Jim Harvey

Jim is a serial entrepreneur and the MD of The Message Business, a company which helps international and FTSE 100 companies sell themselves, and their products more effectively. Jim has many years of experience speechwriting, presentation coaching and motivational speaking, all over the world.

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Build Real Impact
10 Tips for… Starting Brilliantly
So many people ask us how to start well in a presentation and how to make the maximum impact in those crucial...
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Authenticity
Fixed with Gold – 3 More Painful Lessons That Help the Presenter Grow
In the first post in the series, I bared my soul about some of the howlers I made as a speaker, and...
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Fixed with Gold – the Painful Lessons That Help the Presenter Grow
If you want to grow as a speaker, you can’t learn if you don’t fall, and it’s not whether, or how far,...
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Charisma
Inspire your audience with these proven verbal hacks
If you want to stand out as a speaker, to inspire your audiences every time you stand up to speak, this article...
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Charisma
The Small Changes to Your Speech That Will Have a Big Effect
So if you have read Jim’s earlier piece on how to become a more charismatic speaker, you will know what you are...
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Charisma
How to Move Hearts and Minds with These 12 Easy Hacks
Most presenters forget that their job is not simply to explain something, it is to transmit a feeling to their audience. Often,...
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Build Your Skills
This is What Every Nervous Speaker Needs to Be Told
In this article, Jim Harvey identifies 3 new rules to help the less experienced presenter who wants to stand out, to build...
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Authenticity
10 Essential Steps to a Beautiful Eulogy for a Loved One
This is a magazine for professional speakers, and aspiring speakers, but let’s remember that for all of us, some of the most...
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Powerpoint
Look Effortlessly Expert as you Present with PowerPoint
Most speakers want to look effortlessly in control when they speak: in control of their subject, their nerves and their technology. In...
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Build Your Skills
5 Really Simple and Cheap Ways to Improve Your Presentation Skills
Presenting better than the norm gives you a clear competitive advantage in your field If you present slightly better than the norm...
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The Best Way to Explain Complex Concepts – Part 2
In the first post in this series we looked at how Albert Einstein believed that complex subjects – and it doesn’t get...
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Understand your Audience
The Best Way to Explain Complex Concepts – Part 1
Albert Einstein once said, ‘If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” While we have an entire...

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