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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What Is Presence For?

Whether we’re honest with ourselves our not, we all want to influence other people one way or another. And that’s what presence is for.

In today’s post, Pete explores a couple fundamental concepts that can help you can get into the right mindset to elevate your presence and get more of what you want in your life, career, and business.

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You Are The Show

Professionals can’t rely on their slides and backgrounds to make them present professionally. You carry the show, and Dean Hyers talks through simple areas of focus to make sure that you’re bringing MORE to your client presentations, team presentations, and the ones you do to land the work.

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Short-Circuiting Fear of Rejection

Most of us hate the idea of rejection, and when we face the prospect of an interview to win a project, that visceral emotion can get in the way of the confidence we want to project.

But what if we’re thinking about the whole experience wrong? What if we can short-circuit this fear just by thinking differently? In today’s post, Pete shares a perspective that might help you do just that.

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Fear of Sounding Dumb

One of the most common fears that keep people from presenting well – and from presenting at all – is a fear of sounding dumb to their audience. They imagine their audience is judging them harshly, and the whole thing is a trap.

But what if it’s all in their heads? What if a huge part of presenting well is in your mindset? In today’s post, Pete focuses on this simple concept.

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Turn Your Presentation Into a Conversation

When you’re competing to win a project, you don’t always have the option to take the formality down a notch and just have a conversation with the decision-makers, but the opportunity is often more available than you think it is. When the circumstances are right, it’s a fantastic approach that we highly recommend. But not everybody knows how to make it happen. In this video, Pete shares our secret for getting your audience to speak up early, and to turn your presentation into a conversation.

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Do You Overshare?

Have you ever had the experience of speaking up and instantly regretting it? As an intuitive communicator who leads with his emotions, Dean has plenty of experience in this arena. In today’s post, he shares his take on three simple and useful questions to consider before you share.

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Speaking Your Way To Great Speaking

Practice is crucial, but it can be hard to find time for. And sometimes when you do, you waste all your time thinking about how to practice. Here, Dean shares his secret for how he does it — not by scheduling it, but by simply doing it.

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Present Over Perfect

There’s always a struggle between being as perfect as you can be, and being as real as you can be — being present. Dean advocates for being in the moment over any amount of perfection you may attain. In this clip, Dean reconciles two good things — preparing and being present — so that you can find the magic.

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