Are you noticing these signs and symptoms in your meetings:
• Awkward silences at critical moments when you have a gut hunch people have volumes to say…
• Sideways glances checking out if it’s ‘O.K.” to speak up
• Tension and formality as people try to be perfectly politically [...]
Working globally, distance teams, regional managers…it’s only increasing.
So, what can you do to save your virtual meeting from being a boring recital of slides and a one-directional, sand-spitting data dump?
If you are in one of those great corporate locations with all the bells and whistles set up…you still have to deal with the reality.
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Headlines are your primary tool to focus attention and increase persuasion. Everything else will flow from there. So, don’t rush on to find another source of persuasion and influence. Start at the beginning and you’ll have a much easier time giving presentations that change people’s minds.
Here’s why headlines are so critical. First, they can focus [...]
How to Go From Idea To WOW Presentation–FAST
You’ve got a presentation in a couple hours…or maybe you have a bit more time. As you scrounge through your notes, shift through old slide decks it’s a little overwhelming. You scratch your head…and ask, “Now What?”
And the clock is ticking.
How are you going to go from [...]
What’s Your True Meeting Blueprint?
I got inspired to write this article, today, on January 21, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The speech that caught my attention was “What Is Your Life’s Blueprint?” given six months before he was assassinated. King spoke to a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia [...]
