Author Archives: Ethan Hyers

The intellectual study of a ‘performance moment,’ be it golf, negotiating, or your speech, can only take you so far. People who spend too much time in their head, their outline, or their script tend to visualize a perfection they will fail to realize. Dean Hyers believes you can do far better speaking your way to the great speech — like getting out on the course to learn the sport. Learn some insights that favor the verbal approach over developing a speech on your laptop. Check it out, and find more here.

When your team is invited to sell itself to a selection committee, you often need to talk about a lot of stuff. This makes it hard to stay focused and clear and on point. In today’s vlog post, Pete shares his thoughts about how to avoid all that and make the best possible point you can with each topic that you need to cover.

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Are you a Yes person or a No person? In his latest post, Pete explores how your inner dialogue can affect your impact on everyone in your life.

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You’ve made your presentation and inspired people along the way. You got them on the line, but did you reel them in? Inspiring people is one thing, but it’s not enough if they don’t take the action you’re looking for. In today’s post, Dean shows you how to set up the Call To Action as a powerful step forward that your audience wants to make. 

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The more you focus on them, the worse they get. In this vlog, Dean reveals the cause of the ums, and how to stop them, while becoming a more impressive speaker in the process. For more information on presentation support, click here.

If your firm is like most others, you are underutilizing your marketing professionals, and limiting the value that your firm gets from them. In today’s post, Pete shares his thoughts about how your firm can make the most of each of these crucial team members.

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If you are in professional services — Management Consulting, Architecture, Tax, Construction, Process Improvement, Engineering, Legal, Financial — you are in the “joy business.” I’m sure you never thought of this, but your love for your work (you know you have it) plays a profound role in your success. But few professional servants feel the joy they think about. In this vlog Dean explores the whys, and the hows, of the business of joy.

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What do you do when you’re asked to speak about something that you don’t believe in? 

Many professionals have an allergy to this situation, and are sensitive to their presence “betraying” what they really feel when they’re in it. At SagePresence, we believe this sensitivity is a very good thing. And we believe there’s a way forward in virtually all situations like this.

In today’s post, Pete shares how to navigate questionable circumstances like this while retaining your positive, confident presence.

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The stress of presenting, selling, and speaking in front of the group, can trigger self-consciousness that put your attention in the wrong place and round everything that you say downward. Image consciousness is better, as we all want to project a positive self but not be so worried. Here’s how.

Conventional wisdom about buzzwords is that they’re meaningless and overused, and that people should just stop using them. In today’s post, Pete brings a different and more empowering way to think about them, and a way to respond to them that can help everyone participating in the conversation.

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