I speak fluent french (mum was a french & spanish teacher). I lived in the South of France for a few months after university and I’m proud of my skill and accent, so when I’m in France and I speak in french to a frenchman (and it’s almost always a frenchman) I’m a little pissed off…
He’s a great guy, Rodrigo. He’s a senior exec in a very successful European company. We’ve worked with him for a couple of years and done some good stuff, we’ve earned a place at his table, if you like. Rod’s a demanding, reliable and honest business contact and friend. So we were over in his city…
Last week I asked you if you knew about how much help was available to save your life in this recession. Now here’s some more good advice, to help you build on that, from a reliable source. In May 2009, Omniture asked 120 US-based Marketing Managers to rate the relative effectiveness of their digital-marketing media….
Ok. it’s not ideal but sometimes were called upon to make a speech with little or no time to prepare, so what do we do? We spend the time on structure not content, that’s what. Structure is the skeleton of the speech and just enough structure allows us the freedom to fill in the gaps…
Dinosaurs died out a few million years ago didn’t they? Why? Because they didn’t know what was coming and had no defence against the cold. How many dinosaurs in our business are dying from the cold right now? Millions I’d guess. Leviathans with fancy offices in London, New York, Paris Munich… (everybody’s talking ’bout….),…
I was asked this very pertinent question the other day, and I answered it, lazily, as follows- Your clients love your work and ask you back to do more at the next opportunity. You make money. Then someone said- “But what about doing a great job, objectively? Making a real difference, rather than just having your…
Because there’s always a little hint or tip that we’ve picked up along the way Don’t distribute handouts at the beginning or during your talk. People will read them rather than listen to you. Mention at the outset the handouts will be available after the talk so that the listeners don’t have to take notes….
Remember that great visuals support the spoken words and the speaker. They are there to emphasise your key points, not to make them. Such visual emphasis will help the audience understand what you mean, not just what you say. Here’s 10 tips from all of our years of helping the message get through. Do the visuals only after…
You are most often the final ingredient that makes a good presentation on paper go well in the real world. Meet people (even if you know them) as they come into the room, shake hands, have a brief chat with them to help show your confidence and ‘break the ice’. Show enthusiasm for the subject….