The beginning of the presentation is your prime real estate. It’s when your audience decides if you are worth paying attention to or not. In my workshops, I call this the HOOK. You can do this by either asking a question, making a bold statement or telling a story that relates to your topic.
Never end your presentation with a question-and-answer session. Instead, ask for questions, comments, and concerns and only then end with a quick wrap-up. The goal is to end with your audience being clear on their next steps.
The beginning of the presentation is your prime real estate. It’s when your audience decides if you are worth paying attention to or not. In my workshops, I call this the HOOK. You can do this by either asking a question, making a bold statement or telling a story that relates to your topic.
Powerful presentations can persuade, influence, and inspire your audience.
In addition, the ability to present information in a compelling way and develop your overall presence is critical to your career advancement.
Here are seven things to think about every time you share information with an audience of one or one hundred.
1. Who is my audience?
2. What do I want them to THINK,
No one changes the world while playing catch up; that is why cultivating the agility to act swiftly and smartly in any given situation is one of the keys to managing the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world. I know from personal experience how hard it is to find a balance between thinking a situation through and acting too quickly. Indeed, overcoming “analysis paralysis” is easier said than done. Nevertheless, developing the agility to transform rapidly increases the likelihood that you can withstand and even thrive in the face of whatever comes your way.
We, humans, are a social species, and that’s why words and how we communicate have the power to shape our emotions. With that in mind, I have gathered together 23 quotes that I believe will inspire and fortify you for whatever 2023 may bring. They are the words of iconic leaders like Nelson Mandela and John F. Kennedy, the poet and author Maya Angelou, holocaust survivor and psychotherapist Viktor Frankl, and the Toltec sage Don Ruiz Miguel.
Rapid transformation in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world.
Sometimes we wish things could stay the same, but even the Ancient Greeks knew that change is, paradoxically, a constant in our lives. In fact, we are constantly confronting change, not just in catastrophic ways like meteors, climate change, or a pandemic. The key question is whether you find functioning in our volatile and uncertain times debilitating or energizing.
Lessons I have learned with Web Marketing Strategist extraordinaire David Asarnow.
Pandemics and plagues have a way of upending people’s lives and shifting the course of history. Starting in the 14th Century, the Black Death killed nearly half of Europe’s population in a calamity that lasted four years and continued to come in waves for over two centuries. But even as the plague inexorably wiped out whole villages, it also transformed the fixed strata of medieval society,
In his book “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,” Patrick Lencioni identifies the heart of dysfunction as a lack of trust.
So, how do we build teams that trust each other, particularly in a hybrid environment?
The first step toward achieving confident cohesion is to help your team members connect with one another on a personal level.
While this is challenging enough to accomplish in person, it is even more difficult when some members of your team have not and may never meet in person.
