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October 2003 |
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So You Want To Be Funny?
Here's a Quick How-To. |
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So you want
to have some humor in your presentations. The good news is
that anyone can be funny.
If you don’t
believe it, ask Jeff Justice, a professional humor coach that
has made even the dullest people funny. |
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How
To Have Great Gestures That Make You Look Confident. |
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"What do I do with my hands?"
We get that question all the time.
In our Persuasive Speaker workshop, we teach
three "do be’s" and one “don’t be.” |
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SARS Changing The Way Biz Communicates.
Teleconferencing Replaces Some Travel. |
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The SARS
(Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak has had an
unanticipated impact on how business people around the world
communicate. With international travel to the Far East down,
use of teleconferencing has increased dramatically, according
to a recent Wall Street Journal report.
Which
begs, the question, how can you communicate effectively during
a teleconference? |
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Use
Analogies To Connect With Listeners. Drive Home
Your Point Like A Hammer. |
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Wachovia
has a wonderful series of advertisements right now that picks
commonplace things and analogizes them to banking issues.
Recently one of the advertisements ask: How is investing
like being in a toy store?
Not
everything you see is worth buying.
Analogies
are great shortcuts for explaining complex ideas or
processes. Here's an analogy creation technique that
works.
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Communication Situation Coaching: A New Approach To Public
Speaking Training. |
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When Henry
Ford introduced the Model T, the joke was that you could have
your car any color you wanted “Just so long as you want
black.” Unfortunately, most public speaking training is the
same way.
The
overwhelming majority of people that attend public speaking
workshops experience the same thing: A chance to present on
videotape and get some feedback from a coach. |
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