All posts tagged "Confidence"
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2.2K1ConfidenceWant to be a brilliant speaker? Try this
My 13-year-old son asked me to let him show me his football skills the other day. I was delighted, because until that...
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1.8KConfidenceCall yourself a platform speaker – you’re missing something. Learn from the Porsche 911
If you’re still using PowerPoint with a ‘clicker’ stood behind a lectern, you’re gathering dust faster than a dozing grandaddy. It’s not...
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16.8KConfidenceAmy Cuddy at TED: Your body language shapes who you are
In this fascinating TED talk, social psychologist Amy Cuddy starts with two good questions: Our non-verbals govern how other people think and feel...
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5295ConfidenceThe 5 most irritating things that good presenters do but great presenters don’t
We all have good and bad days as presenters. I think that complacency is a performer’s most dangerous (legal) habit. In pondering the...
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209BooksMalcolm Gladwell on connecting with an audience
You know who he is. He’s the zeitgeist shaping writer of such popular classics as ‘Outliers’, ‘The Tipping Point’ and ‘Blink’. He’s...
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589ConfidenceThe golden first few minutes of a presentation – start really well
Remember that the first 2 minutes of a presentation – when you’re probably at your most nervous are also are the point...
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Charisma
10 questions for the would be charismatic speaker- or remember who paid for your Ferrari?
In my previous post I talked a bit about charisma as the defining characteristic of any speaker. Here’s the acid-test. How do...
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Charisma
Presentation advice from a 9-year old: Don’t try to be cool
I work abroad a lot, and I spend 50 day plus a year in Barcelona that beautiful, hot, dripping in culture city...
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Confidence
How Steve Jobs and Nature Fill a Vacuum- be positive
Here’s a much used clip of Steve Jobs launching the Mac-book Air way back in 2008. I think that Steve Jobs was...
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