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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Apart from being a fan of the movies, I enjoy watching the show to see how professionals handle themselves when they have to present in front of a worldwide audience of millions. Click headline to continue.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

One of my favorite questions to ask these audiences is, “How many of you think of yourselves or have been referred to by others as the ‘go-to person?’ ” Usually, about every hand in the room goes up. A big part of my work as a coach involves working with high-potential leaders in workshops, keynotes and webinars. I asked that.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Since then, I’ve asked hundreds of audiences of executives to give me a show of hands if they’re in the same job they were in a year ago, but the scope of the job has gotten bigger in the last year. My experience since 2009 suggests the meat in the sandwich dynamic has become more pronounced.

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MARCH 7, 2016

I’ve worked hard over the years to get better and better as a speaker and take the feedback I get from audiences seriously. The next time you’re planning a talk, think about what your personal connection is to the topic, why it matters to you and consider sharing that with the audience. They’re simple but powerful ideas.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Turns out, though, that they’re playing in a department store window and the audience is out on the sidewalk watching through the glass. If you’ve spent very much time at all as a leader or presenter, you know how important the sense of connection between the speaker and the audience is to the success of the event. What about you?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Again, thinking “get to” instead of “have to” was the key to a good experience for both me and the audience. A few years ago, for instance, I gave another big speech to a conference in Mexico City where many of the 1,000 plus people were getting simultaneous translation in Spanish as I delivered my speech in English.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

In speaking to his online audience about the challenges we’re facing this year he encouraged us to remain optimistic because, as he said, “Optimism may not be the rational choice but it is the moral choice.” Optimism : Another leader I had the opportunity to hear from over the weekend was Dr. Jim Kim, the former president of the World Bank.

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MARCH 9, 2021

For me, in some ways, I’m able to establish quicker and deeper connections with my audiences through chat conversations and other interactive features of virtual meeting technology. For my clients, the virtual approach has reduced the barriers to entry of leadership development like participants’ time out of the office and travel expenses.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Over the course of those years, I went from not being able to walk around the block without support to doing headstands and arm balances not just in the yoga studio but for fun in front of audiences I was speaking to. I didn’t start out doing that; it took years to get there.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

.  The subtitle of the book sums up what it’s about: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences. She and her company help speakers present stories that engage the audience mentally, visually and emotionally.  If you’ve watched some of the speaker videos from the TED conference, you’re familiar with Nancy’s work.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In the years that I’ve been coaching clients and audiences on creating their own Life GPS® personal planning strategy , I’ve learned that identifying the outcomes they want to help create in their communities is often the most challenging component for people. I get that because, for many years, it was the most challenging for me too.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Depending on the organization you’re leading, you will likely have both internal and external audiences to attend to. People will pay more attention to what you do and say. They’ll have expectations for you that you may not be aware of.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

The audience that night was a large group of high potentials in the company who were there for a flagship two-week development experience. I began by sharing Next Level behaviors self-assessment data from other high potential groups I’d worked with at GE.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

When I talk with my audiences about that, I’m assuming that it’s a room full of healthy, positive people who can make smart choices about the weather they’re creating as leaders. Chances are that, at some point in your career, you’re going to work for a human tornado.

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MARCH 27, 2019

Consider the audience: Make an extra effort to confirm that you fully understand the world of the leaders in your program. It shouldn’t feel like a random assortment of unconnected cats and dogs. End to end design matters for the overall program and each element within it. It all clearly needs to hang together.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In the press conference before his last game, someone asked Vin how he made his audience members feel like friends. Connection: While they each worked alone, both Scully and Palmer relied on and encouraged connection with others.

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JULY 20, 2010

When we know something, we tend to communicate it from our head and lose our audience. One concept that made a big impact on me is “the curse of knowledge”. We might not be able to learn with an open mind when we think we know already.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

I wanted to prove to people that jazz has an audience. "There's no question that being an advocate eclipsed my reputation as a musician," Dr. Taylor said in a 2007 article in The Post Magazine. "It was my doing. I had to do that for me." You may already may be in it and, if you’re not, it may not be that far away. 

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When dealing with someone who is not part of our inner circle, leave the jargon and official talk behind, keep it simple, and communicate with your audience in mind; that's my motto. Posted by: Hljoseph | November 25, 2010 at 12:05 PM Verify your Comment Previewing your Comment Posted by: | This is only a preview.

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AUGUST 9, 2010

I've been asking audiences for the last few years how many people have had a deep end of the pool experience in their career that turbo charged their development. On your point about the developmental aspects of tough assignments, my gut and experience says we learn more in uncomfortable situations than the comfortable ones.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

       Shaping your communication to the desired outcome and specific audience. .  From the following list, identify one or two opportunities for improvement that could make you a more effective leader: a.             Coaching skills 5. 

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JUNE 26, 2019

Probably because for the past five years I’ve regularly been asking my leadership keynote audiences to raise their hands if they get at least seven hours of sleep a night. On average, around 20 percent of my audience members raise their hands for seven or more hours of sleep. Why was that one my favorite? Why seven hours?

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MARCH 31, 2017

One of the fun things about the session was the cool software we had that allowed the audience to use their phones to contribute to word clouds on my slide deck. I asked the audience to use the word cloud technology to write down words that illustrated each category.

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