Blog Entries tagged 'New Power Words'

Powerful Phrases will get you new Results - Eliminate powerless ones

claudia.raab@raabconsulting.com — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Do you want new, better results in your career? Do you want to improve your professional image? Do you want to make a stronger impact when talking and presenting to your colleagues, clients or boss?

If your answer to any [...]

Take "Australia Day" as an attention getter for your opening

claudia.raab@raabconsulting.com — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Happy Australia Day to all our clients and readers! While preparing to celebrate Australia Day the Raab & Raab team was wondering where the word "Australia" comes from. Thanks to Celine's fabulous research skills we now know:

The name Australia derives from the Latin "Australis", meaning "Southern". Since Roman times people were telling stories about an unknown land of the South "terra australis incognita".

However, it wasn't [...]

Quick, easy and effective: Acrostic poems made by you

claudia.raab@raabconsulting.com — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

They are fun, easy to come up with and fabulous when it comes to expanding your vocab: Acrostic poems! Sounds complicated? Not at all: Acrostic poems are simple poems where the first letter of each line forms a word or even a whole sentence (read vertically).

A ustralia - huge country
U nder the southern sky,
S trong winds blowing,
R ivers flowing,
T ime seems to stop.
A bsorb the beauty!
L ove the adventure!
I ndulge in the culture!
A ustralia - [...]

"Sort of" & "pretty much" or How to detect a speaker is not prepared

claudia.raab@raabconsulting.com — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

You're listening to a talk and the presenter is constantly using words like "honestly", "frankly", "to tell you the truth ...", "sort of", "pretty much" and "basically"?

What a pity! When using these words - journalists call them unnecessary since meaningless "fillers" - the presenter is not only giving away that he or she has not rehearsed enough and therefore delivering a poor speech wasting the audiences time.

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"Overshare" is the Word of the Year 2008

claudia.raab@raabconsulting.com — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

At the end of each year editors and language researchers of Webster's New World - renowned for their Dictionaries and Thesauri - are looking forward to one of their most favourite duties: Finding the Word of the Year. “We survey the emerging English of the past year,” says Editor in Chief Michael Agnes, “and choose one word or phrase that captures our imagination – whether with its intrinsic linguistic attributes or by the way it expresses how language reflects changin [...]

How to Get rid of Powerless Words and Improve your Professional Image!

claudia.raab@raabconsulting.com — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Once you've decided you want to improve your professional image to show your expertise and confidence while earning new respect for what you do, make sure you watch your language and avoid powerless words and expressions!

What you say reflects what you are and vice versa: What you are reflects what you say! Check yourself! How often do you use vague phrases like: "That's kind of strange", "That sort of thing happens to me a lot!"

Expressions like "kind of ...", "sort of ..." [...]

Use Powerful Phrases to increase Professional Image

claudia.raab@raabconsulting.com — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Expanding your vocabulary is a great way of increasing your professional image. Eloquent people - people who can express themselves well - are almost automatically perceived as experts. Expanding your vocabulary is also a great way of conquering your fear of public speaking since the richer your vocabulary the more confident you become.

How about this: Instead of "We have to start all over again" simply use "Back to square one." Do you know where this simple but pow [...]