Consider these two bits of information.
#1. If you stop moving your head around, you’ll be a movie star’. Director, Steven Spielberg, speaking to actor George Clooney on the set of the television series ER quoted in a New Yorker Magazine article.
#2. Below is a 26.55 minute video clip of an interview with actor Hugh Laurie. Laurie is a captivating speaker. Watch as much of the clip as you want to. What I want you to pay attention to, are his shoulders.*
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Let’s agree – athletes choke.
Business people choke too. Perhaps not in the same way that athletes do. For example, a professional tennis player’s choke, could be double faulting in a crucial game.
Business people choke, for example, by projecting timidity or alarm through their face, body language carriage and movement, vocal tone and/or speaking cadence and fluency.
One choking behaviour of business people – that is similar to the choking of athletes is – rush.
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A couple of posts back I shared Coach K’s ( Mike Krzyzewski) standards that he used when he coached Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.
In the below 5:03 video clip titled Mike Krzyzewski, Coach K, Talks About Kobe Bryant and Compares Him to Michael Jordan, Krzyzewski shares another idea that can help pitch teams gain an edge against their competition.
The key part of the clip I want you to watch is (from the 42 second – 1:13 section).
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Leaving aside the value of his policies, the leader of Federal Opposition Labor Party, Anthony Albanese’s presentation of himself and his messages – still leave his audiences, uninspired.
My comments in this Herald Sun 2019 article are still relevant today.