Bowling at Strike Bethesda

We had so much fun.... here is the pictures....

Maria, we look forward for the pool play!

Strike - Dec 8 is coming!

Greetings...

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving weekend last week.

Six months ago, we were standing in front of the Dale Carnegie Class, giving speech about what we are going to do on Dec 8, achievement that is significant in our life.

Today is a week before that day... where are we now? Let's share and have some fun at at Strike bowling in Bethesda (www.strikebethesda.com).

Please response to the group ( dc-v2412@googlegroup.com> by Tue night so I can make reservation. I was thinking we start at 5 PM till 9 PM (people who want to stay partying can do so).

If there are enough participants, I will make a reservation to Strike.
Please feel free to contact me for any questions.

Best,

Brian's Summer Party Jul 2007

Dale Carnegie Sales Training

Just last week I attended the graduation class for two of our employees who took the sales course. Very impressive. The class members had to give a seven minute sales presentation to the group. It was amazing to watch them go through the sales process that was centered on human relations. The top student in that class had not even started her first sales job yet her presentation was as polished as any sales veteran. If anyone has the need for a sales class this is it. I have been through a number of them in my career but none that seemed to spark the enthusiasm of students quite like this one did. Our employees had nothing but great things to say about the class. Check out a graduation if you get the chance. I hope everyone had a wonderful summer!

Long Time No Blog...

...because I've been so busy preparing to move to PA!!! That's right, I finally got offered a position in the human resources department in a store in PA. A Wegmans of course!

Look Forward, The Future Is Better.

Hi All,

It has been a while we are out of touch. How was your Jul 4th? I went to Canada during the week of July 4th. I had a great experience of fishing in one of the lake in Ontario and driving around the country!

I just wanted to share with you my last week story. I wish I could have 'assignment' every day and week to practice DC principals.

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It was about 11 AM on Friday morning, Carmen (not the real name) called me on my desk. We had been having long weeks since we are going to have an audit by government. (Even I went for a week vacation, the stress built up very quickly in the office as we worked hard to prepare the data for the audit reports).

She was in charge of getting the reports from various people and compiled it to send for the consultant to get us better preparation. However, she didn't know how to send electronically large number of files. She sounded so stressful, and I recognized it right away, and answered her with pleasant voice and smile. We had some misunderstanding in the past that cost us time and relationship.

This time before we discuss on what she needs, I mentioned to her that I could hear from her voice that she was so tense, and I could understand that she had to juggle around with various people asking things she may not know what to ask. She admitted that's how she felt, her tone voice started to change to more relax. I am more relax too. I could offer her the assistance she needed, and we had a better conversation after that. By the end of the day, what we needed to accomplish was completed.

From this experience, I learned that recognizing other people feeling and where they stand will make the communication a lot better!
Have a great weekend!

Wed afternoon - Golf

Greg Gratton and myself, Paul Grim are playing golf on Wednesday, June 27^th at Augustine Golf Club in Stafford, VA. We have a tee time for 2PM and need two more to join us for a foursome. Email me or Greg if you are interested. The cost is $40 for 18 holes.

by Paul Grim

Jun 26 Top Golf - Sat night -

Who's up for some Top Golf this coming Saturday night?

E-mail dc-v2412@googlegroups.com


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Paul Grim

Magic Formula - How to post to the blog?

Hi All,

Blogging is a new world to me, and I think I have the advantage of liking exploring this new world... As you may have known, I like the challenge. The blog site we are using is a part of Google Products. It's a good exercise for me to learn more about Google products, since I am going to teach " Google Mania: What can Google do for your for FREE? " on Saturday, June 23, 2007. Please take a look at http://www.takeaclass.org to see the description of the course.

Many of you having questions on how to post to the blog?

The step you need to take is first, you have to accept the invitation to be a blog contributor, and once you accept that, the e-mail you sent to fadoli.dc-v2412@blogger.com will be automatically posted to our blog (website): http://dc-v2412.blogspot.com .

I took the sample the great e-mail that Dan sent on " A 2 Minute Magic Formula incident", which is very inspiring and encouraging us to practice DC principles. What he will need to do is to send the same e-mail to fadoli.dc-v2412@blogger.com. He will be credited as the Contributor and his story will be automatically available on our blogsite. Yes, that e-mail address has my id there as the blog was under my account :-).

So, if you have similar stories, announcement, or something you want to share to the world, you can just e-mail it to:
fadoli.dc-v2412@blogger.com

If you have difficulties to remember our blog website address, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, or Fire Fox have bookmark feature you can use and for the e-mail address, you can save it in your address book.

In any rate, the action I want you to do is to accept the invitation and you will be part of this great technology!

PS. Please make sure before you send your blog posting to fadoli.dc-v2412@blogger.com, you may want to delete your signature, so it won't be published it to the whole world. Otherwise, you can edit it later... (I will write another posting for this).

Happy Blogging!


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Agus "Etcera"

Rain or Shine - Barbeque Party

Keep your date open on Jul 28 for our first barbeque party hosted by Brian Dusek.

As this is a public site (available on internet), I won't send the detail address of Brian's home.

This is what he explained on the e-mail:

"We are located in the AU Park / Tenleytown Neighborhood in NW DC - 4 blks straight west of the red line Metro stop, which is 4 stops up from Dupont Circle or 2 stops down from Bethesda (yes, I will send all the direction info as the date gets closer)."

So, please RSVP to Brian Dusek through our e-mail group, dc-v2412@googlegroups.com.

Enthus me!

There I was, three weeks ago considering learning new things in aquarium hobby, maintaining a reef tank! This aquarium hobby has been an incremental hobby for me. I started with one small aquarium, now I have 6 aquariums from 5.5 Gallon to 64 Gallon.

