Influence And Persuasion: 3 Golden Keys From Learn New Skills Blog

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There are no secrets to influence and persuasion

Influence And Pesuasion Is All About Getting Others To Understand And Accept Your Ideas

Influence And Persuasion:  There Is No Secret, But There Are Golden Keys From Learn New Skills Blog

 

Influence and persuasion– notable quotes

As Plato observed, “persuasion is the key to power.”

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.John Hancock

How many phone calls do you get at home from telemarketers?  We now seem to be getting more and more on our cell phones.  Now, if I don’t recognize the number, I won’t answer it.  But it gets worse.  While text messaging from people trying to convince you buy something, or take some action isn’t that bad right now, trust me, it will grow in magnitude over the next twelve months.  And as far as emails, they have taken over the majority of emails I get and they are very annoying.

Influence and persuasion- an important skill set

Learning new skills like influence and persuasion is a very important.  To keep this post length a little shorter, the post will come in 2 parts. In the 2nd post I will show you the

  • 3 golden keys to influence and persuasion
  • Supported by modern techniques
  • The insight to the performance tools you can use everyday to be more effective in areas of influence and persuasion.
  • Learning how to be an effective influencer

In this post, I will deliver the meaning and the difference between the two subjects as well as the background to influence and persuasion, and why it is the golden keys to the golden treasure!!!   A side footnote:  Influence and persuasion is obviously about selling.  But typically, sales are transactions:  You receive money from a customer for the benefits they receive from buying your product.   This post is not about selling a product or service, but about getting people to understand and accept your ideas.

Influence and persuasion- the essence of the meanings

Influence and persuasion is all also about how to convince others to understand and accept your ideas or solutions to problems. Basically anytime you need to convince someone to your way of thinking.

Influence and persuasion- we experience thousands of times a year

We literally give thousands of presentations a year in our normal daily lives.  Every day we experience problems and issues that need these skills; the clerk in the store who won’t accept a return on a product because the package is open.  You want to go out for dinner but you can’t seem to agree on what restaurant.  Maybe your boss is looking at two different approaches and you want him to take yours.  Influence and persuasion helps get the results you need along life’s journey.

Influence and persuasion is common place in our daily lives.  For example, while listening to the TV at breakfast, a number of advertisements will be presented to you in such a short time frame: one for a new breakfast bar you eat on the go that helps you lose weight, or, how about driving to the golf course where billboards and signs on the sides of the road flourish.  Even on buses and occasional car and truck people try to convince viewers to consider certain products.

Influence and persuasion is being used everywhere, by everyone, yes, even the little boy next door who knocks on your door and says, “Good morning Mr. Wilson,” would you like to buy a holiday wrap  to support my Scout troop’s plans to take a camping trip this Summer?  Some forms of influence and persuasion can be very, very powerful.

Defining influence and persuasion– the meanings defined

If you want to really develop a deep understanding in the field of influence and persuasion, than a good place to start is with the definition of the words themselves. These words are often used interchangeably, however, if you want to nurture a deeper understanding of the subject you need to start with a deeper understanding of their definition.

 

All About Influence
All About Influence- Being An Influencer

 

Influence and persuasion- all about influence

Influence is a catch-all term. Whenever you attempt to deliberately direct or change a person’s thoughts, feeling or behaviors than influence is said to have occurred.

Influence is trendy.  What passed for influence last year or last month may not be influence at all today. Influence is free to change, which it does on its own accord.  We must we be creative to remain relevant. “Leadership is Dead”: How Influence is Reviving It, is a new book by Jeremie Kubicek, explaining how to become truly influential: by overcoming the desire for self-preservation, a tendency that sabotages many leaders today. Long story short: Influence is personal—customized by your current circumstances, interests and preferences.

The problem is that influence is also the most underused tool and asset in the world. And the primary reason is- the enemy of influence is a universal human trait we mentioned earlier: self-preservation.  Because of that, the approach today is much softer than ever before. You influence by establishing trust first and foremost. That is the current perspective on the subject of influence. Hard selling is absolutely out today.  The days of selling on the premise of instilling fear: you need this insurance policy to protect your family in the future, is now replace with a much softer approach- life insurance is prudent for smart people and a basic stepping stone in the financial planning process.

