One easy way to become a more engaging audience-centric presenter us to effectively harness your Vocal Power and simply Speak Up! Volume, inflection and rate of speaking combined can significantly impact your audience’s attention, interest in your message … and positive impression of you, the messenger.
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I Don’t Get It – Quotes
I Don’t Get It why people use quotes so poorly! Clients tell me that my use of quotes is effective in my training and speaking engagements and in the articles I write, probably because I don’t overuse them and they relate to and support my content.
Your Winning Smile
Grandma was right. You do only get one chance to make a good first impression. When you’re networking, one goal should always be to make the very best first impression you can on the strangers you meet. Often that impression begins with Your Winning Smile.
Smile Through the Pain
One simple way to deal with Presentation Anxiety is to Smile Through the Pain. My good friend Jim Smith, the Executive Happiness Coach here in Cleveland knows a lot about how smiles can impact your happiness. And his current blog discusses the Power of Smiles – https://mail.aol.com/webmail-std/en-us/suite.
Stand & Deliver!
Your audience only knows what it sees. That’s why Audience-Centric presenters harness the physical energy of their bodies by standing and delivering with credibility and confidence. Your body can be a great natural visual aid, but it can also show nervousness or lack of confidence very quickly and clearly. So … look the part you’re playing – a confident and credible presenter.
Branding on a Budget
Last month’s feature on the always hot topic of Branding generated even more reader reaction and questions. One of them asked about branding on a tight budget. My comments: Time to get creative with ways to get lots of free positive exposure. The concept of ‘target market’ weaves throughout my comments below. It requires you … Read more
Creating Audience Centered Presentations
Creating Audience-Centered Presentations can be a key to your career success in the job you have … or the job you want. And adding some new, different or better tools to your Workplace Presenter Tool Kits is simple … but not necessarily easy.
Don’t be a Card Shark!
Regular readers realize the mission-critical value of Effective, Efficient and Engaging Networking. Properly done, it can result in easily learning important information to help you do your jobs better or grow your businesses. It can sometimes even lead to creating new mutually beneficial business relationships.
‘Uncommon Courtesy’
A reader recently asked for some simple tips to network with more courtesy and to avoid coming off like a ‘slug’ at networking events. My comments.
Networking with ‘Uncommon Courtesy’ is both simple and easy and can clearly differentiate you from everyone else:
Brand Your Way to Success
Branding is always a hot topic for my small business clients and for many ‘Communicate Confidently!‘ readers. Recently, one asked how a small business can effectively brand itself and I shared a few thoughts. Here’s a summary of those comments: