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The Presentations Japan Series

Dale Carnegie Training

Persuasion power is one of the kingpins of business success. We recognise immediately those who have the facility and those who don"t. We certainly trust, gravitate toward and follow those with persuasion power. Those who don"t have it lack presence and fundamentally disappear from view and become invisible. We have to face the reality, persuasion power is critical for building our careers and businesses. The good thing is we can all master this ability. We can learn how to become persuasive

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13:14

Storytelling For Business

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/12/18

Best intentions, higher callings, righteousness – all good stuff but without good communication, our efforts fail. Instinctively, we all know storytelling is a great communication tool, but the word itself is a problem. We associate it with bedtime stories and therefore the idea sounds a bit childish. In the modern era, Hollywood talks about the arc of the story or in politics, the media punishes the lack of narrative. Actually, this is storytelling just dressed up in more formal attire. The other

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12:37

Making Yourself Clear

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/12/11

Public speaking throws up many fears and challenges for all of us. As part of High Impact Presentations, one of our public speaking courses, we have been surveying the various participants for the last four years about the types of things they most want to improve. The most common request, from both Japanese and English speakers, is to “be clear when presenting”. What do they mean by clear? The speakers want their message to get across to the audience, to be easy to follow, to have some impact from

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09:55

How To Destroy Your Reputation In 60 Seconds

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/12/04

It is a big crowd, yet the conversation suddenly dies and a hushed silence now sweeps through the room. All eyes are fixed forward, as the MC tears at the envelope and announces this year’s award winner. Polite applause fills the air as the proud selectee stands up, glances around smiling, shakes hands and navigates between the maze of tables and chairs up to the podium. Receiving the prize, obediently posing for the photographer, our winner turns and begins to move gingerly towards the microphone

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13:59

Presentation Effectiveness

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/11/27

We are such a judgmental lot aren’t we! We form opinions about people within seconds of seeing them, often even before we hear them speak. We judge their dress, their body language, their style without knowing anything about them as a person. We are slow to unwind our first impression as well, so those first seconds of any interaction are vital. We are all critics too, when it comes to presentations. We want the best, we want to be educated, entertained, wowed in our seats and we are usually

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08:48

Delivering Presentations With Clarity

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/11/20

There are a number of common structures for giving presentations and one of the most popular is the opening-key points/evidence-closing variety. We consider the length of the presentation, the audience, the purpose of our talk and then we pour the contents into this structure. Generally, in a 30 minute speech we can only consider a few key points we can cover, so we select the most powerful and then look for the evidence which will persuade our audience. This is where a lot of presentations suddenly

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09:40

The Presenter’s Mindset

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/11/13

Our mental approach to our activities determines our success. We know this in sports and in business, but when it comes to speaking in public, we somehow manage to forget this vital point. We know we have to make a presentation, so we get straight into the details and logistics, without spending even a moment on our proper mindset for the activity. Given we are putting our personal and professional brand out there for all to see, you would recognise this was a fairly important opportunity to get

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10:50

367 Prepping For Future Presentations

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/11/06

We may not have the chance to give that many public presentations in a year, but usually we will have some common themes which we can speak on. As businesspeople, we will have our areas of expertise and experience and based on those attributes, the hosts will invite us to present. Basically, in the lull between hostilities, we do nothing and just wait for the next chance to speak. If we want to improve as presenters, that passive approach doesn’t make any sense. There are a number of things we

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11:35

366 What To Do When You Get Heckled While Presenting

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/10/30

The chances of this happening anywhere is pretty remote, but especially so in Japan. Audiences here are polite and wouldn’t be so rude as to interrupt the speaker. Having said that, things can happen for which you are not prepared. I was delivering my debut speech in Nagoya, as the founding Australian Consul, in Japanese, and the unexpected happened. A local representative of one of the main Japanese government organisations was sitting in the front row on my left. I began the speech with a

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10:23

365 The Power Of Anecdotes When Presenting

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/10/23

We often mix up words like metaphor and analogy, using them in the wrong context. Anecdote is another word we often use, but sometimes are not sure what it means. Basically, it is storytelling about a real incident or about a person. I was reminded of the power of the anecdote the other day, when listening to a presentation to a select private group, by an international captain of industry. He was going through what their firm was doing globally and particularly here in Japan. As presentations