Persuasion Is An Art

Persuasion Is An Art

Influence and persuasion- all about persuasion

Persuasion is a powerful force in daily life and has a major influence on society as a whole. Persuasion is a part of education and learning. Persuasion is also a part of recreation and relaxation. This might be true in some scenarios, but persuasion isn’t just a pushy salesman trying to sell you a car, or a television commercial enticing you to buy the latest and greatest product. Persuasion is often more effectual than force. The key elements of this definition of persuasion are that: persuasion is symbolic, utilizing words, images, sounds, metaphors, etc. and that it involves a deliberate attempt to influence others.

Persuasion is really a subset of Influence. It is when you use communication to try and deliberately change a persons’ attitude. If a person’s attitude has changed then persuasion has occurred.

It’s a subtle but important difference.  Each of the terms above is concerned with deliberate change- but they are different in that persuasion requires a certain level of communication such that an attitude change is adopted by the person. This communication is likely to be a combination of verbal and non-verbal messages. Influence on the other hand can be achieve without any communication and is directed to achieving a specific external behavioral change without gaining any change in the person’s attitude.

Social Influence investigates the causes of human change–whether that change is a behavior, an attitude, or a belief.

Persuasion attempts to win “the heart and mind” of the target (group or individual; in this case maybe your teen). Thus, in order to persuade you must bring about a change in attitude, which is basically an emotion-based change.

With the foundation set, my next post will deliver the three keys to influence and persuasion, some basic techniques to develop the new skill, as well as a powerful tool to make influence and persuasion a systematic process, every time you need to influence others or persuade in some way.  Best of all, you will discover what it means to be a real “influencer”.

George Napoli is both an author: Be Thinkful©, as well as an entrepreneur having coached and trained thousands of employees and entrepreneurs in high level skill sets in Leadership, Six Sigma, Management Training and a wide range of high level- life changing skill sets like thinking, creativity and innovation and change.  I am a Professional Blogger and Professional Internet Marketer.  I am fortunate to hold Masters Certificates in Human Resource Development, Strategic Organizational Leadership and a Master Black Belt in Six Sigma, all from Villanova University.

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Living Your Dream- Learn New Skills And Bring All Your Dreams With You

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Living Your Dream

Living Your Dream- Bring All Your Dreams With You

Living Your Dream– Learn New Skills And Bring All Your Dreams With You

First of all, I’m not talking about dreams and dreaming as you do when you sleep.  Everyone dreams but some dream more than others.  In any event, that is not what this post is about.

Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.- T.E. Lawrence

Living your dream- do you remember? 

Do any of you remember when you first looked at the pictures from all your friends in your high school year book?  Many of those comments from friends said the same thing….”always follow your dreams”.  What happened to those dreams?  Do you remember them, do you still dream?

Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to follow our dreams and focus on the one dream that is most important to us in our lives.  Before we talk about that, let’s take a look at some of the more popular dreams and their respective themes.  They tend to be typical for a lot of people.

Living your dream- daydream themes. Check out this link for more insight: http://goodlifezen.com/

What you daydream about is almost always indicative of what you may really be feeling.  For most of us, it truly does reveal our unconscious thinking: our subconscious mind.  I saved the most popular dream for last, since it will get the most attention.  Below are some common dream themes with a brief description for each one:

  • Spiritual- to know oneself and or to believe in a higher being
  • Meaningful life- to have some purpose and be a positive contributor
  • Peace of mind- to know the meditative path to calmness, clarity and contentment
  • Self acceptance- the confidence with who you are and counting your blessings for what you have
  • Meaningful work- getting compensated for something you enjoy doing and where you can use  your skills to get ahead in life
  • Happiness- finding contentment and balance in life

That is a brief summary of the most common dreams most people have during their waking day.  If one of these themes has sparked your arousal, then follow that dream and you will flourish.   Here’s how I would approach them if they were my dreams.

Living your dream- a quick tip

Let’s choose happiness.  Who doesn’t want to be happy?  You can learn new skills that teach you how to be happy and how to be content with what you have; being content is one of the major keys to happiness.   Here’s why. If you are not content, then you are distracted by the next thing you want, that you don’t have.  If you think you will be happy after you get something, a new car, a spouse, a new job, a 2’ bigger boat or whatever, you’re never going to find real happiness.

As soon as you get what you thought would make you happy, you are on to the next distraction; the next “if I can just get this, then I know I will be happy” distraction cycle.  You need to find contentment.  That is just a fact of life.

