Blog bites: Be a champion for your audience Adopt a confident physiology Bring your energy and enthusiasm Banish your inner critic When we ask people what one quality they wish they had more of, the answer is almost always ‘confidence’. Whether you want to sell an idea to your colleagues, influence a senior leader or …
Blog bites: Vocal tone + hand gestures = negotiation success Use the 3 Ps: projection, pace and pitch Recently, we watched a woman try to negotiate with her child as he stood screaming in the street. “Please be quiet Tommy!” she pleaded with her hands open and palms facing up. You’ll remember from Negotiation Ninja Part …
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How often have you presented a great initiative only to have it fall on deaf ears? Too many people think features and benefits will sell their idea. Features and benefits help…. but there is a magic step that has to happen first. Let’s explore this idea together…. The one question in every person’s mind when …
Let’s talk about your voice. Many find listening to their voices on tape or video uncomfortable, usually accompanied with a rhetorical ‘Do I really sound like that?’ question. Given that we ‘hear’ our voices all the time it seems surprising that most of us are unaware of tone, pitch, timbre, tempo, projection and the like. …
The following might seem ridiculously obvious, and what I will suggest as a behavioural practice almost childishly simplistic. Next time you are in a meeting make a conscious assessment of those in attendance. Determine those who are nervous, engaged, self-conscious, assured, compliant, the power players, the disengaged or the negative. Do this before the meeting …
