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Here's a New Years Resolution to Help Your Business: Learn to
Remember Names. |
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Joey Asher
President's
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About a year
ago, I was at a cocktail party and saw a woman who had once hired me
to work with her teenaged son Jimmy. Her son needed help on his
campaign speech for senior class president. She waived me over to
where she was chatting with three friends.
“Little Jimmy
gave a wonderful speech and won the election for president of his
senior class,” she boasted to her friends, as I smiled a little
embarrassed. “And he really needed to win that election because it
helped him get into Brown.”
Then she looked
from her friends to me with a beaming smile. “And it all happened
because of the coaching of Jerry Archer!”
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Wanna See A Great Corporate Presentation? Watch Steve Jobs
Introduce the IPhone. |
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Steve Jobs broke a
lot of new ground this week when he introduced the IPhone at
Macworld in San Francisco. But from a presentation standpoint, it
must have been the first time a crank call was made during a major
corporate announcement.
Jobs’s introduction
of the IPhone was a great example of how to deliver a great
presentation. If you want to see it,
click here.
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If You're Looking for a New Job Consider Making a Video
Resume. |
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As video production
technology gets more and more affordable, more and more job hunters
are turning to video resumes.
But if you make a
video resume, you better make it good. Because with the advent of
the internet and YouTube, your video job pleas might wind up on
television and turn you into an international laughing stock. The
video resume trend was featured on a recent edition of
NPR’s Morning Edition.
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Public Speaking Tip from James Brown. |
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“Hair is the first
thing. And teeth is the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two
things, he’s got it all.”
Those are the words
of the Godfather of Soul, the recently departed James Brown. And
while he probably wasn’t talking about public speaking, to our mind
he was making a point about how to make an impression on audiences.
And that point is this: how you look matters. And James Brown looked
gooooooood. To view a video of
James Brown singing “I Feel Good” click here.
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Jargon and Buzzwords to Avoid in 2007: According to a Michigan
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Seven years ago
“e-anything” – as in e-tailors or e-trade or e-communication -- was
banished as too jargony. This year “i-anything” – as in iPod – has
been banished.
At Speechworks we
agree that it’s always a good idea to rid your speech of jargon and
other
tired phases. And a Michigan University has taken it upon itself to
produce a list of 16 buzzwords and other tired phrases that should
be banished from our speech.
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