All posts tagged "standing out from the crowd"

• Confidence

  Personal Impact & Branding at UBS

  I was asked to do a short input to a group of potential investment bankers at UBS, London, a few weeks ago....

• 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,...

• Stand Out

  Q. How much should we say in a presentation?- depends what the customer wants

  It’s all about knowing your audience isn’t it? If you don’t know what will ‘fit’ for them, you’re almost always forced into...

• Case studies

  Charles Crawford- A model of diplomacy

  I went to a speechwriter’s conference last year- The UK Speechwriter’s Guild event, in Bournemouth, and I saw Charles Crawford speak.  I...

• Stand Out

  Principles- how quaint for a salesman?

  Whenever I say to someone ‘I’m a salesman’, it seems to put them on their guard.  Why? Probably because the reputation of...

• 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...

• Fit Focus Flair

  What makes a great consultant?

  I was asked this very pertinent question the other day, and I answered it, lazily, as follows- Your clients love your work and...

• Delivering your presentation

  6 pieces of tomfoolery that some public speaking coaches tell you… and why they're wrong

  Philip Larkin, late, lonely, lovely English poet, wrote a short and bitter little thing that leads us into why so much rubbish is...

• 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...