The second key to finding happiness is controlling your internal conversations.  You know what I mean.  The ones you carry on with yourself.  Many times these are negative conversations that due nothing to spark happiness.  You should read The Meditative Path.  It gives you great insight into the subject of finding peace and contentment; the two keys and road to true happiness.  Actually, it is one of the best books I have ever read and very easy to understand and practice.  If you are interested in a copy, I think it’s only available from the Thesophical Society in Geneva Illinois-bookstore. I’ve provided a link to the Society- I do not have any affiliation with them, nor do I earn a commission of any sort.  Point is: there are plenty of books on the subject of happiness…read them of that is your dream.

Now It’s time to bring out the most popular daydream of all, and it really is no surprise:  It’s “Living the American Dream”.

Bring all your dreams- living the American Dream has many different meanings for different people:

1-Living the American dream-living in America where you have your freedom, work hard and you are able to get ahead in life has always been the American dream

2- Living the American Dream- for some of us it means owning your own house, but the bud on that flower has withered for now.  It will come back as a popular dream again soon

3- Living the American dream for others simply means being retired and being financially independent and free of the day to day work grind

4- Living the American dream for most of us and this is the most popular dream of all: being your own boss and owning your own business; stands out as the clear winner for most of our dreams and here is some proof:

Young People Want to Be Their Own Boss and desire to follow their dreams. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation commissioned Harris Interactive ®  http://www.kauffman.org/  to conduct a survey of 2,438 U.S. young people ages 8 to 21.  In my generation, we dreams of being cowboys.  That’s just the way it was.  Today, t an early age, we dream and aspire to have our own business and it continues to bloom throughout life for most of us.

The results of this survey reveals that everyone, especially youth’s, want to be their own boss and they hope to make that real life dream a reality.  Here are the stats:

  • 4 in 10 young people have or would like to start their own business
  • 27 percent of 8- to 21-year-olds would like to start a company.

Those who want to have their own business say their top reasons are:

  • 91% to use their skills and abilities and to build something for their future
  • 89 % want to be their own boss and want their dreams realized

Live the dream- a quick start plan

Do you still have a dream?  Do you want to start fulfilling your dream and living it?  Then start by giving your dream mental energy.  The more you think about something, the more it grows, the more it grows, the more it takes on a life of its own. With enough mental energy, you too can live your dream.  Remember that, because mental energy can also work in the reverse.  If you have a problem and continue to give it a lot of mental energy, it also grows, maybe even out of perspective.  That is why you dwell on the positives and you give appropriate time to the negatives.  Just don’t dwell on them.

Remember this.  If you quit dreaming you’re going to miss one of the best parts of life.  The hope for a better you, the promise of a better future and a chance for you to live your dream come true.  Some say even a small part of you dies when you quit dreaming.

Maybe it’s time to start living your dreams and begin to make them a reality.  Go ahead…give them the mental energy they deserve, you may surprise yourself !!!

If living the American dream is a dream come true for you, then you will want to stay tuned, start the buzz and tell your friends around the water cooler there is way more coming on the subject of living the American dream for owning your own business, sustaining your dreams and flourishing in the process.  You will learn that with the rights skills and tools and with the help of the internet as you friend, ally and partner, you too can live the American dream of owning your own business.

George Napoli is both an author of several books: Be Thinkful© for thinking and generating great ideas as well as the author of Drinks for Diabetics, Dieter and Designated Drivers-solutions for low carb beverages. He is also an entrepreneur having coached and trained thousands of employees and entrepreneurs in high level skill sets in Leadership, Six Sigma, Management Training and a wide range of high level- life changing skill sets like thinking, creativity and innovation and change.  He is a Professional Internet Marketer and hold Masters Certificates in Human Resource Development, Strategic Organizational Leadership and a Master Black Belt in Six Sigma, all from Villanova University.

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Learn New Skills- Organizational Effectiveness for Employees and Employers

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Learn New Skills- Organizational Effectiveness Getting the High A

Learn New Skills- Organizational Effectiveness for Employees and Employers

Organizational Effectiveness-the real issue for both the employee and employer

“85% of all employees do not know what is expected of them.”  That my friend’s is the sad truth.

It’s 2012 and a New Year.  For employees: is it going to be just another year for you, or is it going to be a year of excelling at your job and getting ahead in your career?
For employers:  Is this going to be a top performing year for your company, or just another same old, same old, just like last year?

