Posts By Jim Harvey
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Keeping in Touch
Networking inside your circle- 10 simple things to do
I’m speaking at a City (London) networking event next week, for Mercer, a top Actuarial, Imvestment and Outsourcing firm. I’ve been doing...
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Conversational Skills
Networking 101- What to say when someone asks what you do?
It’s a scene that happens so often. You’re chatting and having a lovely time at a work event. The someone asks you...
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1.5KConnecting with the audienceIf you’re serious about improving your presentation skills here’s 5 things we have to tell you
You’re presentation coach will probably never tell you this but if you’re serious about improving your presentation skills, it has to be...
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2.4K9PreziPrezi: Perfect for supervised reading!
I’ve been pretty balanced about Prezi in previous articles. ‘What does Prezi do for a poor speech?’ then ‘Prezi- Is it any...
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Confidence
Presentation skills training – a brilliant actor’s great bit of advice to the nervous presenter
I heard Olivia Coleman, a rising star of the UK stage and small screen give a funny and interesting interview on BBC...
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First Impressions
Elevator Pitch? Hopeless! Try a 3 second tease instead
I’ve talked a few times about ‘elevator pitches’ before, and as so often happens, we like the idea of having an interesting,...
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2.6K4PowerPointUsing PowerPoint for Business Presentations – The Truth
Some research done in Germany earlier this year gives some surprising insight into the best ways of using PowerPoint for business presentations. Business...
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Personal Impact
How to get comfortable giving and receiving strokes
Understanding the ‘stroke economy’ Claude Steiner suggests that, as children, we are all indoctrinated by our parents with five restrictive rules about...
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2.1KPowerPointHow to use PowerPoint brilliantly in one simple image
Here it is. In all of the detail about slide design, visual and verbal channels, psychology, and blah, blah, blah; I’ve finally...
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