Search results for "listening"

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  Why Webinars are Great and How to Design Them Effectively

  More and more presentations these days are given via webinar instead of with a live audience in the same room as the...

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  Design Principles

  5 Ways to Make Your Presentation More Visual and Effective

  Visualizing slides (just a fancy word for transforming slides full of text into more visual slides) is a big part of my job,...

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  Authenticity

  Motivational Speakers – Are They All They’re Cracked Up To Be?

  Simon Raybould is an English presentation coach. He’s opinionated and prone to challenge the orthodoxy, which, in our minds is a very good...

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  Build Your Skills

  How to Close a Sale

  What are the communications secrets of a sale? How can you size up a potential customer, develop a fast and durable relationship,...

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  Build Real Impact

  The Purpose of the Pitch

  At the end of a pitch, your audience shouldn’t be the only ones asking questions. Asking your audience questions can help keep them...

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  Performance

  What can Business Presenters Learn from the Best Street Entertainers in the World?

  There’s a 36 year old guy, married with a mortgage and 3 kids. He stands on a cobbled street in London, asking tourists for...

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  Persuasion

  16 Ways to Make Your Case at Meetings

  What’s the best way to prepare for an argument or debate? Keeping an open mind and preparing for different points of view...

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  Technology

  How to Get Instant Feedback From Your Audience

  Getting your audience engaged is the most important thing you can do when presenting. We previously published an article on Zeetings, a...

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  Powerpoint

  From Bullet Points to Visual Presentation – and Why It Matters

  If you have tried in the past to use more pictures in your presentations but you’re not quite convinced, keep reading and...

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  Authenticity

  4 Ways to Win Over Every Audience

  Many of our writers have spoken about the different techniques of engaging audiences from the beginning of a speech, but how does one...

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  Build Real Impact

  Visual Learning Revisited – A Simple Truth Revealed

  I’ve always been fascinated by how people understand information. Probably because the learning methods at school rarely engrossed me. Even now, if...

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  Storytelling

  How To Become More Deeply Connected and Widely Quoted

  We recently wrote about the Ladder of Abstraction, where combining big picture messages with granular details is the key to delivering a powerful...