Overcome Anxiety - The Power of Negotiation Joy on the Job Teleseminar Feb. 19th

The Virtual Nation Expert Teleseminar SeriesPresents...

Overcome Anxiety - The Power of Negotiation Joy on the Job

Tuesday, February 19, 200810:00 am ~ 11:00 am Pacific

Join me for one hour to learn all about turning your business challenges around and making them work for you!

Date & Time: Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 10:00 am Pacific, 11:00 am Mountain, 12:00 pm Central, 1:00 pm Eastern (1 hour)

Who Should Attend? Coaches, Entrepreneurs, Sales Professionals, Solopreneurs, and Virtual Professionals of all walks of life.

Overcome Anxiety - The Power of Negotiation

Discover an easy solution to the #1 reason most people don’t feel 100 percent comfortable when negotiating. Learn the fastest way to overcome anxiety when you’re trying to influence another person to take a certain action. Discover a secret formula that can cut your learning curve in half as you elevate your negotiation and persuasion skills. Get paid what you deserve and allow other people to gain rich rewards by helping you achieve your goals.

You will learn:

Three ethical ways to escalate the other person’s enthusiasm about helping you achieve your goals.

Quickly alleviate anxiety about asking for what you need.

Use well-tested “magical questions and phrases” that can ensure your needs are met.


Format: Michelle Ulrich, founder of The Virtual Nation™ will have a one-on-one discussion with Doris Helge. She will share her knowledge and expertise to help virtual professionals to overcome their anxiety and learn the power of negotiation.

Doris Helge, Ph.D., is the "The Joy Coach" Executive Director, New Paradigm Seminars and Author of"Joy on the Job" and"Transforming Pain Into Power"

Doris Helge, Ph.D.’s clients call her “The Joy on the Job Coach.” Dr. Helge is passionate about helping you get your needs met by learning to be a powerful negotiator. Doris is author of many books, including “Joy on the Job” and “Transforming Pain Into Power,” now published in five foreign languages. She is also a trainer and consultant at companies as large as Microsoft. She previously directed two national human service organizations. She has also been on faculty at universities in Texas, Kentucky, and Washington. She has been interviewed on "The Today Show," CNN, and NPR. You’ll be amazed by Doris’ ability to understand and address your unique needs.

About New Paradigm Seminars

“Joy on the Job” and “Develop Powerful Negotiation & Persuasion Skills” are only two of over 100 cutting-edge programs and products provided each year by New Paradigm Seminars. Happiness at work is our specialty. We empower you to create a productive, profitable work life rich in personal fulfillment, meaning, and rewarding relationships. Every seminar, keynote, book, CD, and webinar help you immediately create more joy on the job.

Registration: This is a Complimentary Teleseminar - Just go to http://www.thevirtualnation.com/teleseminar.htm and fill out the form; that's all you have to do! We'll email you the teleseminar telephone and pin number. We'll send a reminder a few days before the call. If you do not receive this information, please email us at info@thevirtualnation.com.

How To Start Writing And Keep Going, No Matter What! Feb 12th

Topic/Title: How To Start Writing And Keep Going, No Matter What!

Expert Trainer: Susan Borkin, M.A. is a licensed psychotherapist, author and speaker. She is the founder of Write Now! a professional practice specializing in the use of writing for personal and professional growth. Susan specializes in helping people overcome creative blocks and achieve deep personal transformation through the use of writing. A personal growth writing teacher for more than twenty-five years, she is the author of When Your Heart Speaks, Take Good Notes: The Healing Power of Writing and Writing From the Inside Out: Using a Journal for Personal Growth & Transformation.

Date/Time: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2008 12:00 NOON – 1:00 PM Pacific Time

Who Should Attend: Writers, New, Beginning and Veteran Writers and basically, anyone who picks up a pen!

Details: WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE IF YOU COULD START WRITING AND KEEP GOING, NO MATTER WHAT? IF YOU’VE PROMISED YOURSELF 2008 WILL BE THE YEAR YOU REALLY START WRITING, BE SURE AND JOIN US FOR THIS TELESEMINAR. WE’LL LOOK AT (PRACTICALLY) FOOL-PROOF WAYS TO GET YOU WRITING AND KEEP AT IT!


