All posts tagged "influencing"

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  Delivering your presentation

  So what’s this Fit, Focus & Flair?

  Fit Your presentation should be built with the needs of your audience at the front of your mind and in all of...

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  Confidence

  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...

• Delivering your presentation

  The best business presenters know that public speaking is Entrepreneurial Skill

  Here’s a great thought for entrepreneurs.  That the skill is not in having the idea, but in being able to convince your...

• Connecting with the audience

  How to Engage Any Presentation Audience

  Lovely post from  Rhett Laubach at ‘Authencicity Rules’ on ways to ‘build a bridge’ between a speaker and an audience. Authenticity Rules: Top...

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  Stand Out

  Is David Starkey a racist? Maybe but I wish he’d just get some manners

  In all of the blah blah blan about Mr Starkey’s appearance on ‘Newsnight’ to discuss the riots and their causes, there’s one...

• Stand Out

  The simplest story structure for presenters

  Most corporate presentations lack that little bit of  ‘story structure’ that is the foundation of making sense to, and being remembered by, the...

• Fit Focus Flair

  Motivating Geeks- a Lesson for us all

  I’ve been working in Barcelona again this week, with a global pharmaceutical company, and here’s a small, but significant lesson I learned...

• Confidence

  How to undermine your point with weak language

  Imagine the scene.  You’ve spent days preparing a major presentation to a new client, and you’re coming to the end of the...

• Stand Out

  Speakers need this much more than presentation training-

  I’ve mentioned Orwell before- See here.  And it’s still my view, as a speechwriter and presentation coach,  that if more speakers followed...