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Pivotal Presentations Practice Tips: August 2010
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Practice Tips: Inspiration and Reminders to help you become a Great Speaker. Friday, August 6, 2010. Poet Maya Angelou was quoted as saying,. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.". How DO you make your audiences feel? They came to be transformed. They want to leave different and better than when they arrived. How do you make that emotional connection for them? When you come to the point of emotion. Friday...
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Practice Tips: Inspiration and Reminders to help you become a Great Speaker. Monday, July 12, 2010. GET YOUR MOJO WORKING! Isn't MOJO is a great word! Energy, dynamism, magic, power, finesse, excitement, charisma - all of these are part of the meaning of that word. Originally related to a Voodo or Hoodo spiritual practice, it has come to mean a kind of personal charm that is mesmerizing. Muddy Watters, the great blues man made a song about MOJO famous. See how expectant he is to get a response from you?
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Practice Tips: Inspiration and Reminders to help you become a Great Speaker. Monday, June 28, 2010. What's in your Treasure Chest? The words "treasure chest" conjure up all kinds of exciting and valuable images. When I begin to work on a presentation, I create a special presentation treasure chest. First I analyze my audience. And get very clear about what my core message is - the exact words I'd like my audience to remember after the presentation is over. I put these in my treasure chest first. ...I loo...
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Pivotal Presentations Practice Tips
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Practice Tips: Inspiration and Reminders to help you become a Great Speaker. Monday, November 7, 2011. COOK UP A TASTY, NOURISHING and MEMORABLE PRESENTATION. As a member of the. I entertain many international State Department guests for dinner. I first look in my refrigerator to see what is there. Meat or fish, cheese, butter, tofu, fresh veggies and fruit, fresh ginger, tamari, and begin to get a sense of where this meal is going. I make my big decisions: what is the main theme of this meal? However, j...
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Pivotal Presentations Practice Tips: May 2011
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Practice Tips: Inspiration and Reminders to help you become a Great Speaker. Saturday, May 7, 2011. Last evening I visited my 98 year old mother in the Memory Care section of her retirement residence. Weakened with dementia and a painful back, she nevertheless still has a wild spirit, artistic temperament, love of language (English and French) and an outgoing, self-important social nature. When I walked into the dining room I saw that she was fuming, spitting fire. I talked with her about love,. Who were...
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Practice Tips: Inspiration and Reminders to help you become a Great Speaker. Saturday, February 6, 2010. Whether it is a full out enthusiastic smile or a subtler "Buddha smile," or even a Mona Lisa smile, your smile radiates pleasure, joy, enthusiasm, contentment, engagement, excitement, energy, delight, connectedness, passion or desire. Just for a moment,. Think of one of your presentation topics, and then notice whether your own face moves into a smile in the process. Or to inform them? Now, look at a ...
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Practice Tips: Inspiration and Reminders to help you become a Great Speaker. Tuesday, December 8, 2009. 183; Would you give someone a gift. And walk away without staying there a moment while they receive it? 183; Would you throw a ball. And not keep your attention on the receiver to see if the ball was caught? 183; Would you prepare the soil. Put a plant or seed in the ground and then just leave it there? Our little monkey-mind voice whispers in our ear. While a massage therapist gives energy to the body...
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Practice Tips: Inspiration and Reminders to help you become a Great Speaker. Monday, January 11, 2010. At this time of year we can get so wrapped up in our doings and goings that we lose sight of the essential. We rush from one appointment to another, one email to another, one call to another, one gift to another, trying to fit it all in, get it all done, satisfy all of the demands. The same thing happens when we are making presentations. Grace is a quality that is worth cultivating in both situations:.
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Practice Tips: Inspiration and Reminders to help you become a Great Speaker. Sunday, March 14, 2010. My sister met a woman at a business function who was very appealing - successful, smart and generous. She told my sister that God wants us to be happy. She said the universe is so perfectly designed that the instant we ask for something God gives it to us. We stop and stumble, searching for other words, ruminating - looking for the words we planned to say or "better" words. This habit of distrusting o...
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Practice Tips: Inspiration and Reminders to help you become a Great Speaker. Thursday, May 20, 2010. What makes us avoid speaking opportunities? Why do we delegate presentations to others on our teams? Professionals who embrace the opportunity to speak are quickly promoted. And given many more opportunities than those who try to delegate others to do the speaking for them. But if you regularly feel anxiety in the pit of your stomach. Instead of mistakenly thinking that you are the only one. If you change...
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