DON’T Present LIKE Steve JOBS

A number of years ago, I received an email entitled, How to present like Steve Jobs.  I have nothing against Jobs or his presentation style, and his passing was a loss to many people. Undoubtedly he was a luminary in his field and a talented presenter.

Still, I maintain, aiming to present like Jobs is a mistake. If you and millions of other people present like him – then you and others will all be presenting in the same manner – and boring audiences due to that sameness.

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HOW to use B. OBAMA to PREPARE for an INTERVIEW

**Here is the LINK to prior post explaining how I channeled former U.S. President Barack Obama, prior to a Nine Network television interview with Karl Stefanovic. My performance goals for the interview were:

  1. Answer the question asked (versus jumping ahead to another comment related to the question)
  2. Take more time when speaking
  3. Speak in grammatical sentences
  4. Relax my face (versus having a ‘hard’ face)
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