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Hello and welcome to the first e-newsletter from ST Success Skills. Remember you used to find me in your inbox regularly with 'Shirley Says'? Well I'm sorry that disappeared from your inbox some time ago. However, I can assure you that ST Success Skills is going to be much better, more content-rich, and will provide you with lots of tools, tips, guidelines and motivating advice to help shape the star in you! I'm really proud to announce the recent publication of 2 great books: E-mail Etiquette (written by me) and Present for Success (written by Alison Lester). Published by Marshall Cavendish International, these books are the first in a series of books under the brand name of ST Training Solutions Success Skills. You can learn much more about them, see extracts from them, and of course order them, by visiting our brand new website www.STSuccessSkills.com. The website is a work in progress, and we will be adding to it constantly to bring you lots of help and motivation, success boosters, and much more! In this inaugural ST Success Skills e-newsletter, we are bringing you articles on e-mail and presentation skills, to whet your appetite for these first 2 new books. You'll also find details of our upcoming live appearance in Kinokuniya on Saturday 13 June. It would be great to see you and your friends there, so please come along and say hello. You might also win a copy of our new books! I hope you enjoy this issue of ST Success Skills, and will look forward to our monthly issues. Go on! Start shaping the star in you! Shirley Taylor |
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E-mail viruses make front-page newspaper headlines. They cost decent computer users a lot of money, they waste our time and energy, and they cause unimaginable distress to people all over the world. Could anything be worse? What about the damage that people are causing to themselves every day by taking e-mail for granted? The familiarity and convenience of e-mail is resulting in sloppy, careless habits that could ruin your business and your reputation just as surely as any e-mail virus. Electronic mail is having a phenomenal effect on the way we communicate. E-mail is not just a quick, easy and relatively cheap way to keep in touch with family and friends. It has also become an essential tool in business, a fundamental part of the way in which we work. However the explosive growth of e-mail has created some problems, mainly because there have never been any guidelines on how to compose e-mail messages, no definitive guide to common standards and expectations among writers of e-mail. Consequently systems are being overloaded, communication is rampant, reputations are being damaged, feelings are being hurt and time is being wasted. Read more of this article here » 
It's commonly said that most people in fact fear presenting more than they fear death, because they can't imagine what death feels like, but they can imagine what presenting feels like, and it feels awful! As a result, many people avoid presenting at all. This can have a very limiting effect on their careers, since they will have fewer opportunities for wider exposure, engagement and experience, which is very unfortunate. But it is natural to dislike being on the spot in front of a crowd, or even in front of a few people in a meeting. What's interesting though is that there are actually a lot of people who make an effort to improve their presentation skills, but do so in unproductive ways. Let's look at one particular case. Read more of this article here »
 
So, what do you think of this first issue of ST Success Skills? What do you think of our new website www.STSuccessSkills.com? I'd really love to hear from you. Please e-mail me at Shirley@STSuccessSkills.com with your comments.
See you next month.
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