When under pressure, are you brilliant at the basics?

Late last year I was talking with a client of mine, Justin Stark, Managing Director at Accenture. Justin said that the phrase that was circling around his organisation was, ‘Brilliant Basics’.

That is, there was a focus on people in the organisation doing the basics of business, extraordinarily well.

Doing the basics extraordinarily well is a message I share ad nauseam with my clients. I do this, because many of the my techniques seem on the surface, to be too basic to be effective. Their power is in their execution, particularly when the pressure is on. And if you do the basics very well, in how you present yourself and communicate your ideas,

you’ll separate yourself from a ‘sea of talking heads’.

And as you know there are a lot of talking heads aroun

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Impactful quotations to improve how you communicate

Last year a client, in a Delivering memorable messages program, said he wanted to receive the various quotations I had shared in the program.

Here are some of the quotes** I share in my work with clients:

  • Reduce the speed at which you gesture to increase your level of authority.
  • The better you communicate the more intelligent you appear (James Clear).
  • The substance of one’s remarks becomes irrelevant if one cannot say them effortlessly.
  • There is a hidden battle for dominance waged in almost every conversation – and the way we modulate the lower frequencies of our voices shows who’s on top.
  • Seniority is signalled by response time.
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