All posts tagged "Confidence"
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3.8K5ConfidenceThe 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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2.5KBooksMalcolm 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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3.4KConfidenceThe 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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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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Presentation skills training – a brilliant actor’s great bit of advice to the nervous presenter
I heard Olivia Coleman, a rising star of the UK stage and small screen give a funny and interesting interview on BBC...
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1.8KConfidence
10 things to make a great first impression
In a previous post here I talked about the importance of making great first impressions when you’re the ‘newbie’ at work. It’s a...
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1.3K1Delivering your presentation
Which mirror? The good one or the bad one?- Developing our skills as platform speakers
I'm never that bothered about seeing the 'evaluation reports' that the crowd fills in after they've heard you speak. I always know...
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