Here’s my latest Behind the Voice YouTube episode featuring Liz Truss, the British politician campaigning to replace Boris Johnson in the Conservative party leadership election.
You may also be interested in watching my video deconstructing Rishi Sunak’s pitch to become PM of the UK.
In the 3:50 minute video clip of a live module of my Plan and deliver memorable presentations program – I work with participants at a syndicate table explaining and demonstrating various body language and gesturing techniques.
You can emulate the techniques – first in safe interactions – to present yourself and communicate your ideas with more impact.**
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Here’s my latest Behind the Voice YouTube channel episode featuring Rishi Sunak, the British politician campaigning to replace Boris Johnson in the Conservative party leadership election.
Andrew Huberman in an episode titled The science of setting and achieving goals, from his podcast Huberman Lab made me stop and think with these statement regarding goals:
‘Visualisation is helpful in getting us started on the pursuit of goals but not a good way to maintain the pursuit of a goal –
‘Fear gets its power from our not looking at either the fear or what we’re afraid of. Remember that attic or closet door behind which something terrifying waited, and the longer we didn’t look, the harder it was to open that door.’
This quote is from a passage on page 14 of The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo.
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Here’s my latest Behind the Voice YouTube channel episode featuring Shawn Achor, the NY Times bestselling author of The Happiness Advantage and Big Potential.
A number of years ago I wrote a short Australian Financial Review Letter to the Editor.
The letter was in response to an article in the AFR where a person named Tony Rutigliano stated that, ‘Training is of little benefit in sales.’
Here’s my letter retort to Rutigliano’s sweeping statement, titled
Good sales people make themselves (it will take you 40 seconds to read).
I recently put out a survey to some of my executive clients around the common communication challenges that they face as leaders, and how this affects their teams, and the organisation as a whole.
Overwhelmingly, the consensus was that they regularly experienced situations where communication breakdown was responsible for inefficiencies in their daily work.
More precisely, there was a significant pattern of people not being able to confidently communicate clear, concise messages to senior executives.
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Here is a short, Australian Financial Review, Letter to the Editor that I wrote in response to what was missing in an AFR article that was titled ‘How to have a healthy old age.’
The Letter to the Editor came to mind, as I am currently offering a complimentary presentation, to Rotary International and other service clubs, titled:
Here’s my latest Behind the Voice YouTube channel episode featuring ex NFL (National Football League, USA) stellar linebacker Shannon Sharpe.
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