{"id":42374,"date":"2016-03-11T10:39:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T17:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=42374"},"modified":"2016-03-28T12:22:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T19:22:56","slug":"winning-friends-influencing-people-nau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/winning-friends-influencing-people-nau\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning friends and influencing people at NAU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before Alex Hayes<\/strong> began Dale Carnegie training at Northern Arizona University, he said remembering names was difficult. Now when he meets new people, he focuses on techniques that make it easier to recall individuals\u2019 names in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about relationships. You have to make connections with people to be a good leader,\u201d said Hayes, who is looking at leadership in a new way as he prepares to graduate from the W. A. Franke College of Business in May.<\/p>\n

Dale Carnegie was a well-known orator and self-help author whose books, including \u201cHow to Win Friends and Influence People,\u201d sold more than 15 million copies. Carnegie was born into poverty in 1888 and cultivated his natural abilities to help himself and others succeed in business environments. He concluded that successful people throughout history were masters of communication skills, and through his Dale Carnegie Institute<\/a>\u00a0set forth to train others in people skills and public speaking.<\/p>\n

The merits of Dale Carnegie\u2019s principles recently became clear to Hayes when he and 19 other NAU students visited with Warren Buffet, one of the world\u2019s wealthiest businessmen. The only diploma on Buffett\u2019s office wall shows his completion of the Dale Carnegie training.<\/p>\n

Buffett shared wisdom and insights with the visiting students. He said, \u201cmany people say cash is king but it\u2019s what you do with it and how much your money can do for others that matters,\u201d recalled Hayes, a principle similar to ideas found in Carnegie\u2019s teachings.<\/p>\n

Accounting major Grace Aire-Oaihimire <\/strong>also travelled to Omaha to meet Buffett and is participating in NAU\u2019s Dale Carnegie training.<\/p>\n

“I have always been very shy, so hearing about the Dale Carnegie training and how it teaches you to not only increase your professionalism, but win friends and influence people, really inspired me to sign up for it,\u201d Aire-Oaihimire said.<\/p>\n

The Carnegie teachings also will help Aire-Oaihimire and Hayes, who work as ambassadors for the college, hosting events, leading college tours, acting as liaisons with other departments and serving as resources for peers.<\/p>\n

NAU is a pioneer by being the first university in Arizona to offer Dale Carnegie training to undergraduate students, said Bernadine Lewis<\/strong>, director of undergraduate programs at the college, which is subsidizing a large portion of the program\u2019s cost for students.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things The W. A. Franke College of Business is known for is professionalism. It\u2019s a characteristic we work hard to help our students develop,\u201d Lewis said. Dale Carnegie training is the highest professional development a person can have and students will be learning about effective networking, etiquette, proper demeanor and conversation skills, Lewis added.<\/p>\n

Along with a one-day Dale Carnegie training this month, designed especially\u00a0for NAU students, individuals in Franke\u2019s Business Leadership Program<\/a> have the opportunity to attend this spring\u2019s eight-week-long training, an impressive supplement for their resumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before Alex Hayes began Dale Carnegie training at Northern Arizona University, he said remembering names was difficult. Now when he meets new people, he focuses on techniques that make it easier to recall individuals\u2019 names in the future. \u201cIt\u2019s about relationships. You have to make connections with people to be a good leader,\u201d said Hayes,…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":42376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1291,1289,1290,1292],"class_list":["post-42374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-alex-hayes","tag-carnegie-training-at-nau","tag-grace-aire-oaihimire","tag-nau-business-leadership-program"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}