Pauses can be powerful in your communication. Here are a couple for you to try out: 1.) Dramatic You’re delivering your presentation; you’ve arrived at a particularly important point which would benefit from some emphasis and gravitas. At this stage, speaking more loudly and gesticulating could increase the material’s significance to your audience. Far more effective, […]
The best toys have lots of possibilities. An expensive, amazingly detailed figurine of Iron Man which you can’t put into different poses is just a cool statue. A smaller, cheaper action figure with movable joints, however, can be put into lots of cool positions which makes it more fun. So which is best? You already
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Your communication needs to be interesting – and for that to happen, you need to be interesting. But you’re not particularly, are you? Well, if you put on your ‘game face’, that will certainly be true. Here a few things that I think can generate the magic ‘i’ factor. Unconventionality Surprises Flaws They all come
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On April 1st this year I gave a TEDx talk, which you can watch here. I learnt quite a lot from it, such as: Be ready for tech failures (see if you can spot what happens at 5:28 and how I react to it). Rehearsal really, really helps. It means that when things wrong you
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You have to give a presentation. You’re nervous; what if something unexpected happens? What will you do? Here’s the most important thing to remember: something unexpected will happen. The Problem Most people I work with are terrified of what might go wrong when they speak, and that if something does (and it probably will) that
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