One of your most powerful tools is your voice – literally. Not just voicing your opinion, but using your voice as an instrument. This instrument can sound as beautiful as Mozart or as painful as fingernails on a chalkboard. I’ll bet if you record yourself in a meeting or on a phone call you will be very surprised by what you hear. Many of us have monotone voices. And to make things worse, we tend to mumble through our conversations. We speak...
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Visual confusion
Seek to clarify, not confuse. When you give a presentation either in person or virtually, do your visuals match your message? Certainly your objective is to present a brief, clear, simple message, but sometimes we unknowingly confuse and ultimately distract our audience – the exact opposite of our goal. Are you introducing your speaker while the topic title is showing? It’s something we all do. But to improve your impact, why not move to a slide that includes a picture of the...
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It’s about doing the work. A simple and clear message Steven Pressfield shares in Jackson Browne’s piano coming through the floor. Do you get it? The same goes for delivering a presentation. You don’t become a pro by doing it once. You don’t become a pro overnight. You practice, day after day, presentation after presentation. You do it when you suck. You do it when you are scared. You do it when you don’t know your ‘why.’ The more you do...
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