About two weeks ago, I found a good deal of used complete Saltwater Aquarium systems including fish, live rocks and corals through Craigslist. I bought them, I wasn't usually a compulsive buyer, but with fish and aquarium, it was different.

The owner of the tank helped me to deliver and set up the systems for me. It took me the whole weekend to work on it. What I found after I set up my tank, my basement started looked like places with boxes, aquariums, buckets, nets and other fish tank accessories, nothing really to be proud of.

I remembered in session 4, I told the DC class: The old me, who were moving constantly, and having so many boxes unpacked. The new me, enthusiastically opening the boxes and cleaning up my basement to make up some room.

Those commitment kept hanging over my mind as I didn't reach this goal in session 8. What ashame I was.

Last week, I spent my weekend with full enthusiasm cleaning my basement, making some room for my new tank and its equipments, throwing away unused items, sorting out items for charity.

Now, I have a nice place to display my new saltwater aquarium, 4 boxes ready to go to the charity, a space to walk through, and less stress. Tomorrow, I am planning to drop the boxes to the charity place.

The action I want you to do is to share your commitment to others openly and you will make it happen as you are a responsible person!

Class

I really enjoyed the class and learnt a lot from you all. I have not only learnt the presentation skills but learnt the importance of the Human Resources principles we talked about. Hope we can all get together this thursday at Arlington.

Lost and Found - Sunglasses

There were a pair of sunglasses left in the classroom. If you lost a pair please contact me and I will send them to you.

- Sue Westfall

PS. This message is from Sue Westfall through an e-mail to our Google Group. You will only receive e-mail sent to the group, dc-v2412@googlegroups.com, if you have responded the invite I sent to you a few days ago.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to all of you for completing the Dale Carnegie Course and graduating last Thursday night. While I was at my society's President's Reception that night in Baltimore I thought about all of you and how you all have made a personal impact on me and my leadership and communications skills. Thanks for all that you have shared with me about yourself and your personal life. I look forward to staying in touch via this blog. FYI, our 2007 Annual Conference was a big success, and I used my new DC communications skills in my presentation to our Board of Directors and in our Annual Business Meeting to the 450+ attendees. Thanks Mike and Maria for helping me be a more confident leader. Take care!

Thursday Nights Won't Be The Same

It was a great 13 weeks and getting to know everyone was truly amazing. Thanks for sharing your professional and personal stories. This course and the people it trained and brought together was definitely life altering. I hope we all stay in touch. Perhaps a reunion at some point?? Take care all.

DaleCarnegieClassSpring07

Congratulations to Everyone

Hope and I very much appreciated the opportunity to get to know you all. What a great change in all of us. We learned a lot about ourselves and probably influenced ourselves more then others.

Congrats to Greg for winning the 'best' award and his closing remarks were heartfelt by everyone.

Thanks Mike L. for being an amazing instructor. How you summarized our speeches so well was beyond me. Paul G. was a terrific coach who always kept me well informed.

Thanks - Avery Collins (hopeavery1@cox.net)

Graduation

Congratulations to ALL

Last night was great.It's truly amazing how far all of us have come in 13 weeks. Thanks to everyone for sharing your experiences with me in classes.It really has made me grow in ways that I would never have imaged. A special thanks to all the coaches especially Mike Barber for all you guidance .What will I do with Thursday nights now!!!!!
Thanks "Etecetera" for creating this Blog

Congratulations!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You all are inspirational for others... keep up a good work! It has been a wonderful 3 months. I will miss the friends I get from this class.

Thank you for Mike, you are a great teacher. Your short stories inspire me to be more enthusiastic!

To all coaches and especially Maria, high five to you. Without you, we won't be able to go through the course as far as we did!

I look forward to see everyone in the near future.

Instant Messaging

Instant Messaging

At one time business people had to rely on

running men,

galloping horses,

speeding trains,

and flying planes-

BUT NOOO MORE! Now there’s IMing-the world’s fastest way to send a message!

A Gentleman I Am

A Gentleman I Am
(you are a person retrieving their hat from the hat-check attendant)

A gentle-man I am,

and I don’t like to shout,

But a hat I had when I came in,

and a hat I’ll have when I GO OUT!!

Dennis the Menace

Dennis the Menace
(You are Mr. Wilson finding Dennis brushing the dog’s teeth with your toothbrush)

Dennis, don’t you ever, ever, ever

let me catch you brushing your dog’s teeth

WITH MY TOOTHBRUSH AGAIN!

Clean & Glow

Clean & Glow
(You are the spokesman for a janitorial service and
you are making a television commercial)

Floors look dull? Stains won’t go?

It’s time for a change to CLEAN AND GLOW!

Just shake it up,

And pour it out

Looks sooo good, there can be no doubt

It’s CLEAN AND GLOW!! CLEAN AND GLOW!!

CLEAN AND GLOW!! YEAH!!

Dudley do right

Melodrama

(this is an old black & white television villain)

Villain: I’ve come for the rent.
I’ve come for the rent.

Heroine: But I don’t have the rent. I don’t have the
rent.


Villain: You must pay the rent! You must pay the rent!

Heroine: I don’t have the rent. Who will save me?

Hero: I will save you. I will pay the rent.

Heroine: My hero! (Act out: Smooch, smooch)

Villain: Curses. Foiled again!

Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum!

Fee Fi Fo Fum
(this is an American fable)

Fe! Fi! Fo! Fum!

I smell the blood of a English-man.

Be he alive, or be he dead.

I’ll crush his bones to make my bread.

Flea and a Fly

Flea and a Fly

There was a flea and a fly in a flue

They were imprisoned, what could they do?

Said the flea, “Let’s fly,”

Said the fly, “Let’s flee,”

So they flew through a flaw in the flue.