A Key Element In Public Speaking: Timing Pauses

Timing is essential when speaking in public. The cliché: It is not what you say but more on how you say it, applies so much to public speaking.

Where you put your pauses during your presentation is one of the important aspects of maintaining an audience that is free from drowsing off. Couple this with humor and you are definitely on a roll.

Timing is the element involved during reactions that are spontaneous especially on developments during your delivery that are unexpectedly expected. Continue reading

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Audiences Are Your Friend

For the rank amateur to the ignorant professional, audiences create the same effect no matter how small they are to a speaker. Fear and anxiety.

From a single person to a crowd as big as the fans in the Super Bowl, speaking in front of a serious listening audience is the true test and baptism of fire.

Despite this, audiences are predictable. Audiences listen to you because they want to learn something from the speaker.

Following this logic, the speaker would do well to follow the strategy of making it Continue reading

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A Monster Of A Leadership Challenge: The Creature That Ate Your Career

In the 1964 movie, “Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster”, King Ghidorah was a gigantic, dragon-like creature that came from outer space.  It had three heads on long necks, bat-like wings, no arms, and twin tails.  It terrorized Tokyo until Godzilla, in a role reversal as protector rather than destroyer, defeated it in a terrible battle and chased it back into outer space.

As a leader, you don’t have to go to the movies to face Ghidorah.  You do it every day.  Ghidorah is the three-headed monster of fear, failure, and self-doubt.  How you deal with the triple threat will determine to a great extent how your career develops.

Though fear, failure and self-doubt are each separate, they cannot be separated: Continue reading

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A Leadership Secret: Replace Goals With Processes Using The Shared Dream

I bring leadership processes that help leaders get more results faster continually.  The results will come in a specific length of time.  The results will go beyond what the leaders are achieving now.   The results can be measured, validated, and used as springboards for even more results. The results can be translated into money saved/earned.  The results can’t be achieved without the help of Leadership Talks.  And yet …

Yet … getting this big jump in results scares many leaders and can lead to burn out in the people they lead.

You’d think leaders would welcome such results.  No such luck. Here’s why: They see results as a point not a process.

Seeing results in this way prevents you from getting the more substantial results you’re really capable of.  Look, results are limitless.  Those who don’t know that don’t know much about leadership.  Those who believe that must believe in the process-reality of results.

Let’s look at the difference between a goal and a process.  You’ve been dealing Continue reading

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Award for a Leadership Development Program

Why do organizations come together every year at the 2005 Excellence Fair held by the Professional Association for Computer Training?

It is because something worked well for an organization and valuable information needs to be shared.  This year at the 2005 Excellence Fair it was Cargill, the international food provider (located in over 59 countries), that was recognized for their Transition into Leadership curriculum that helps employees transition into leadership roles.

So, what is it about Cargill’s leadership curriculum that has led to such great success?  It began when Cargill recognized that great team members also make Continue reading

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