Great analysis of Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk by John Zimmer. (No relation to me.) http://mannerofspeaking.org/2010/02/02/analysis-of-a-speech-by-sir-ken-robinson/ I am absolutely in agreement with every point John makes about Ken’s talk! These are all principles I teach and love to see in speakers!
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This week, I coached a Director at a Fortune 100 company who is preparing to deliver an executive summary presentation. Twice a year, “Steve” must present to senior executives an update that includes what his team has achieved, what they are working on, what their prospects are and what they have contributed to the overall…
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I spoke at a conference for proposal managers last week and was reminded of how much business professionals rely on PowerPoint for delivering presentations. The following is an article I wrote forThe Houston Business Journal several years ago. I have rewritten it to share with you…. Has PowerPoint gone from useful tool to emotional roadblock…
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I just read a great series of articles by Andrew Dlugan of Six Minutes Blog fame. Andrew has reminded us that Aristotle wrote the definitive work on what it takes to be persuasive over 2300 years ago. He defines the three aspects of persuasion, Ethos, Pathos and Logos. Then he writes an article about each…
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I just watched a fantastic video at TED.com. Temple Grandin was diagnosed with autistism as a child. She says the world need all kinds of minds, including the autistic minds. Autism is a wide spectrum of symptoms and many autistic minds are brilliant. They think in pictures and patterns, paying attention to the details that…
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Presence is also an external quality that others sense and to which they respond. Other people perceive your presence as a magnetic force and they are drawn to you, because presence is actually a radiation of psycho-physical energy emitted from your body. It is your life force emanating from your body, and it occurs when…
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Wow! I just read a dynamite article on how to prepare for a hard-line interview such as with 60 Minutes. It is found on The Ammerman Experience Newsletter. I know Terri Ammerman and she runs an outstanding media training program. If you are facing a really hard interview with killer media sharks, I encourage you…
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Presence is an inner state of awareness in which your attention is fully focused in this moment. You are “being here and now,” as many other spiritual teachers have instructed. Okay, so where is here and now? It simply means being in your body! That is having attention focused inside your physical body. The only…
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I just saw Meryl Streep accept the Golden Globe Award for best Actress in a Comedy Feature Film. She said she is very clear that she is just the vessel for other’s stories and other women’s lives. But don’t we all know that she has opened herself to be a channel to allow full…
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The opposite of stage fright is presence, the powerful state of being integrated. When you are integrated, all of your human energies, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, are working together, with no part of you split off or dis-integrated. You are connected to your whole Self*, and able to express yourself fully. Athletes know…
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