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Big Goals? Bum-Glue Will Get You There! | 31 January 2012 |
How to see important goals through to completion. Read more  |
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Don't Mis-Compete | 31 January 2012 |
Understanding how to be effective in whatever competition defines your success. Read more |
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You Could Do Everything Right and Still Lose Your Audience | 30 January 2012 |
How effective speakers take charge of their environment. Read more |
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Leave Your Mind in Capable Hands | 30 January 2012 |
Next year, you will be the person you spend this year training yourself to be. Read more |
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When Tongues Straddle Worlds | 12 January 2012 |
The differences - and similarities - between Toastmasters and professional speaking. Read more |
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Trends to Expect in Speaking and Presenting | 9 January 2012 |
Douglas Kruger's predictions for the evolution of public speaking. Read more |
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Fresh Thinking on New Year's Resolutions | 3 January 2012 |
Instead of Goals, try Trends. Read more |
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Why THINKING Might be the Worst Thing for You | 5 December 2011 |
Overcoming goal-paralysis. Read more |
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Use Vlogging to Position Yourself as an Expert | 8 November 2011 |
7 Simple Insights into the Art of Video Blogging; with co-author Jonathan Houston. Read more |
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Win More Pitches: Mythology Makes you Memorable | 7 November 2011 |
How to go one step beyond 'Selling the Sizzle.' Read more |
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Advice to My Younger Self | 3 November 2011 |
6 simple principles I wish I'd learned 10 years ago. Read more |
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Expertise Determines Your Pay-Scale | 1 November 2011 |
- But Positioning is the Loophole that Lets You Earn More! Read more |
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Marketers: Don't Take Your Script on Stage | 26 October 2011 |
How Jargon Murders Message Read more |
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Steve Jobs - How to Speak Like the Master | 7 October 2011 |
Lessons from his Stanford University Speech. Read more |
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There's No Such Thing as 'Just For Now' | 20 September 2011 |
Why every job along the way is a part of your dream job. Read more |
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To Become a Guru, you must Leave a Trail of Bread-crumbs | 6 September 2011 |
A useful tool for entrepreneurs and brandbuilders who want to create dialogue with clients. Read more |
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Your Pitch is too Important to Waste Time on Facts | 1 September 2011 |
How to cut through the clutter and out-pitch your competitors. Read more |
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Without Energy, Your Presentation is Frankenstein on the Slab | 1 September 2011 |
Infusing your speeches with 'underlying energies' for greater persuasiveness Read more |
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4 Techniques for Dispelling Hamster-Thinking at the Helm | 12 July 2011 |
So you're in charge? Now be hamster-free...! Read more |
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Don't Forget to Treat Yourself to a Future | 20 June 2011 |
Hoarding small chunks of time to achieve your own goals. Read more |
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A Hot Cow-Prod on the Left Buttock of Laziness | 9 June 2011 |
How to re-ignite your entrepreneurial hunger. Read more |
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The 5 Rapid-Fire Facts Technique for Speakers | 25 May 2011 |
How to introduce a story while enhancing your own credibility. Read more |
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Mastering the Brag / Bash Balance | 16 May 2011 |
Good speakers walk a fine line between self-deprecation and bragging. Have you found a happy medium? Read more |
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Planning for the Unplanned in your Sales Pitches | 13 May 2011 |
...When life happens, your mental shoe-laces needn't come untied. Make the sale anyway. Read more |
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Get in the way of the energy | 9 May 2011 |
The Electric Circuit Theory for entrepreneurs Read more |
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"Ford presenter, pothole. Pothole, Ford presenter. You two play nicely now." | 26 April 2011 |
A humorous account of a presentation that went wrong Read more |
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Teeny, Tiny Touches; Great Big Walloping Improvements | 14 April 2011 |
Add a little polish to your Public Speaking. Read more |
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Do Your Brand Justice with Company Presentation Guidelines... | 5 April 2011 |
...that have nothing to do with PowerPoint Read more |
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Mental Munchies for the Workplace | 31 March 2011 |
Your recipe for career advancement. Read more |
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The Burning Beatle Theory for Leaders | 29 March 2011 |
It's not about the blazer. Read more |
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Important Presentation? If you remember nothing else... | 22 March 2011 |
The boiled-down basics for impactful speaking. Read more |
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Oscar Night! But brace yourself; they let them speak | 1 March 2011 |
A rather critical look at acceptance speeches Read more |
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How to look confident...even though you're speaking in public | 1 March 2011 |
12 tips for overcoming nerves. Read more |
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(Too Many) Schools teaching Archaic Ideas about Public Speaking | 24 February 2011 |
New guidelines for more modern presenting. Read more |
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Keeping Cosy with Key Customers | 22 February 2011 |
How to use thought leadership to stay in touch. Read more |
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Planning a road show? Take these tips on tour | 18 February 2011 |
