Body Language is Language

Is your body language giving you away? Expression was the original human language before speaking and writing, but these days, people forget that body language actually communicates information.

In his latest post, Dean reminds us about the importance of body language and its role in communicating confidence.

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You’d Better Sit Down For This

You’d better sit down for this one… but don’t stop moving. Dean addresses that flat, boring, uninspiring “TV” you all are bringing to all your virtual and hybrid meetings. You tell us you want to accomplish connections like you do in person, but you’re not behaving on screen anywhere close to how you do in person. Dean offers simple ideas to bring your virtual participation into the three-dimensional world.

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Rhyming Your Way to Better Speaking

There’s a poetry to speaking, and you’re no poet. In today’s post, Dean talks about how the practice of rhyming off-stage helps you bring more poetry to your improvisational speaking. The goal isn’t to rhymes in the presentation, but to develop the skill of finding words that combine better to make more elegant articulations as you speak from the heart.

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Do They Like You?

One of the biggest things that can get in the way of confident presence is worrying about whether your audience likes you. This is a natural concern – and in many ways, a healthy one. In this post, Pete shares how to get it out of your way.

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A Speech is a Tree and Words are Leaves

Struggling to find your natural speaking voice? Do you find yourself clinging to a script only to come off sounding forced? In today’s post, Dean gives you a simple way to think of speaking that will set you free and let the words grow themselves.

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One Area of Presenting Where You Shouldn’t Get Any Better

Whether they’re pitching their firm’s services or presenting to inspire their team, some professionals get hung up around a certain circumstance. In today’s post, Pete discusses that circumstance, and says YES, getting hung up here is GOOD.

Check it out and let us know below if you agree!

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A Fast-Track to Presence

In this short post, Pete points you to a specific place for you to look to find your authentic presence, and he offers a specific thing for you to do to start cultivating it.

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Instinct is The New Process

In today’s post, Dean explores learning and knowledge, and the tension between following a process and operating on instinct.

What is ideal, and how do we get there?

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What Can You Appreciate?

This isn’t a rhetorical question.

This is a focused post that invites you to put it into action NOW and immediately benefit from it. Then take a moment and fill us in: What can you appreciate right now?

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Presenting is like Dancing

Presenting and dancing can both inspire a fair amount of pressure and stress, because you’re stepping out of your everyday situation and into a next level of visibility. How do you step up while still feeling like yourself? In this post, Dean gives you a simple concept to put into practice.

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