I believe people mess up presentations due to these 3 reasons: They miss the point of the presentation. They don’t rehearse, and consequently flounder. They get stuck on a set routine of delivery. Let’s nail these one a time, like 3 spies from a certain popular British franchise: The Bigger Picture Think like M the strategist, working out what […]
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My special power? Being a freak. My Weakness Information doesn’t stick in my mind properly; if you give me a series of information or instructions then I’ll only be able to partially recall it. I can be easily distracted; I suspect that if I told any of my friends I’d been diagnosed with attention deficit
This continues from last week’s post regarding authenticity. You have two ways of behaving: Your true nature. How you behave when with others. Table 7 Are Complete D**ks These two roles are like the waiting staff at a restaurant: while in the kitchen, they yell at each other with no pretence or politeness, in
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Them: “Hey, just be yourself.” You: “Why would I do that? I don’t want them to know what I’m really like.” An easy mistake to make. After all, you’re not particularly interesting, are you? You’re not really good at anything – and I mean really good – but you want to put across a professional,
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There’s a lot of Britishness in Star Wars (Episode IV, A New Hope) – Peter Cushing’s creepy Tarkin and Anthony Daniels’s pompous C-3PO in particular spring to mind, but the most inspiring to me is Alec Guinness’s gentlemanly Obi-Wan Kenobi; he’s relaxed, polite and ready to fight. And that’s a powerful combination. Old Ben Kenobi
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