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“Leadership Presence: The Inspiring Leader”
Your Impact As important as who you are and how you come across is what’s going on for your audience. You have to get them on side in order to lead their thinking and decision making. PLU – you have … Continue reading
“Cultivating Charisma: How Personal Magnetism Can Help (Or Hurt) You At Work”
Are you an introvert? Do you hold yourself back and imagine that only the extroverts win attention and promotion? Well this article by Arnie Cooper is just for you! Olivia Fox Cabane has made a special study of what makes a … Continue reading
Posted in Four Stages To Influential Leadership, Giving Influential Presentations, Public Speaking, Self Improvement
Tagged business leaders, Cultivating Charisma, influence, inner presence, Jedi Mind Tricks, leadership presence, Olivia Fox Cabane, personal magnetism, shining performance, tips on getting audience engagement
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“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish: Steve Jobs And Public Speaking”
For several months now, I have been watching and re-watching this moving speech from Steve Jobs. Yes, of course many of us miss him for being the towering presence of a man who was intensely creative and self disciplined – … Continue reading
Posted in Four Stages To Influential Leadership, Giving Influential Presentations, Public Speaking
Tagged audience engagement, business leaders, cast-iron self confidence, compelling delivery, confident presenting, creativity, current-events, drama, entertainment, gravitas, heartfelt, how to be memorable, how to be persuasive, influence, inner presence, leadership, shining performance, Stanford Commencement, Steve Jobs, towering presence
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“When Your Audience Closes Their Eyes, It Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Listening!”
I was lucky enough to be invited to give a workshop – “Influential Presentation Giving” – to members of The Chartered Institute Of Marketing on Tuesday. I made the (I think) very good decision not to use PowerPoint. As research … Continue reading
Posted in Four Stages To Influential Leadership
Tagged audience engagement, behaviour, business, confident presenting, influence, inner presence, intention, leadership, learning and PowerPoint, managing self promotion, overcoming fear, overcoming presentation nerves, performance anxiety, reading your audience, research, shining performance, tension in performance, tips on getting audience engagement
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“Access Your ‘Power Memory’ To Reduce Presentation Nerves”
What memories do you have that make you feel good? Those memories that access moments when you felt powerful and confident. In those moments everything was simple, easy, fun and you could really do things. You might think of the time … Continue reading
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Tagged anticipatory anxiety, cast-iron self confidence, confidence, confident presenting, golden treasury, inner presence, managing self promotion, maths problem, overcoming fear, overcoming presentation nerves, performance anxiety, presentations for the terrified, slow breaths, tension in performance, those memories, treasury of memories
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“The Way You Walk Gets People To Buy? See This Article On Leadership Presence”
May I heartily commend this excellent (though a little long!), practical and fascinating article on how you can develop that elusive quality, ‘presence’. There are some helpful tips and ideas. For example, the article explores the fundamental impact of posture. It … Continue reading
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Tagged building rapport, executive presence, impact, increase sales, influence, inner presence, leadership presence, personal brand, shining performance, winning agreement, winning engagement, winning sales
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“How To Command The Room: Get People To Turn To You”
The British traditionally claim the space that their bodies occupy as well as the 18 inches circumference around themselves as their own. In other cultures, the requirement for personal space will be either less or more. However, whatever the requirement, … Continue reading
Posted in Giving Influential Presentations
Tagged business leaders, confidence, confident presenting, executive presence, influence, inner presence, overcoming fear, overcoming presentation nerves, presence exercise, presence tips, presentations for the terrified, tips on getting audience engagement
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“Do You Have Executive Presence?”
Have a look at this excellent article from Fredia Woolf on developing Executive Presence and how to cultivate it. I admire the way she outlines the two processes of outer and inner presence and how people tend to focus on … Continue reading
