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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Many companies invest in training programs that initially seem promising, but over time their impact fades, leaving little lasting value.
In this post, Dean will explore four strategies to ensure that your training investment creates long-term benefits and potentially even drives cultural change within your organization. By implementing these techniques, you can transform your training programs into enduring assets that deliver ongoing value for your company and its employees.
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Leaders face a conundrum: Do I share my personal struggles, or stick to my successes? They want to come across strong, but they sometimes misunderstand the relationship between the perceived threat of vulnerability and the strength that results from actually humbling yourself. Check out Dean’s latest post to hear how he recommends threading that needle.
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The higher up the ladder you go, the more your perspective matters, and the more confident you need to be of your convictions as you present them to your team. In today’s post, Dean explores a particular emotion that can fuel your confidence and inspire your audiences.
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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.
If you’re a leader who wants to bring more charismatic influence and inspiration to your presentations, we can help you here.
It’s really not the question. Don’t script. It’s hard to accept this because you want to control the result, and everyone has their opinion about what you should say. Dean has a solution for you: The sweet spot between scripting and winging it.
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Need to become the kind of speaker who can blow the roof off the place, but only have a day to get there? Most skills take months to evolve into, but if you’re a new CEO or a leader transitioning into a place of higher visibility, you might need that to happen faster. How about 1 day to transform your skills? Dean implements Radical Transformation of Speaking Skills and Executive Presence, and wants to help you jump to your next level NOW, with practice techniques to sustain that higher level for years to come.
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In this constantly changing world that demands ongoing learning, the single most important trait to have as a professional is curiosity. What can you as a leader do to encourage and cultivate curiosity in your team? In today’s post, Pete poses that question and invites you to explore with him.
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Is the thing that holds you back from speaking well — or speaking at all — the way it makes you feel? The “presenting feeling” can start long before you actually present, and can cascade to interfere with your ability to think and be natural.
But what if you could change what that “presenting feeling” is? What if you could feel great when you present? In this post, Dean shares a technique to get there in a surprisingly simple way.
When you and your people are experiencing the same problems and want to achieve the same goals, a simple shared story is all you need. But what do you do when you and your people are experiencing different challenges and have different goals? Dean lays out a SagePresence tool that helps you figure it out.