All posts tagged "Best of"
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1.3K7Fit Focus Flair
Elevator pitch? Hopeless. Try a 3 second ‘tease’ instead
We’ve talked for a few times about ‘elevator pitches’, and as so often happens, we like the idea of having an interesting,...
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1.0K6Prezi
What does Prezi do for a poor speech?
Even if it’s a cute pig, it’s still a pig. Isn’t it? So let’s cut the crap about Prezi – Which...
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594Fit Focus Flair
Great presenters always tell lies. Don’t they?
At a fundraiser for the Globe Theatre in London last night. Listening to playwright Howard Brenton talk about ‘Anne Boleyn’, and its...
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2.1K2Fit Focus Flair
Do you ‘over-sell’ the message when you speak? ‘To Fly to Serve’ does it worse
It should be brilliant, but it’s not. It’s BA’s new brand message in wide-screen, film-shot format. British Airways relaunches itself with new slogan...
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7692Charisma
Can you develop charisma?
I’m a speaker, speech writer and speaking coach. I work with very capable people, helping them to show their brilliance to the...
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899Charisma
Great Speeches- Viktor Frankl uses metaphor and a blackboard to make a point
Here’s how to make a great point with metaphor and a blackboard. Viktor Frankl keeps an audience spellbound and makes a point that is...
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1.2K2Delivering your presentation
Public speaking disasters- my worst ever introduction
As a travelling speaker, you don't ask for much really, just the right directions, a decent hotel, a fee, and then a...
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1.7KFit Focus Flair
How to Make Anything Interesting – 5 Rules
I once bought a book by Edward de Bono, called ‘How to be Interesting’. It wasn’t. But it’s a great title isn’t...
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Personal Impact
Personal Impact Tips- 10 skills you can develop
As an addition to the article I wrote for MMC and ‘The Vine’, here’s 10 things you can practice to help you...
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