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The Best Public Speakers Put Their Audience First
December 13th 2022
Exceptional public speaking is about more than delivering a polished introduction, maintaining eye contact or appearing confident on stage. The most effective speakers focus on what their audience
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To Make Your Pitches More Engaging, Appeal to Multiple Learning Styles
July 26th 2024
A good idea can still fail to connect if it is presented in only one way. Combining stories, visuals, evidence and interaction can help more of your audience understand and remember your message.
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What the Best Presenters Do Differently
April 1st 2022
What separates an effective presentation from one that is quickly forgotten? It isn’t simply polished slides, impressive statistics or sophisticated presentation software. The strongest presenters
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How To Give A Killer Presentation
October 7th 2021
A little more than a year ago, on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, some colleagues and I met a 12-year-old Masai boy named Richard Turere, who told us a fascinating story. His family raises livestock on the
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What It Takes to Run a Great Hybrid Meeting
June 3rd 2021
A recent McKinsey
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The Art of the elevator pitch
October 9th 2020
Long before your favorite movie made it to a theater near you, it was presented in a pitch meeting. Hollywood screenwriters typically get three to five minutes to propose an idea, but it takes only
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How great TED Speakers distil 40 years of experience into 18 minutes
August 18th 2020
A great speaker can condense decades of experience into a presentation that lasts no longer than 18 minutes. It's a tactic you must master to become a great
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How to Rehearse for an Important Presentation
June 8th 2020
Steve Jobs was the most astonishing business speaker of his time. Bill Gates once called him a "wizard" who "cast spells" on his audience. Fortune magazine proclaimed that his keynotes could set
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To Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking, Stop Thinking About Yourself
April 6th 2020
Most of us — even those at the top — struggle with public-speaking anxiety. When I ask my clients what makes them nervous, invariably they respond with the same answers: "I don't like being
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Maintaining Eye Contact While Talking Overwhelms the Brain
March 23rd 2020
To humans, eye contact is everything. From infancy onward, humans look to the gaze of others to try to gauge their emotions and thereby determine what those emotions say about their relationship.
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The Mistakes You Make in a Meeting's First Milliseconds
February 18th 2019
Article by Sue Shellenbarger: A growing body of research shows the snap judgements people make about others' trustworthiness are wrong more often than most people
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You Are the Best Visual
January 28th 2019
Article by Judith Humphrey: The best way to create a persuasive leadership moment is to become the audience's focal point. Audiences that divide their attention will only be able to partially commit
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Coping With Stagefright
January 21st 2019
Article by John Daly & Isa Engleberg: Welcome to the world of stagefright! You are not alone if you have had this experience. Almost everybody has. Luckily, researchers in communication & psychology
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Picture It
January 7th 2019
Article by Gary Genard: How effective are you at persuading audiences to see things your way? If you fail to speak visually, chances are the answer is "not
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