Organizational Effectiveness- the high A

Let’s take a different perspective on this subject.  I remember the good old days when I was a student.  Personally, I’ve never taken a class that provided a grade without asking the most important question upfront, on the first day of the class:  “What’s the high A?”  The second important question that follows up the first is:  what can I do for extra credits?

Here’s the wisdom behind the two most important questions you need answers to in school as well to at work if you want excel.  If you don’t know what you have to do to get the high A, you will inevitably come up short on the grade, or even miss the mark completely.  Conversely, if you know what you have to do to get the high A and you come up short, you have a safety valve from the second question you already asked: extra credits.

These strategies provide the following insight for you: first, you need to show the
teacher, in this case your boss, that you are interested in excelling and that you care about your performance.  And second, extra credit could be the buffer to move that needle one mark, to the high A and closer to above standard performance, keeping you in good standings for future growth and promotions at your job.

Organizational effectiveness- the high A at work

You should apply that exact same philosophy and strategies to work, the very first day you start in a new job, and here’s why.  If I know what’s expected of me, in this case the high A, I now have the framework for providing a standard of performance at or above expectations.  You have to know what is expected of you going into the job.  For those of you that that never found out the first day, well, today is the first day of your understanding about the high A and expectations.  So start today to know what’s expected of you.

Organizational Effectiveness-What great employees do:

  • Ask what it takes to get the high A
  • Ask for and use their job description to guide them to effectiveness
  • Request and review the performance review they will be measured by and then systematically excel at the components and metrics they are measured by
  • Ask their boss what they have to do to get promoted
  • Always ask if there are opportunities to learn and take classes and programs that improve your job skills and core discipline
  • Knowing about additional projects; the extra credits they can take on to support the company and their cause for advancing their careers and in getting the high A

Organizational Effectiveness-What great employers do:

  • Select good people and find ways to motivate them
  • Define clear specific expectations of each employee hired by providing a job
    description and annual performance review at date of hire
  • Praise and give recognition when a job is well done
  • Provide guidance and correction when mistakes happen- we call these teachable moments
  • Care for people and treat them the way they want to be treated, not the way you want to be treated
  • Set expectations that are clear and that use SMART goals- specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time framed
  • They use actions, words, examples and metaphors and vividness to share the mission of the company and the common purpose and goals they share together supporting a common cause
  • They use clarity as the anecdote of uncertainty

Organizational Effectiveness-get them emotionally involved

If your team comes to work looking to enjoy themselves, looking to be stretched, challenged, inspired, and to get involved, then you have a big chance of getting the very best out of them.

Four disturbing emotions for employees:

  • 1 bored- not engaged
  • 2 unfulfilled- enjoys acting on values
  • 3 frustrated- strengths not in sync
  • 4 drained- the job saps your energy

Organizational Effectiveness   Conclusion

Want organizational effectiveness?  Then remove these disturbing emotions for your employees by providing them with a chance to share in a bright future, treating them with respect and fairness and by informing
them of what is actually expected of them.

Want to excel at work?  Then learn was is expected of you and get that high A!!!

George Napoli is both an author: Be Thinkful©, as well as an entrepreneur having coached and trained thousands of employees and entrepreneurs in high level skill sets in Leadership, Six Sigma, Management Training and a wide range of high level- life changing skill sets like thinking, creativity and innovation and change.  I hold Masters Certificates in Human Resource Development, Strategic Organizational Leadership and a Master Black Belt in Six Sigma, all from Villanova University.

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New Skills Development Strategies Innovation Can Change Your Destiny-Life’s Path

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Innovation Can Change Your Destiny-Life’s Path Or Help You Become A Fast Tracker In Your Carrers Or Business

New Skills- Innovation Can Change Your Destiny- Life's Path

New Skills- Innovation Can Change Your Destiny- Life's Path

New skills development strategies-  what’s in this title?

Besides some  great insight on innovation, we also use the term destiny for those listeners  that believe “destiny prevails, ”and for those doubters that believe destiny does  not exist let alone prevail,  we use the  term life’s path as the meaning behind destiny.

New skills -defining innovation

What is innovation? According to Merriam-Webster, innovation is:

Main Entry:   in•no•va•tion: noun

1 : the  introduction of something new

2 : a new  idea, method or device

New skills –innovation quote

 “Without change there is no innovation,  creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a  better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.”- William Pollard

New Skills- what is destiny noun/

1.The events  that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future.

2.The hidden  power believed to control what will happen in the future; fate.

New skills destiny quote

“Destiny is no matter of chance. It  is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be  achieved.” –  William Jennings Bryan quotes

New skills- a new year

With the New  Year and the birth of 2012, most people view the holiday as a reflective  period, as they transition into a New Year.   The New Year for most people is about stopping or quitting something  they don’t like and want to change about themselves, or it’s the creation of promises  for an improved and better you.

So let’s  look at this subject as a way to potentially make 2012 not only a great year,  but potentially one that will change your life, your so called destiny and life’s path.

New skills innovation, change and creativity

You can’t  talk about innovation without talking about change and creativity.  At the core of innovation lies the need for  improvement.  That’s where the change
comes in.  At the core of innovation lies  creativity.  Creativity is clearly the
catalyst for change, innovation and improvement.

But  innovation is not about stopping smoking, quitting biting your nails or a way to  support the promises we make to ourselves in the form of resolutions.  So keep reading to learn more about what we  mean when we say:  innovation and change  your destiny and life’s path.

To do that,  we need to dial in a little deeper into innovation, sometimes referred to as an idea.  An idea is useful only to the inventor unless it is offered to the public. If the idea improves some product, process or service for the public, then that idea transforms into an innovation.

An innovation can be big or small. Brand-new, or just a bit different: it doesn’t
matter. An innovation can be clearly complex or seemingly simple.  Innovations are often thought of in terms of technical achievement, but can also be a design or process improvement: how you do things. A new product idea, something that solves a problem for example.  The type, industry and style of innovation are irrelevant:  an innovation’s impact determines its qualification.

By now, you are probably asking, innovate, me changing my life, my destiny by innovating.  I don’t see it, or this isn’t me.  And hey, by the way, how many people really develop breakthrough innovations that can change their lives anyway?

OK, I can agree with these truths about true breakthrough innovation, but let’s go a little further to get our arms around innovation as a basic skill set that can
work for you before we move on looking for the next quick fix or shiny push
buttons that just don’t exist.  Along the way I will also show you how to innovate at work to grow personally and professionally…maybe even get you promoted by being seen as a Fast Tracker and go to person.

New skills- and three types of innovation

  1. Sustaining innovation- these are incremental variations, small and minor changes to a theme or project
  2. Breakout  innovation- those that significantly increase the level of play with an existing category.
  3. Disruptive innovation-something just short of break through innovation: yet large enough to cause a disruption to the current way of doing things

New skills-one simple action can change your life and your business-my personal story as an example.

So I’m playing golf on a really hot afternoon: mid 90’s and I can’t seem to drink enough water.  I’m in the middle of a sand trap 165 yards from the green when I look down and see a putter in my hand.  If you’re not a golfer, you may not realize that as a big problem, since a putter is used for short distances and rolling the balls on greens.

So now I realize I am probably dehydrated.  I get through the round and start thinking about how I can drink more water to avoid this problem in the future.  Everyone knows water is bland and not really fun to drink.  But when I think back to times when drinking it was easy, I remember the tastes and flavors of water that some eateries served:  lemon water, cucumber water,
even basil water.

Next was my AHA moment when I realized the common denominators were all flavors.  To make a long story short, I jumped both feet into the world of flavoring and developed the first natural flavor drops to enhance the taste of water specifically then on to tea, coffee and dairy products.

The brand is Yum Drops Flavoring and it is now the number 1 natural flavor concentrate and flavor drop on the internet, with over 50 flavors, serving 23 countries and with 165 sales affiliates.  True story and a real life example of how innovation can change your life and affect your life’s path and with some mental energy and diligence, you can do the same.  It surely changed mine.  Check out my innovation at www.yumdropsflavoring.com

New skills-the power of innovation

Innovation is actually an inherent talent.  That means everyone has it.  Surprisingly many of us don’t think we have this skill.  Let’s look at the power of innovation.  If you’ve ever marveled at somebody’s creative prowess, guess what, you can create and innovate too. It just takes time. Everyone is born creative. The box of crayons in kindergarten was not limited to those who possessed potential; because the truth is, everybody has potential.

You know how long it took to learn to ride a bike, or drive, or to never commit the same mistake again? It’s the same with innovation. It takes some practice and a lot of time before this skill set comes easily-when you want it, at the snap of a finger.

A single harmless snow flake can cause an avalanche.”

