Imagine you're walking around in a protective bubble. Sounds a bit sci-fi, right? But this bubble is your personal space, your sphere of influence. Now, what happens when you let that bubble collapse?
Turning Setbacks Into Stepping Stones.
Rehearse Out Loud
The Essential Warm-Up for Peak Performance
The Magic of Words
What Makes A Speech Memorable?
What do these speeches have in common? Churchill’s wartime broadcasts; Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream”; the Gettysburg Address; Obama’s “Yes, we can” and even Margret Thatcher’s “The lady’s not for turning”.
Don’t panic, this isn’t going to be a political rant. All of these have some common elements that make them memorable and move people to change their thinking and take action. It’s probably not what you think it is at first glance. Check out the video for more.
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How Is A Meeting Like A Dinner Party?
Tired of attending pointless meetings when you could be doing something more productive? If that’s how you feel, wouldn’t you like to make sure that doesn’t happen to the people who attend meetings you arrange?
What if you planned your next meeting the way you plan a dinner party?
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Don’t Ruin Your Sales Pitch.
Have you ever found yourself on the wrong end of a presentation that failed to engage you? There’s something wrong but you just can’t put your finger on it and you tune out.
It happens when the presenter makes one of the biggest and most common mistakes that can cause a pitch or presentation to flop. You don’t want this to happen to your next sales pitch.
Want to know what that mistake is and a simple action you can take to make sure it never happens to you - or your audience?
Press PLAY or a solution born of decades of experience on stage and in front of the camera.
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Do You Get Compliance Or Commitment?
Leaders and sales professionals spend the bulk of their time communicating with other people, usually with the intention that they will do something. Get a task finished or make a buying decision.
The way you choose to communicate has a huge impact on the quality of the relationship and how your audience will respond next time.
Essentially you have two options open to you. I’ll touch on each of them in this video so you can work out which is likely to have the best results.
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What Tone Will You Set for 2023?
Feeling drained by endless Zoom and Teams meetings? Let's chat about a simple trick that might help you change things up a bit - standing up! I
t's more than just changing your position; it brings a fresh wave of energy to your discussions and helps you connect with your audience more authentically.
Think of it like this: when you're standing, you're 'performing', and that performance can be a game-changer for your pitches and presentations, whether you're working remotely or in the office.
Are You Brave Enough?
When I work with leaders there’s one tool in my tool kit that most people find scarier than anything else.
Ironically, once you master this it will be one of the most powerful techniques at your disposal to hold your audience’s attention and increase your impact and influence.
There’s a clue at the end of my first sentence in this one-minute video.
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Planning Something Different For 2023.
No doubt you’ll be reviewing achievements and disappointments from the year just ending and setting goals and objectives for the year ahead but I think there’s something even more important for leaders to contemplate.
I’d like to bring a slightly different perspective to your end-of-year reflection and planning so join me in this video and let me know if you can answer the key leadership question I raise.
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