When you’re trying to help a presentation team get ready, you need to be supportive, nurturing, and encouraging. But sometimes you have to get tough when the team is holding back or resisting practice. In this post, Dean explains the simple concepts of stepping up and getting stern when you know they need it.
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If you perceive yourself to be an introvert, you probably are. But that doesn’t mean that you have to short yourself on ambition, or on making an impact in this world.
In this post, Pete shares a couple practices around eye contact that you can put in place when it doesn’t matter, so you can build your muscles for when they matter the most.
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High-pressure moments don’t break us — but they can reveal us. When the stakes rise, like in a key presentation or crucial conversation, it’s easy to focus on getting everything perfect. But perfection isn’t what moves people — presence is.
In this post, Dean shares a simple but powerful way to prepare not just your words, but your mindset, so you can step into high-stakes moments with confidence, clarity, and real connection.
To learn how to show up when it matters most, explore our shortlist interview support page here.
When it comes to building buildings, it’s a very good idea to try for perfection. But when it comes to selling yourself in an interview, shooting for perfection can be a mistake.
In this short post, Pete provides some useful advice to consider the next time you present to a selection committee.
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Toxic positivity is avoidance with a smile. In this post, Dean defines the line between when being positive is helpful, and when it is not.
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Too often, service professionals – and the leaders they report to – only think about the value of presence when team members are going to get in front of a group of decision-makers for a make-or-break shortlist interview.
In this post, Pete discusses what you can do to change this up – for yourself and your team – so that your presence is already strong when that opportunity comes along.
For more about how to strengthen your team and land more projects, check out our GROW-it program here.
You can’t always win the competitive pitch, but sometimes in losing you still win, and Dean shares a case-in-point story about a team who lost, and won.
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Body language communicates all the time between speakers and their audiences. We all have ideas about how we want to look, and how our audiences should look back at us.
In this post, Pete suggests that we might be dealing with these ideas in a completely backwards way, and offers a solution that you might find counterintuitive.
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VIBE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF, no matter what words are spoken.
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Propranolol is a beta-blocker medicine that helps to reduce the symptoms of anxiety, including sweating and shaking. People have started using it when they are facing an important presentation.
But Propranolol doesn’t treat the feeling of anxiety, only the physical symptoms that come with it. In this post, Pete shares a thought about what you can do to actually treat the feeling of anxiety in the run up to a presentation, and get it out of your way.
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