The simple household tool that can help you stay focused

How slowing down can speed up your writing

How to make friends with the negative chatter in your head

How regular writing can actually make you healthier


Format: Lecture with question and answer sessions sprinkled throughout.

Registration: This is a Complimentary Teleseminar. Just go to www.susanborkin.com/teleseminar.htm and fill out the form; that’s all you have to do! We’ll email you the teleseminar telephone and passcode. We’ll send a reminder a few days before the call. If you do not receive this information, please email us at admin@susanborkin.com.

Fool-proof Proofreading

As Virtual Professionals, we know that a project can’t only be brilliant and spot on, it must also be spot-less. When it comes to proofreading, we can’t ever have an off day. Every T must be crossed, every comma must be tucked safely into place. The most creative ideas and projects simply lose their luster when returned to us dressed in the glaring red ink of edits and corrections.

For proofreading to really seal the deal however, it must be done at the proper time. Ideally, this is the day after the project is finished – or at least a few hours. Reviewing a project before it cools (or worse, editing as you go) is what good writers call “using a dirty eye.” Great work demands time to sit, and the VP needs time to distance from the material and gain perspective. What sounds like creative alliteration or a great pun at first, may sound pretty foolish after a few hours. (For instance, phrases like “seal the deal” often end up edited out, and for good reason.)

Before you can take out your toolbox, however, you need to have built something worth editing. The pour of ideas and phrases is sometimes like a raging river; other times, it is a trickle that we must coax with all of our might. Editing this flow is like throwing huge rocks into the water. If we do this enough, we will damn up the creativity completely. It is much better to send a “rough” project to a client with great ideas than it is to send a perfectly punctuated bag of rocks. The best scenario, though, is to be creative while building and be editing afterward. We are virtual professionals, and no matter what our specialty, we are joined by the ability to produce brilliant work time after time. Suffocating our process is the last thing we can afford to do.

Once our ideas are solidly in place, and we have had time to stretch and breath – to UNfocus, then we can return and start cutting our diamond out of the coal. Spelling and punctuation are truly the easiest parts of this process. Much more important is the effort to move primary ideas to primary places and secondary thoughts to supporting places. A great piece of work uses two basic rules: 1) No MAIN thought should show up three paragraphs into the copy. In most cases, it’s too weak – and in all cases, it’s too risky. 2) When in doubt, leave it out. The final step to achieving a great product is to “Hemingway” the page. Quite simply, that means blacklining and deleting every spare word or phrase that does not move the message forward.

Proofreading is so much more than knowing the three proper places to use a semi-colon. It is the final, invisible wrapping we put on every project that leaves our desk. Good luck! And remember that if you do need support or you’re not sure when to use that ever-elusive semi-colon or hyphen, a quick note to our Yahoo Group will have the answers flooding back to you at the speed of light.

With gratitude, Michelle Ulrich, Chief Villager

Deep Coaching Teleconference Series

Register now for the upcoming teleconference series!

Topic: Become an Enneagram "Deep Coaching" Practitioner

Date/Time: Tuesdays January 29-May 13, 2008, 6:00-7:30 p.m. Pacific Time

Who Should Attend: Coaches, therapists, spiritual directors, hypnotherapists, bodyworkers, acupuncturists, energy-workers and other holistic professionals who are called to take their work deeper.

Details: You have been called to your professions to help your clients live fulfilling lives, to seek happiness and a deepening connection with the Sacred. Now you have the opportunity to guide their journey to an even deeper level of expanded and empowered perspective. Dr. Roxanne Howe-Murphy, university educator, veteran executive and life coach, teacher and author, is offering Deep Coaching, a Teleconference Series which will give you specific tools and processes to help your clients transform their lives.

Using the Ennagram system for self-knowledge you will learn the following:

· To see your own inner workings clearly
· The essential characteristics, hidden dynamics, motivations, and an internal story of each of the nine personality structures.
· How to awaken the individual to discover what is beyond the patterns of identity that feel like “this is who I am,” to experience expansive presence.

Format: There will be an introductory session, one session on each personality type, and a synthesis session. Teleconferences will be taped and will be available to participants over the course of the training. Course graduates will have access to a special forum of their peers.

Registration: This series includes 11 ninety minute sessions, from January 29 through May 13th. Only $495 or $135/per month for 4 months. Go to http://www.lifewisecoaching.com/certification-program/ and follow the link for desired payment method.