5 Tips for driving your message home. Read more |
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Public Speaking's Great Big Sin-Bin | 10 February 2011 |
6 mistakes to avoid in your speeches. Read more |
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Using Frameworks to Position Yourself as an Expert | 20 January 2011 |
Be identified by your unique way of organising ideas. Read more |
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Experts Act and React Differently | 11 January 2011 |
Using feedback to become great Read more |
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Give your audience a serious wedgie! | 6 January 2011 |
Designing language that gets your speeches noticed Read more |
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Don't Do New Year's Resolutions! | 3 January 2011 |
- Wait a week, then read this: Read more |
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Let your fingers do the walking... | 29 November 2010 |
Does your Sales team really need more training? Or does your Thought-Leadership need work? Read more |
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Be a constant producer | 29 November 2010 |
Position yourself as an industry expert by switching on your mental factory lights Read more |
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'Value' is just teaching them to use you | 13 September 2010 |
Want more Sales? Provide customer education Read more |
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12 Tips for a Blitz on 'Boring' | 13 September 2010 |
Need to spice up your presentation? Read more |
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Position yourself as an expert by being a Producer | 21 July 2010 |
The strategic advantage to keeping your mental factory-lights blazing. Read more |
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Fanatical Performance | 20 July 2010 |
Why deciding to be Good isn't as effective as deciding to be The Best Read more |
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Tired of Jumping down throats? | 17 June 2010 |
Try this clever communication alternative Read more |
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Presenting to the Undead | 17 June 2010 |
How to avoid audience disconnect. Read more |
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Turns out Problems are the point | 25 May 2010 |
Why human beings are designed to face and solve issues Read more |
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Get more marketing mileage out of presentations | 24 May 2010 |
Tactful but effective techniques Read more |
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Hamster-Thinking | 22 May 2010 |
...ever catch yourself doing it? Read more |
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Think your way out of a black hole | 19 May 2010 |
Six ways to sun-dry a soggy mindset Read more |
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How to Position Yourself as an Expert | 18 May 2010 |
Don't decide to be good. Decide to be the very best... Read more |
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Presentations are not about Fact, but Impact | 18 May 2010 |
Suggestions for turning dusty dry presentations into something more memorable... Read more |
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No, those jeans don't make your bum look big... ...It's your big bum that's doing it | 11 May 2010 |
Personal accountability, and why you should never ask others to rationalize your situation Read more |
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Beware the February Fizzle! New Year's Resolutions Part II | 24 February 2010 |
New Year's Resolutions off to a bumpy start? Here are some thoughts... Read more |
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Manage the Message at your Conference | 24 February 2010 |
Good idea: Train your presenters before the big day
Great idea: Align their messages! Here’s how...
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Your New Year's Resolutions - Buffet style | 5 January 2010 |
Some useful ideas for practical goals Read more |
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Things you can learn from a prostitute | 5 January 2010 |
Our lives are the sum-total of a series of choices Read more |
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Using Year-end to leap-frog the competition | 6 November 2009 |
6 specific ideas. Read more |
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Where does Talent come from? The Wesbank ad got it right | 6 November 2009 |
Ever seen the Wesbank ad with the Kendo swordsman? The dramatic voice-over says, “A recent study asked, where does talent come from? Is it programmed at birth into a select few, or is it something that can be drawn from you, inch by inch?”
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Talent and the Mozart Myth | 4 November 2009 |
New studies on Talent are revealing some fascinating things. Could we ever be like Mozart? Read more |
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Make it easy for customers to buy from you | 4 November 2009 |
A clever approach to Sales. Examine your channel to find barriers, and use creative approaches to make it easier for customers to give you their money. Read more |
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Thought Leadership - Yes, there is a formula | 4 November 2009 |
Whether it's speaking, writing, or interacting with the media, there is a formula for positioning yourself as an expert. Read more |
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The Peripherals of Public Speaking - a handy checklist | 15 September 2009 |
Most presenters live in fear of those moments when they have to address an audience. And yet, it’s typically the peripheral stuff that tends to go wrong – not the presentation itself. Why is this? Because most presenters focus so exclusively on their content that they are not able to adapt to real-world curve-balls.
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Better Leadership - Eskom or a tiny radio station? | 15 September 2009 |
What do megawatts and decibels have in common? Both require leadership in order to reach the nation. Eskom occasionally and intermittently supplies the former. Nestled in the suburbs of Midrand, there's a teeny, tiny radio station that's fighting valiantly to provide the latter. Let's compare leadership styles. Read more |
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