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While I was planning for a keynote I gave this past week, I made a quiz about product brands and catchy phrases. Here are some of them — see if you can name who they stand for: Snap! Crackle! Pop! I overheard a presenter using PowerPoint recently say: “On this next slide, there’s a lot of information and it’s sort of complicated, so I’m not going to spend a lot of time on it.“ He was in complete command and knowledge of the content, but this still slips out. And, sadly, I’ve heard it and [...] Even if you are politically opposed to Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, you cannot deny that he has burst on the national political scene. It is rare that we get an audience as focused as he enjoyed last night — ‘normal’ Senators share the election spotlight across 50 states and the District of Columbia. [...] In a conversation with someone who believes in what I do, they told me, “You are giving people a gift. You convince them the pain of public speaking is survivable.” As someone who long ago overcame a fear of presenting in public (now I LIKE it!), it’s hard to remember those fears (the Curse of [...] I listened to an audio summary of Stephen R. Covey’s “The Speed of Trust” today. There’s some good stuff in there. This blurb drew my attention: “We (the speakers) judge by intent; they (the audience) judge by observable behavior. You need to declare your intent to actively influence the conclusions others draw about your behavior, or [...] I’ve run into a lot of people networking lately, and the icebreaker and #1 question on everybody’s mind is “What do you do?“. How I answer that question usually determines where the conversation will go. I have lots of proven ideas and techniques for HOW to deliver the message — it’s the message that everybody seems [...] I love the hope a New Year brings. I hate the realization that it seldom comes to pass. I’ve spent the better part of the last quarter thinking about what I want to accomplish in 2010. In a discussion the other day, I asked bluntly, “What is a manager’s job?“ I had some ideas already, and [...] |
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