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Thought For The Week
TO develop a repeatable process for your events, be obsessive in your preparation. Have a checklist of what you need to do, take it, and follow it, religiously.… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Presentations
Delivering Success
DELIVER a successful project. How? By ensuring everyone knows what is expected of them. Have an open and honest relationship at the top of the project, trust those running it and avoid formal project management meetings. (Extract from The Naked Coach)… Continue Reading
The Power Of Persuasion
AS a manager of a business it is not just your product you need to sell! Selling yourself, using your persuasive powers, is vital in getting your point across because not all good ideas sell themselves. Influencing people can be mostly to do with seeing a proposition from the other person’s point of view, then…… Continue Reading
Thought For The Week
YOU can never know everything that you need to know about your chosen area of excellence, but you must know quite a lot. Your knowledge needs to be grounded, not just in academia, but also in the real world of business, organisations and life. If you want to be an obvious expert, and not just…… Continue Reading
Thought For The Week
WHEN running a seminar, dress as an obvious expert. Have presence. Choose your clothes carefully; you don’t want to be dressed as though you are ready to do some gardening. Be well groomed. (Extract from The Naked Millionaire)… Continue Reading
Coach Yourself – With Naked Leader
THERE will always be a need for a coach – and before you ask, no I don’t mean a luxury 52-seater with tables and bathroom facilities. In business coaching is a one-to-one, on-the-job approach by managers and trainers to help people develop their skills and levels of competence. It can also involve group learning –…… Continue Reading
Present Your Case Well
YOU will have heard the quote, ‘theirs not to reason why.’ As you may know, it is a famous saying from Alfred, Lord Tennyson in his poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade. Of course, unlike the soldiers risking death in the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War, your audience won’t have been blindly…… Continue Reading
Action For The Week
MAKE your big idea a killer proposition. Write it out, in language a 10-year-old would understand. Explain the pain (problems overcome) and pleasure (benefits) which will come from your big idea. Combine the two, ie, it needs to appeal to a problem being solved and an opportunity being achieved. Then, the killer part, add the…… Continue Reading
Time To Make A Difference
CHARLES Hardin Holley – who died in 1959 and was known to the majority of the world by his stage name, Buddy Holly – is credited with being ‘the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll.’ Time-saving guru Vince Holley has never been labelled in such fabled terms nor was he a…… Continue Reading
The Meet Of The Matter
THAT saying ‘treat others how you would expect to be treated’ comes into play when you are chairing a meeting. Interpersonal skills are the key to making it a success and participants need to be given respect and consideration. That doesn’t mean it has to be like a friendly chat between mates! Be business like,…… Continue Reading