All posts tagged "Confidence"

• Delivering your presentation

  The price of public speaking!- Here’s 5 things that brilliant presenters have to sacrifice

  Here’s a collection of thoughts on the pursuit of brilliance.  More of a ‘stake in the ground’ than a statement of fact,...

• Delivering your presentation

  Pitching- If you’re not committed you’ll fail and hate yourself anyway

  Here’s a great clip from YouTube with Michelle Pfeiffer explaining how she got the most important role in her life- Elvira, in...

• Business Development

  You’re on your own- Your bankers and accountants know almost nothing that will help you move ahead

  As a bloke who has built a few businesses up from nothing to sale, starting with no brand, no clients, no capital,...

• Business Development

  Why you might pitch even though you know you’ll probably lose

  Sometimes it’s much easier to pitch with almost no hope of actually winning because you can be.  Er… honest. I  was involved...

• Confidence

  How well can you expect to do if it’s the first time you’ve said those words out loud?

  I read an article a few years ago about travelling preachers in 19th Century America.  There were hundreds of the faithful fellows,...

• Confidence

  When telling is a dead giveaway: someone’s trying too hard

  There’s a word for it. It’s called ‘a tell’.  It’s when a speaker ‘tells’ the audience about something without saying anything. There...

• Confidence

  The confidence myth: why confident presenters often miss the point

  I’ve got a friend called Quentin.  He’s an actor and a good one too with a long track record of theatre, stage...

• Fit Focus Flair

  93% of the message is complete twaddle. The truth is much better

  We’ve all heard the numbers- 7% of your meaning is contained in the words you say; 35% in the vocal delivery and...

• Confidence

  Sometimes the only thing you can do is laugh: corpsing for professionals

  Sometimes, often when you least want it to happen, usually at the most serious moment, something happens.  A phrase comes out wrong...