Our next  post will teach you the keys to innovate and once you have them, you can open  the doors to them anytime you want, in any area of your life: work, play,  whatever.  Along with that, I will even give you the insight and strategies to make 2012 a year of innovation, improvement and change, so that even you can in fact: change your life.  Innovation can change your life

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Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools/ Free Education Resources Online

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Free Education Resources Online

Welcome to the Top 50 Free Websites2011 Skills and Performance Tools, Published by Learn New Skills Blog- The #1 Trusted Resource For Skill Development Strategies: Grow Yourself, Grow Your Business: Including A Combination Of Free And Inexpensive Skills And Internet Performance Tools For Online Marketing.

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We have two themes behind the top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance tools: 

1.  No Money?  No Problem!!! 

2.  Using skills and performance tools together is ike magic!!!

Learn more about this top 50 listing by scrolling to the bottom of this blog and read the Intro.  It all started in this posting and it will give you more insight to the listing and our storyline why we chose this list and employees and managers as our listeners.  See Universal World of Entrepreneuer’s for the full story.

Free education websites for 2011ranks to the top of our top 50 list and is the beginning of the top 50 listing.  The first 40 already published has brought in hundreds of positive comments.  It sounds like we hit this one out of the park.  We’re excited so many people have positive comments, and see these resource as something very useful.  That makes my efforts meaningful and rewarding.

There were two comments that stand out:  1 was from an internet marketer:“I charge for this and you’re giving it away for free.” That tells me the list is right on point. 2 “action requires knowledge, now I can get to work”.  Keep the positive comments, they are appreciated it.  Also, please share this list with your friends and colleagues.  They will appreciate it too.

We hope this list continues to bring insight and value to everyone who reviews it as a great resource tool for free skills and tools for personal improvement and internet marketing performance.

Top 10 Free Education Resources Online For 2011

When it comes to free education online, these top 10 free resources are the best of the best.  I think they top the other four categories as well.  Learning new skills is paramount to your future successes, personally and professionally.  We really believe that!!!

No tuition money? No problem!

There are many websites and top universities that offer free learning and training programs and courses right online. This list ranks the best of the free websites and online learning university courses available for people who want to enhance their personal knowledge or advance in their current fields.

From leadership training, project management, absolutely anything you want to learn, these 10 free websites can accommodate you.  Our candidates include top universities, online training programs, educational programs in every subject, and seamless educational websites that provide everything you could ever want in new skills, with a click of the mouse.

Universal World Of Entrepreneur's
Universal World Of Entrepreneur’s, Where Everyone Resides

Statistics tell our story and the facts don’t lie.  In the Universal World of Entrepreneur’s and Employees, where everyone of us resides, less than 5% of business owners and employees have all the skills
necessary to run or manage a successful business. On the other side of the same coin, that means 95% of employees and entrepreneurs need to enhance their knowledge and skill sets.  Everyone competes in this Galaxy no matter what their profession or business.  They include a cast of colleagues and
competitors we call Rising Stars, Fast Trackers, Exiting Talents and Wannabe’s.

There is no better place for managers and business owners to start honing those educational skills than right here.

Mind Tools # 1 Winner Overall Top 50 Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools
Mind Tools # 1 Winner Overall Top 50 Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools

# 1 Ranked Free Education Resource Online And Ranked 1 Out of 50 Aa the best of the best-Mind Tools

Why this website that competes with some of the top universities in the world, as well as other online educational websites.  “This website is about as
seamless and user friendly as they come!”

This website is also listed under entrepreneurs resources also, but makes the best of the best in education overall as our top pick.  This site provides a wide variety of essential skills for an excellent career.  It provides education for you if you are an entrepreneur as well.  Including training in:  Leadership Skills, Team
Management, Strategy Tools, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Project
Management, Time Management, Stress Management, Communication Skills, Creativity Tools, Information Skills, Career Skills.  This is the only website that gets an expose’ in two categories…my hats off to them.  Bravo!!!

# 2 Ranked Free Education Resource Online-The Open University

Open University creates and provides quality, innovative online learning opportunities to anyone who wants to improve their technology, literacy and math skills needed to be successful in both work and life. By delivering over 750 different lessons to millions of people in over 200 countries and territories ABSOLUTELY FREE, GCFLearnFree.org is a worldwide leader in online education.  From arts and science to business and management programs, all for free.  Complete activities to assess your
progress and compare your thoughts with sample answers. 

