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Week nine of the Carnegie course focused on demonstrating leadership and developing flexibility.  In the first half of the lesson, we each gave a talk about how we’ve practiced leadership at work.  We practiced employing the persuasion template – ‘There I was…’, ‘If you will…’, ‘The benefit will be…’ that we learned in lesson four. [...]

Session seven of the Carnegie course focused on gaining others’ cooperation.  We emphasized Carnegie’s principles of influence.  We discussed each of the principles and various techniques for applying them.  One technique that I learned and liked was the leading question.  That is, instead of ordering – “Do X”, or even suggesting – “Let’s do X”, [...]

In the fifth Carnegie session, we each gave two speeches.  The first was called an animation speech.  We incorporated demonstrative actions as we talked.  We were encouraged to animate and gesture as we explained how to do something.  The objective was two-fold: overcoming self-consciousness and speaking better by gesturing more. The second speech was on [...]