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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...