# 3 Ranked Free Education Resource Online-Wikipedia

If you are conducting any kind of research, especially for finding out about websites, you will use this site for sure, just by default.  If you research a term or concept, this company typically comes to the top of the page with an answer.  Wikipedia (i/ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdiə as they pronounce it is a free web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.  Its 20 million articles (over 3.78 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site, and it has about 90,000 regularly active contributors. As of July 2011, there are editions of Wikipedia in 282 languages. It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet ranking sixth globally among all websites on Alexa and having an estimated 365 million readers worldwide. It is estimated that Wikipedia receives 2.7 billion monthly page views from the
United States alone

# 4 Ranked Free Education Resource Online- GCFLearnfree.org/

When it comes to home study courses, this site has the basics covered for employees looking to get on a fast track to learning new skills.  For the entrepreneur, learning
new skills is the hallmark of all great leaders.  They cover the basics for computers, careers, internet basics office suite and more.

# 5 Ranked Free Education Resource Online-Alison

Their claim is: they are the world’s leading free online learning resource for basic and essential workplace skills. Alison provides high-quality, engaging, interactive multimedia
courseware for certification and standards-based learning.  All courses on this site are accessible for free to individual learners.  It is their belief that through Alison, the cost of access to high-quality education can be removed.  That’s what we’ve been talking
about in education.  No money, no problem, no excuse.  Learn new skills today.

 6 Ranked Free Education Resource Online- Tech Tutorials

Just as their name implies, this site offers thousands of free computer tutorials covering a wide range of computing topics such as: Photoshop, Linux, Windows 7, virtualization, computer hardware, programming, and much more. In fact, TechTutorials, covers nearly all aspects of computing.   They have a separate site completely dedicated to computer hardware tutorials as well.  If you are interested in computer certifications such those offered by Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA, LPI, and others, you should start by reading their Introduction to Computer Certifications. Learn how to save a ton of money on certification books, practice tests, CBT training and other materials by reading Learn How To Get Certified… For Less!

7 Ranked Free Education Resource Online- Stumble Upon

StumbleUpon helps you discover interesting web pages, photos and videos recommended by friends and like-minded people.  There is a ton of information on
this site.  Why waste your time searching for what you are looking for in the vast internet when this site can save you a lot of time.  They help you find more information
related to your interests than you may not think to look for.

8 Ranked Free Education Resource Online-Kutztown University
of Pennsylvania

On-Demand Online Learning Programs.  This site offers over 90 Online Learning
Programs and adding new ones all the time. This is one of the largest collection of free on-demand entrepreneurial training resources available in the United States as part of their “Success Network”.  The benefits of the online courses to an entrepreneur, small business owner, or start-up business are: Learn from the start or brush up on business concepts.  Courses are available anytime. Watch videos, play, pause, and rewind.  Current content keeps you updated on business issues.  Access over 70 business courses, 24/7.

 # 9 Ranked Free Education Resource Online-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

MIT OpenCourseWare is supported through the generosity of people like you, who
believe that unlocking knowledge can empower minds.  While the educational information is free, they do request donations by credit card.  Find Courses in Architecture and Planning, Engineering, Health Sciences and Technology, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Management, Science, Other Programs, as well as Cross-Disciplinary Courses, Supplemental Resources.

10 Ranked Free Education Resource Online- creatingminds

Welcome to the world of CreatingMinds.   This is a simple and easy website with a
primary goal that provides you with real and useful principles, tools, articles
and quotes about all matters around being creative and using creativity. Being
creative is a great skill set and one that everyone should learn to enhance.

When you talk about great  thinking, you can’t be a great thinker without being creative.  Thinking is a two dimensional skill set.  These are two skills critical to enhance your
value proposition.  You can learn more about thinking and creativity at http://www;learnskillsets.com

 Top 10 reasons to use free education resources online:

1.    Top free education resources online-you want to continue learning and growing

2.    Top free education resources online- you need to shore up some skills to perform better

3.    Top free education resources online- you want to be a rising star or fast tracker

4.    Top free education resources online-you understand the value of education

5.    Top free education resources online- you want to increase you personal value proposition

6.    Top free education resources online-your tired of others getting the good jobs

7.    Top free education resources online-you want to be the next one promoted

8.    Top free education resources online- you have a passion for learning

9.    Top free education resources online- you want to enhance your core disciplines and skill sets

10.    Top free education resources online- great leaders lead by example and continued learning is what great leaders do

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