Fostering Your Team Into Better Presenters

Effective presentations are valuable to your team in countless ways. In today’s post, Pete lays out a few ways that you can foster your team members into better presenters.

Light a Fire Under Your Presentation

Are your presentations ‘human enough?’ Are they reaching the people-side and not just the business side? In a world of buzz words and business points, Dean returns to the campfire for a basic lesson in making your message more human — through “campfire storytelling.” 

Asking Good Questions as a Leader

As a leader, you almost certainly have people coming to you all the time with requests and suggestions. But the folks who report to you may not be the best communicators, and as a result, their ideas could be undersold by their words. At this point, it’s your job to give the idea the respect and thoughtfulness it deserves by asking good questions. In this post, Pete shares his thoughts about where to look to find those good questions.

Your Presence Partner

This week, Dean changes things up with a question for you about a trial balloon we are floating.

How Do We Work With Our Clients?

Different organizations have different needs, but the solution is always consistent: Higher quality presence for key team members. In today’s vlog post, Pete lays out the various ways it can work.

A Story Compass to Navigate the Win-Win

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.

What Can One Person Do?

It’s easy for one person in an organization to feel stuck and powerless, especially in larger organizations. But you are only as stuck and powerless as you believe you are. In today’s post, Pete explores the difference you can make with communication and presence.

Why Sensitivity is a Strength – Repost

Has anybody ever made you feel bad for being “too sensitive?” In today’s repost, Dean makes an argument for your sensitivity being a strength.

Learning to Elaborate

Some of us tend towards fewer words — choosing each syllable carefully, as if there was a mandate to “be clear, be brief, and be gone.”

But not every situation is like that. Sometimes we need to be able to expand on our thoughts and explain ourselves more thoroughly. And if we haven’t given ourselves permission or practice to do that in the past, it can be hard to do it when the opportunity arises.

In this post, Dean offers a simple and valuable practice that opens the door to this ability.

How Much Should You Practice?

Different people have different instincts about practice. We have some recommendations about the sweet spot between too much and too little.