What’s the biggest mistake in trying to hone your speaking and presentation skills? Going to a masterclass and mimicking the instructor. Anyone who does a one size fits all presentation approach has missed the point. Powerful speaking and presenting isn’t about following some rules provided by TED or anyone else. Having impact – the impact you want to have requires a deeper than average knowledge of 4 things: yourself, your audience, the context of the situation, and your message. The dynamics...
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Blending projects into everyday work.
As indie professionals, we don’t have the luxury of focusing on either project or non-project based work. Our lives must be a blend of the two. We need to keep the wheels turning and lay the road to move the business forward. Balancing both is a struggle. Sometimes it’s all we can do to get our non-project / base business work completed. With endless emails, calls, social media, tax deadlines, and unplanned glitches clogging up our to-do list, we barely have...
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My passion for goal-setting started decades ago. The light was switched on for me when I first experienced the Franklin Planner System based on the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It’s a classic now, but at the time, it opened up a world I didn’t’ know existed. As a young adult, I had mostly followed the rules and direction of others. At home, my parents guided my actions, at school, I followed the teachers’ course, and at church, there was...
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