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Passion
Although developing proper eye-contact technique and learning how and when to pause are absolutely essential to acquiring “The Skills” – you’re not finished yet. The last element involves adding the emotional to the mechanical. What we’re referring to here is the element that works to lock in your audience once you’ve successfully engaged them with [...]

The process that sets you on your way to speaking like the best speakers in the world, speakers who possess The Skills, goes like this: You find a target in your audience and you lock eyeballs. You deliver a complete thought to that one person, and then you do the hardest part, you pause. You [...]

In order to present at the top, in order to acquire The Skills, you must remember three rules that govern everything you do whilst presenting. They’re really quite simple, but sometimes it’s easy to forget the simple things, and these rules must remain in the forefront of your consciousness at all times.
Rule Number 1 states: [...]

People who get paid well to speak all share one of two traits: either they’re famous, or they own “The Skills”. To be able to move people who don’t know you as a celebrity of some sort, you must know how to keep your audience focused on you and your message, and how to keep [...]

An Inconvenient Speaker
We have made the claim many times that Bill Clinton is the Master of the Pause. In fact, we have said that it is exactly this mastery that causes more people in polls to name the former president as the greatest living public speaker hands down.
If you doubt Bill Clinton’s ability to embrace [...]

Early in the movie, The Fugitive, Officer Gerard catches up with Dr. Kimball near the outlet of a high dam. Gerard had been chasing Kimball not as a suspect in a crime (the murder of Kimball’s wife), but as fugitive from justice. With seemingly no where to go, and Gerard’s gun trained on him, Kimball [...]

Perhaps the most difficult thing for speaker to learn is knowing when and where to stop speaking.
When you pause, you establish the pace from the beginning of your talk. You let the audience know that the information is going to be coming at them at a pace that they can handle. You let them know [...]

Organizing Your Presentation
Before organizing your presentation keep reminding yourself that Less is More. Also consider that most presentations have far too many concepts, and the concepts far too many details..
You should be able to put the gist of your presentation into one sentence or “headline”. What would the headline of your speech be? Think about [...]

In Part III we discussed the four different types of evidence you can use: Personal, Statistics, Example, and Analogy. Each has its good points, and the type of evidence you choose will depend on both your topic and your audience. Whatever evidence you choose, make sure that you’re not just delivering the facts, but rather [...]

In Part III we discussed the importance of making sure that you tell your audience what your solution or recommendation is immediately after announcing the problem or opportunity at hand. Audiences absolutely need to know where you’re going from the beginning in order to put into proper perspective the evidence you unfold.
When presenting the evidence, [...]

Opening with a “Bang”
You’ve got at most 30 seconds to give your audience a compelling reason to sit up and listen to what you’ve got to say, or you’ve lost them to their Blackberries or Suduko. Now that they’re listening, you’ve got to structure what you’re going to say in a way that makes for [...]

We begin with Part I of a 4-part series on organizing the sequence of your presentation so that your information creates maximum impact on the audience. Getting off the right start is absolutely critical.
What’s the title of the first slide in 99% of all business presentations? The Agenda. Beginning your presentation with the Agenda slide [...]

Success can be understood in so many different ways.The term is used widely by book authors in the field of personal development and a lot in education when passing exams or simply filling out an online application for a merchant account: “Success” informs us about a process which has been positively confirmed.
In personal life success [...]

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates recently criticized the US military for not doing enough to support soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, singling out the Air Force for adapting too slowly to the new enemies on those battlefields. He blamed military leaders who are “stuck in old ways of doing business”. That may sound strange to [...]

Home based jobs are really no different than any other job when is comes to managing. When you “manage” anything, it really comes down to three critical items:
- Setting direction, goals and objectives
- Finding and applying the necessary resources to the task
- Getting results
In your current career, you probably understand Leadership as it applies to [...]

Becoming an effective leader is a lot like being in the stock market. You don’t make your fortune in a day; you make it daily, a little bit at a time. What matters most is what you do day after day, over the long haul. The secret to leadership success is investing in your leadership [...]

A Look At The Fine Art Of Leadership Through The Eyes Of A Softball Coach
FORWARD.
I once remember my dad saying to me that, the most important things you learn in life are those things you learn once you thought you knew it all. I never really acknowledged the importance or the natural impact of that [...]

Are you a manager with too much time on your hands? Do you go home at the end of an eight hour day with boring regularity, leaving a clean desk and a clear conscience?
When rare errors occur in your organization do your employees openly discuss what went wrong so that you can find the root [...]

Team building has been around as a corporate training technique for decades, but recently it’s fallen into disuse. Why? Because many of the techniques of team building seem more like play than work, perhaps.
Or because managers decided that the team building they’d already done was enough to make the group cohesive and maximize their productivity.
However, [...]

Management Communication
In the event of a crisis or a disaster, and if you happen to be the manager of a company facing that crisis or disaster, it’s best to be mentally prepared. Crises can happen any time. Just like they can in our personal lives. And like our own individual preparedness for disaster, a good [...]