Product Launch presentations are tricky – one the one hand you want to create excitement and a buzz about your new product / course / company / book. But on the other hand, it doesn’t matter how exciting and world changing the product is – if the presentation or presenter is boring, dull, lifeless or cliché then the audience will believe the product is equally dull and boring.
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Read MoreThe education system does not prepare us for the challenges life presents. In fact it teaches us a very backward set of expectations. At school we all sat through weeks, months or even years of lessons. Then we sat a test – to find out if we had learned the lesson. In life, however, it happens the other way around.
Read MoreThere comes a point in any journey of personal growth and development where the next step we need or want to take suddenly feels way bigger than all the others taken so far. You might be embarking on your biggest ever project at work, preparing your first public speaking gig, creating your first presentation for work, starting a business or turning up to join a local sports team or theatre club for the first time. Whatever it is, it is something that is taking you out of your comfort zone.
Read MoreWith so many meetings and even whole businesses moving online, here are our top tips to help you present effectively and professionally when using Zoom, Skype, Teams or other teleconference software.
Read MoreIt is the leaders job to define reality and communicate this to their team.
If you don’t define reality for your team someone else will. In the absence of clear communication from their leaders, people will define reality for themselves based on their fears and assumptions.
Communication during a crisis needs to be clear, consistent and concise.
Read MorePresenting with clarity is the ability to communicate your message in such a way that the people in the room are able to hear, understand and receive your message.
Read MoreThe best man’s speech is a traditional part of the wedding day and the cause of more than a few sleepless nights on the part of the best man – and often the groom!
Here is my 6 step guide how to write the best best man’s speech.
Read MoreSpeaking to camera is not the same as speaking on stage to hundreds of people, nor is it like presenting to a room of a dozen. When we speak to camera it is much more intimate conversation – a one to one experience on the part of the viewer.
Read MoreThere is something about the rhythm and symmetry of rhyming statements that pleases the mind and so inclines the listener to believe the statement is more true – or at least make it more memorable.
Read MoreThe fifth essential Rhetorical device for speakers to master is Exaggeration. If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a million times – this stuff matters.
Hyperbole, which comes from the Greek meaning to ‘overshoot the mark’ is a popular rhetorical device among politicians and other motivational speakers.
Read MoreMetaphor is a powerful rhetorical device that can bring life to your speech and your ideas.
Read MoreBalancing sentences are more likely stick in the mind of the audience and the human mind is drawn to the symmetry of the statement. A balanced statement is a believable statement.
Read MoreA great rhetorical device is to use three sentences which repeat their opening clause. Repetition conveys excitement. Repetition implies importance. Repetition reinforces the message.
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