November 2007 |
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If You Want to Sound Smarter, Dump the "Ums". |
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Joey Asher
President's
Perspective |
In my
previous life as a young attorney, a senior lawyer once called me into his
office and shut the door. “Joey,” he said. “I want to
give you some feedback on how you handled yourself in
that meeting today.”
I
braced myself. “You did fine,” he said, “The client
seemed satisfied. But I think I counted 25 “ums” in
five minutes. It doesn’t sound good.”
Filler
words like “um” and “er” make us sound unsure and even
ignorant. Yet with focus and the help of our brain’s
“reticular activation system” you can eliminate filler
words.
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Topics to Avoid If You Don't Want to Be a Bore. |
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Remember how fascinated you were the last time someone
told you a detailed plot of their favorite movie?
Didn’t
think so.
Detailing a movie plot is just one of “Seven Topics to
Avoid if You Don’t Want to Risk Being a Bore” according
to Gretchen Rubin, an author, lawyer, and former law
clerk to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor.
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Who Will Win Battle of Google vs. PowerPoint? |
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For those of you
that are sick of PowerPoint, you might consider using the free
presentation software provided by Google as part of the
Google Docs suite. The suite includes a presentation program
comparable to PowerPoint.
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Cool Word of the Month: "PowerPoint Monkey". |
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PowerPoint
Monkey: An employee that spends most or all of their time creating and
modifying Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations.
Synonyms: PowerPoint Jockey; Chief Formulator of Presentation Materials
and Strategy
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Public Speaking Lesson from Marie Antoinette. |
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“I have seen all. I
have heard all. I have forgotten all.”
Those are the words
of Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France who was accused of treason
and beheaded in 1793 during the height of the French Revolution.
She certainly wasn’t talking about presentations. But her words
perfectly describe how most people consume business presentations.
They hear and see. But they forget almost everything.
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