Adding Energy

Do you feel like your presentations might be lacking in energy, but because you’re “in your head,” you can’t be sure? In today’s post, Pete offers a particular direction you can point your attention in that can help you recognize exactly when an energy dip occurs, and what you can do about it in the moment.

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Commit To Clarity

What’s the number one most important thing in a shortlist interview – or, really, any presentation? Pete suggests that it’s about the clarity of your message. Focusing on anything else creates a danger of getting in your own way. Check this latest post out, and let us know how it lands on you in the chat box below.

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Not Confident? Get Mad!

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’s explores a particular emotion that can fuel your confidence and inspire your audiences.

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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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Make Your Point, Expand On It, and Distill It

Aristotle was a pretty smart guy, and figured out quite a bit about how to communicate effectively. Interviewing is a crucible where effective communication is crucial. You have to figure out how to be as memorable as possible without wasting a moment to rote repetition. In my latest post, I share our formula for how to update Aristotle’s advice and apply it to the interview.

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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.

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Make Your Damn Case

A lot of interview teams are worried about coming across as pushy in their interviews, and so they choose to simply present information. We believe that’s a mistake, and tends to lead to lost opportunities.

In today’s post, Dean talks about winning by making a clear and bold case for your solution — taking a stand for the value of your solution.

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