All posts tagged "role models"

• Blogs

  How do you create an effective presentation? Remember that you’re always pitching when you’re presenting

  Here’s a great post from the ever interesting ‘Idea Transplant’ blog by Jan Schultink, consultant, pitch guru and design enthusiast.  It’s a...

• 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...

• Social Skills

  10 things to build your personal impact- Part 1

  In earlier posts we said that personal impact, simply, is about getting people to like you.  We then promised you some simple...

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  Keeping in Touch

  Be likeable

  When I’m doing my thing with clients, I’m often asked what the single most important element to networking is.  I often answer...

• Case studies

  Steve Jobs- more furious than passionate. So what?

  In my last post I talked about the pointlessness of passion.  And here are a few speakers who were brilliant with no...

• Connecting with the audience

  Passion. Is that all you’ve got?

  It's something that drives me mad. When you hear professional and amateurs alike, talking about 'passion' as the most important element in...

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  Delivering your presentation

  Are you in the UK Speechwriter’s Guild?

  The patients from the Thatcher Memorial home for incurable pedants are occasionally allowed out under supervision I’m a proud member of the...

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  Case studies

  Bullshit Bingo- Ed Miliband’s bargain basement speech

  Here’s a lovely trashing of Ed Miliband’s conference speech last week. It’s by the elegantly uptight Martin Shovel and if you haven’t...

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  Case studies

  How original are you?

  My occasional and much admired colleague, Charles Crawford, shows how using metaphor to make a powerful point, but gently, is an art...