Michael’s letter to the editor featured in the Australian Financial Review, 31 May 2019:
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Where leadership and likability meet policy formation
FLAT, uninspiring, stilted FIRST SPEECH – A. Albanese
The first impression of a leader at their first, public presentation – is important.
Harvard University professors Nalini Ambady and Robert Rosenthal of Harvard University conducted a study where they found students watching a silent video clip of a lecturer needed just 2 seconds to form lasting impressions of the lecturer.
Continue readingRUSHING is junior – ‘OWNING’ time … is senior
Last week I conducted a Delivering memorable messages programme for board members of the Sarina Community Bank. The board members impressed me as a cohesive group of executives who are committed to enhancing the lives of people in the Sarina community.
Continue readingA POLITICAL SPEECH to be PROUD of – by Robert Kennedy
If ever there was a speech that was the right speech, at the right time, by the right person, in the right manner, for the right reason, and with the right feeling tone –
a speech that had a direct correlation to preventing violence –
Continue readingD. TRUMP & H. CLINTON debate analysis RE-VISITED
As it is election debating season in Australia leading up to a Federal election this month, here is my ANALYSIS of another debate – one of the Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton’s presidential debates of 2016.
Body language experts pick PM, hands down
Michael Kelly scores the electoral debate in this 1 May Australian Financial Review article.
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PM Morrison WINS first election DEBATE
Political debates between leaders at the National level are about projecting a personality, a bearing, a national and world view that voters find appealing – not about scoring points.
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Michael Kelly comments on the first debate of the 2019 election campaign with Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten.
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U.S. President FDR on how to SIMPLIFY a MESSAGE
In 1942, U.S. president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt converted one of his own government department memos- a black out order:
from:
“Such preparations shall be made as will completely obscure all Federal buildings and non-Federal building occupied by the Federal government during an air raid for any period of time from visibility by reason of internal or external illumination.”
Continue reading“I DON’T Understand your key message”
My One-on-One and group work with clients involved participants delivering a mock, 45-90 second opening of a presentation or meeting. Often when a person finishes delivering this mock presentation, it is unclear to me, what their key message(s) is. That is, what they want me to retain and/or act upon.
I share this lack of clarity with the person, and suggest what I believe to be the key message – usually in the form of a few bullet points or a couple of sentences – and ask them if those points or sentences are the key messages they wanted to get across.
They regularly retort,
‘Yes, that’s it’ – to which I’ll reply – ‘Then why didn’t you say that?’
The reason, usually, for their unclear speaking, is from not taking enough time to think deeply enough of what the key messages were, and not taking time to choose, package and express that thinking in simple, concise language, that omits needless words.
Simplicity sells. Complexity confuses. The tighter your speaking the better. If a sentence doesn’t advance your case, drop it.
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