Posts By Jim Harvey
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Personal Impact
Personal Impact (PI) for Professionals- how to get it and how to use it
For my friends, colleagues and acquaintances at MMC and ‘The Vine’. Here’s a ‘taster’ of some of the things we might cover...
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1.4K1Connecting with the audienceThe Secret to Connecting With an Audience – ‘They who honour me, I will honour…’
The full quotation is: “They who honour me, I will honour. They who despise me I will disdain.” It was used, memorably, in...
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Personal Impact
Bad language, Balotelli, and international audiences
Mario Balatelli is the 20-year old soccer player who won ‘man of the match’ in the UK’s FA Cup Final in 2011....
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Fit Focus Flair
How Microsoft killed the art of public speaking- Ed Reid’s Blog
Here’s another funny piece to make you think, from Ed Reid, a brilliant independent consultant based in the UK . How Microsoft killed...
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Stand Out
Be better understood- Speaking in English to an international audience
In my 20 years of speechwriting, coaching and conference presenting, I’ve noticed that, ironically, it’ s most often native English speakers who...
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2.8K1Fit Focus Flair
Speechwriting and songwriting- Same difference
One of the key skills in developing ‘Flair‘ as a speechwriter and presenter, is learning to use the ‘tricks of the trades’...
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2.3K1Stand Out
Obama’s speech ‘tricks’- easy to learn if you know how.
President Barack Obama is used so often as an example of a great speaker by ‘experts’ that he’s almost become a cliche....
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2.2K2Confidence
Management Speak Works- If you want to distance yourself from events
Here’s a great article on FT.com about the use of management speak in the London held inquests into the deaths of the...
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Stand Out
Blaggers and Bloggers Beware- The recent changes at Google and what they mean for your business
Here’s some sound advice from a friend of mine, Mark Richards at Simple Words. In short- Bluntly, Google don’t want their search...
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