Session 11 & 12 Homework

Session 11: Be a Human Relations Champion and Inspire Others
Human Relations Champion
Reflect on the Dale Carnegie Human Relations Principles. How have you incorporated them into your normal behavior? Be prepared to give us a 2 minute talk about how you have changed your behavior and applied a principle and what happened. Use the magic formula - incident, action, benefit.

Inspire Others
Prepare a 2 minute talk that truly inspires your audience. Of course, you've earned the right to speak on this topic because it is from your own experience. You must be excited and passionate and you should be eager to share your topic with your audience. Speak with both logic and emotion and use the skills that you've practiced in the Dale Carnegie Course to moves us to action.

Invite a Guest to Session 12
Invite a special someone to help you celebrate your acheivements or invite someone that would like to have a peek into the world of the Dale Carnegie Course. Remember that our final session is on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 6:00 pm at the Marriott.

Session 12: Celebrate Achievements and Renew Our Vision

Celebrate Achievements
Relate an incident that tells us about your major benefit from the program. This is a two minute magic formula talk. Then, renew your vision for the next 6 months - how will you continue to progress after the completion of the program. State your vision in positive, present tense and powerful terms.

Thank You Letter
Some participants in the Dale Carnegie Course are sponsored by the company that they work for and sometimes a family member will pay for the course. For those, who have invested in the course themselves, often there is a mentor that has supported them through the past 12 weeks. To show honest and sincere appreciation for their support, class members are encouraged to write a letter like the one on page R-34 in your course manual. This assignment will help you prepare for the talk (above) in session 12. Make a copy for us.

Session 10: Disagree Agreeably and Manage Our Stress

Disagree Agreeably
No preparation required

Manage Our Stress
Back in session 4, we made a commitment to manage stress and worry using Dale Carnegie Principles. Be prepared to give us a 2 minute talk about how you applied a principle and what happened. Use the magic formula - incident, action, benefit.

Reading Assignment
How to Win Friends & Influence People - Review part 2
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Part 8
(this will help you prepare for your talk!)
The Quick & Easy Way to Effective Speaking - Part 5- ch 14.

The Blog

The great thing about blogs is you can participate and leave comments.........(nudge, nudge)

Session 9: Demonstrate Leadership and Develop More Flexibility

Demonstrate Leadership
Prepare a 2 mnute talk about how you implemented a Dale Carnegie Leadership Principles - principles 22-30. Remember to jump, leap, throw yourself, throw your audience right into the event - no preamble. "My face turned red ...." this is the beginning of my sample. Tell the story, then end it with the action and benefit.

Develop Flexibility
Bring your sense of humor and wear comfortable shoes.

Reading Assignment
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Part 7
The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking - Part 5

Session 8: Build Others Through Recogition and Realize the Power of Enthusiasm

Read the Little Recognized Secret of Success Booklet (10 short pages)
Pick your favorite story and think about how it relates to your life. I like the Armor salesman story and I will tell you why next week.

Realize the Power of Enthusiam -Prepare to talk about how adding 10x more enthusiasm to a task, project or relationship has made a difference. Take 1 minute to show us what it looked like in a magic formula. Jump right into the incident! Remember if you ACT Enthusiastic, you'll BE Enthusiastic.

Build Others Through Recognition
You will be giving your fellow class members the recognition they deserve. Think about the qualities that you respect and why (the evidence).

Reading Assignment
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Part 4, Ch. 6-9 and A Shortcut to Distinction.
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Part 6, Ch 1-3
The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking - Part 5, Ch 12
The Little Recognized Secret of Success Booklet

Session 7: Gain the Willing Cooperation of Others and Commit to Influence Others

Gain Willing Cooperation
You've been working on implementing the GAIN WILLING COOPERATION principles (10-21). Tell us for 2 minutes about an incident in which you applied one of these principles and what happened. End it with the action you'd like us to take and the benefit to us if we do!

Influence Others
We will be discussing principles 22-30 and make commitments to become stronger leaders. Think about leaders that you have known personally and their strengths.

Reading Assignment
1. How To Win Friends and Influence People (Part 4 Ch 1-5),
2. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Part 5: Ch 1)
3. The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking - Ch 11

Session 6: Make Our Ideas Clear and Think on Our Feet

Make Our Ideas Clear
The LIONS talk is a demonstration. You will have 2 minutes to teach us something that you do at your job. Review the guidelines for using props and practice your talk to make sure it can be done in just 2 minutes. LIONS: Language, Illustration, Organize, Narrow subject, Summarize.

Think on Our Feet
We will learn how to "think on our feet" and it will be fun (of course) - no preparation is required.

Reading Assignment
1. How To Win Friends and Influence People (Ch 7 - Ch 12),
2. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Part 4: Ch 1-7)
3. The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking - Ch 8 & Ch 104.
Speak More Effectively Booklet, part 2.

Session 5: Energize Our Communications and Unleash Our Full Potential

Energize Our Communications
Review The Box Factory on page 5.4 of your manual. There will be a Box Factory Championship and usually the winner has memorized the passage.
Prepare a 1 minute talk, telling us about an ACTIVITY, be prepared to act out this talk.

Unleash Our Full Potential
Prepare a 1 minute talk about a topic that you feel strongly about, positively or negatively. This is a magic formula talk so start with the INCIDENT that provides the evidence that supports the ACTION that you want us to take, and the BENEFIT to us when we do.

Reading Assignment
1. How To Win Friends and Influence People (pp. 135-154),
2. The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking - Ch 73.
Speak More Effectively Booklet, part 1.

Session 4: Put Stress in Perspective and Motivate Others/Enhance Relationships

Put Stress in Perspective
We all know people who have overcome difficult situations using Dale Carnegie's techniques for handling stress and worry. We also know people who have let stress and worry overcome them. Prepare a 60 second talk about one of these people that you know and tell us what happened.

Enhance Relationships Application
Prepare a 2 minute report on an experience that illustrates your application of the Human Relations principles (1-9). Don't forget to use the Magic Formula.

Reading Assignment
How to Win Friends and Influence People - part 2, ch 4-6.How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Review Part 1 & 2.The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking - Part 3 ch 7.

Session 3: Put Enthusiasm to Work & Recognize Achievements

Put Enthusiasm to Work
Pay attention as you do your job, interface with others, and get the everyday tasks done. Think; if I added 10x more enthusiasm to this activity, how would it affect the quality, how would it affect others, how would it affect my attitude?Dale Carnegie wrote "...genuine, heartfelt enthusiasm is one of the most potent factors of success in almost any undertaking."Pick an activity and be prepared to SHOW us what it looks like now, SHOW us how it would look with 10x more enthusiasm, then TELL us what the benefit would be. Remember the idea starters that we wrote on the flip chart.

Recognize Achievements
Tell us about an achievement that you are proud of. Prepare a two minute talk about the accomplishment. For this talk you will choose one achievement from your adult life. This will be something for which you had to expend considerable, conscious effort. You'll spend the majority of your talk telling us about how you reached the goal. What obstacles did you overcome? What challenges were there along the way? How did it feel to reach your goal? End the talk with "I'm an achiever because...."

Reading Assignment
How to Win Friends and Influence People - part 1, ch 1-3.
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Part 1, ch 1-3.
The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking - Part 1 1-3, plus page 226.
The Little Recognized Secret of Success booklet