be more effective? Would you like a few keys to being effective? In the June 2004 Harvard Business Review, Peter Drucker wrote an article titled “What Makes an Effective Executive.” As I read it I realized that it applies to all of us, not just executives. Applying these practices will make us better actuaries regardless of the level we’re at. From The Stepping Stone, January 2005, Issue No. 17.

Description: This article examines the application of a twelve-step program to managerial situations thereby achieving more productive managerial behavior and greater effectiveness.

Description: This article stresses the importance of aligning goal-setting, prioritization and performance evaluation.

Description: This article describes the advantages of focusing on outcomes rather than “to-dos” in effective time management.

Description: The author gives advice on how to sell your point of view using two basic concepts: having conviction about the value you are providing and remianing completely detached from the results.

Description: This article presents lost career opportunity examples from lack of communication skills and a list of resources to help you work on building and improving your own skills.

Description: The author encourages planning ahead, setting the stage, facilitating effectively and time management as steps in creating meetings that are extremely valuable and and informative.

Description: The author recommends American business people visit the web site:www.businessfordiplomaticaction.com, the brainchild of Keith Reinhard, a nonprofit to work to improve America’s image abroad.

Description: This article is about putting your career or business on the fast track by digging into challenges.