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Know Your Audience, Smash Your Speech!

There’s so many tips online but the truth is, the success of a speech is dependent on your audience.

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Big Boys Don’t Cry!

When people are emotional, they do not work as effectively, and in these situations, managers often don’t know how to handle their employees.

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Making An Impact With Your Speech

Speaking in public is one of the greatest fears for many people. Here are 6 tips for giving a knock out performance.

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The FIRST Question CEO’s Should Ask Themselves…

As a CEO you probably ask yourself many questions…I have the first one you SHOULD be asking right here.

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Lead to Victory: The Battle Plan for your Boardroom

The boardroom and the battle field aren’t too different. You must shield your employees, build the strongest team and lead that team to victory.

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Do You Believe in ‘Happiness Hours’?

Of course, the key to employee motivation with increased performance and productivity is dependent upon excellent management initiatives and good communications.

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We may listen but do we actually hear? asks Entrepreneur, Carole Spiers

In our every day lives, we may assume that what we have said has been actually heard, and we take it for granted that it is the case. Unfortunately, many times it is not. Either because the other person was not concentrating – they were looking at their computer screen, their Blackberry or just distracted elsewhere. So we make the assumption, ‘I speak – you listen – you retain – you have heard me’.

Not so. I speak. You ostensibly listen but you don’t necessarily concentrate and you certainly do not retain the conversation because you didn’t really hear what I said. Think how many misunderstandings have taken place, over the years, due entirely to an unintentional disconnect between speaker and listener.

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Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says … Effective Communication Skills: Active Listening

Experienced negotiators often make use of a subtle form of questioning that does not make people feel they are being questioned at all – Active Listening. This is the technique of guiding a conversation by making minimal gestures and utterances that suggest empathy, while not actually indicating agreement. Attention is diverted away from the questioner […]

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