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1. Hello Friends!
2. Charles Fleisher has joined the Fine Speakers Bureau
3. Your Personality Preferences can hurt you or help you
4. Aesop's fable: The apes and the travelers
5. How to subscribe/unsubscribe
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1. Hello friends!
I hope you and your family are healthy and well.
Here is a partial listing of upcoming events by Fine Speakers Bureau
members:
- "How to Prepare and Deliver Effective Speeches," Mon. Jan. 23 &
30, Union County College, Elizabeth, NJ
- "Learn How to Be Good at Impromptu Speaking," Mon Feb. 6 & 13, Union County College,
Elizabeth, NJ
For more information and how you can attend, visit http://www.finespeakers.com/news.html
Do you have an old computer projector you don't use or know someone who does? We
get speaking engagement requests by groups that cannot provide audiovisual
equipment. If we had a projector, we would be able to serve more groups and more
venues. If you can help or you would like to make a donation, please contact me.
Best regards,
...Prokopis Christou
2. Charles Fleisher has
joined the Fine Speakers Bureau
I am delighted to report that Charles Fleisher has joined the Fine Speakers
Bureau. Charles says that his life has been blessed with opportunities. At the
age of 18, he was involved in a tragic car accident which left him paralyzed
from the upper chest down. That injury directly resulted in opening many
unforeseen opportunities.
Find out more about Charles at:
http://www.finespeakers.com/speaker.asp?ID=52
3. Your Personality
Preferences can hurt you or help you
Adapted from "Decision Making and Problem Solving," FEMA
Independent Study Course 241
You personality preferences affect how you make
decisions. For example, someone who is thinking-oriented will obviously have a
different approach to decision making than someone who is feeling-oriented
Your Personality Type-What Does It Mean for Decision Making?
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®. Test is one
kind of personality inventory tool used to determine preferences. You can
complete this inventory here:
www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
When you take the personality profile online, you will receive four letters
indicating your preferred type (of two possible types) in four functions. The
two middle letters (S or N, T or F) indicate your dominant decision-making type.
Each dominant function has its own characteristic
strengths and blind spots when it comes to decision making. The following are
some generalizations about each dominant function:
- S-Sensing: The bias is toward
stability. Decisions have to make sense based on past experience. Asks,
"What are the facts, costs, and benefits?"
- N-Intuition: The bias is toward
innovation. Decisions should creatively make use of new opportunities and
insights. Asks, "What are the patterns and possible
interpretations?"
- T-Thinking: The bias is toward
effectiveness. Decisions must be objective and logical. Asks, "What are
the pros and cons, causes and effects?"
- F-Feeling: The bias is toward
integrity. Decisions should consider people's values and needs. Asks,
"How does this affect those involved?"
A key to good decision making is that it uses
both sensing and intuition to gather all the pertinent information, and both
thinking and feeling to weigh all the factors involved. When we rely only on our
dominant function, we tend to miss things and make poorer decisions.
To flex means to ask yourself the questions of
the other three functions, as well as the questions of your dominant function
that naturally occur to you. Although this process may feel awkward at first, it
will lead to decisions that are more sound.
Socrates of ancient Greece said "Know
thyself." Knowing yourself can help you make good decisions. Knowing your
type and being able to recognizing the types of people you interact with can
also help you build beneficial relationships professionally and in your personal
life.
4. Aesop's fable: The apes
and the travelers
Two travelers, one who always lied and one who
always spoke the truth, came upon the land of apes and were captured.
Brought before the king of the apes, and asked for their opinion of the king ape
and his subjects, the untruthful traveler praised the king to be a powerful and
impressive monarch, and all his subjects to be completely worthy of their
master. The king ape was delighted and gave the traveler a fine gift.
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