What If Their Camera Is Off?

Some interviews to win projects are virtual, and sometimes decision-makers choose to leave their camera off in that scenario.

What can you do to keep this from throwing you off-balance? Pete shares his thoughts.

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Valuing the Slow, Steady Pace

Audiences sometimes struggle to process what a presenter is saying. Dean advocates the slow steady pace, with a fast and slow twist that keeps people awake.

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How To Be Likable

For many of us, networking has so many potentially conflicting priorities, it can be hard to focus on the one that might be the simplest and most valuable: Being likable.

In this latest post, Pete shares his thoughts about how to get out of your own way and achieve likability quickly and easily.

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Buy-In to Get a Presentation Team Ready Fast

Quickly getting your team on board with your presentation strategy is vital for success. In this post, Dean highlights the significance of team buy-in and shares effective strategies to get the team ready fast.

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When Your Team Wants Meaning

We’ve reached a point in the modern world where a generation is looking at work as a potential source for meaning. This gives business leaders a real opportunity to inspire this generation forward, and build their loyalty to your firm at the same time.

In today’s post, Pete shares his thoughts about what you as a business leader can to do to make the most of this opportunity.

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A More Human Group Collaboration Because of AI

Sharing ideas can be challenging, especially when personalities clash and defensiveness takes over. However, with the help of AI, there may be a way to mitigate these challenges. In this post, Dean offers some tips on how to leverage AI’s inherent politeness and affirmation to facilitate communication and collaboration between creators, potentially avoiding clashes and fostering a more productive and respectful exchange of ideas.

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What’s Your Vibe?

There’s no way around it: When you’re a service professional, your vibe matters. Whether you’re meeting someone new in a networking scenario, or presenting to them in a shortlist interview, or interacting with them for the Nth time during a project, your vibe – How you’re being – can make all the difference in how other people think of you, and ultimately, whether or not they want to work with you.

In his latest post, Pete shares his thoughts about how to learn more about your vibe, and strengthen your ability to steer it.

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The World Is Your Stage

Many of us experience anxiety when we need to present. But what if you’re always presenting? In today’s post, Pete offers a useful perspective on how to think about presentation and practice.

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Don’t Turn Your Inspiration Into Information

Many people take perfectly good presentations, and downgrade their powerful content in the delivery, consequently transforming potentially inspiring content into information. This vlog makes a case for aliveness: utilizing passion and boldness in communication is the key to your inspiring message.

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