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11:25

364 What To Do When You Get Heckled While Presenting

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/10/16

The chances of this happening anywhere is pretty remote, but especially so in Japan. Audiences here are polite and wouldn’t be so rude as to interrupt the speaker. Having said that, things can happen for which you are not prepared. I was delivering my debut speech in Nagoya, as the founding Australian Consul, in Japanese, and the unexpected happened. A local representative of one of the main Japanese government organisations was sitting in the front row on my left. I began the speech with a

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11:21

363 Get The Full Package As A Presenter

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/10/09

I had an interesting collision of presenting styles recently. We were conducting one of our High Impact Presentations Courses and I was one of the two instructors for this programme. On Day One, a very important pivot takes place. They do three presentations that day and during the third one, they stop focusing on themselves. In the first two, they are consumed with nerves and trying to remember all of the things they are supposed to be doing. One participant publicly mentioned that she hates

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11:14

362 The Physicality Of Presenting

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/10/02

Presenting is physical labour. We can do it with minimal energy or we can expend large amounts of effort. There are dangers with both extremes. The dull speaker, barely getting the words out of their mouth and hard to hear, isn’t going to ignite much interest from the members of the audience. The nervous speaker, pacing across the stage like a junk yard dog prowling the fence perimeter, is very tiring to watch. The energy output cannot be at one constant setting either. Full bore on being

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11:39

361 Should Presenters Use Eye Contact In Japan?

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/09/25

Japanese culture is pretty specific about making eye contact with people. In ancient times, a commoner might lose their head if a samurai felt they were making eye contact with them in an arrogant or disrespectful way. Even amongst samurai, in the presence of superiors, you would only raise your eyes to make eye contact when invited to do so, otherwise your right place would be looking down at the floor with your head bowed. Here we are in the modern era and making direct eye contact is still

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10:37

360 We Are All Brimming With Stories For Our...

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/09/18

It is a mystery why more people don’t bring storytelling into their presentations. Technical subjects may seem to be oblivious to storytelling, because we are only dealing with hard data. Absolutely not the case. This type of dry talk really benefits from injecting stories into the presentation. Numbers can be brought to life through telling stories. Our minds are geared up to absorb stories much easier than a download of numbers, so it makes a lot of sense to introduce the stories behind the

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11:42

359 How To Present When The Topic Is Unforgiving

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/09/12

In some professions, there is a lot of media scrutiny on what the speaker is saying. The organisation they represent also has very strict rules around who can say what. This makes giving the presentation very restrictive and difficult. Usually, the people in that line of work, are used to giving these types of presentations, so they are accustomed to be being very guarded in their remarks. They also become very guarded in the way they deliver the presentation. The danger is the message

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10:28

358 How Casual Should I Be When Presenting?

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/09/04

We know that being formal and stiff creates distance between the speaker and the audience. We also know that a “conversational tone” is ideal, as it creates a strong feeling of inclusivity between the presenter and those in the room. That conversational tone means a relaxed style on the part of the speaker, but how relaxed? We gauge people’s education and intelligence level by the way they speak. So we want to sound smart, but we don’t want to sound snobby. Where is the line? If you speak with

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10:10

357 How Opinionated Should The Presenter Be?

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/08/28

There are facts, provable information, data, research results and opinions. What is the right mix when presenting? Should we just marshal the detail, lay it out for the audience and let them draw their own conclusions or do we need to direct them? How expert do we have to be to start handing out advice to others? Are we seeding the emergence of opposition to what we are talking about, because members of the audience don’t want some speaker lecturing to them? Are we setting ourselves up for a

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10:25

356 Go Bigger When Presenting

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/08/21

I was held up at the hospital, which those who live in Tokyo will know, is a typical occurrence, so I was late to the presentation. One of the speakers had just started, as I slid into my seat at the back. The screen was hard to read, because the scale of the content was small. The presenter was speaking in a voice range which was probably fine for those seated at the most proximate tables, but was hard to catch at the back of the room. I missed the very start, but I could tell the speakers

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10:41

355 When Is Too Much, Too Much When Presenting?

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/08/14

“You are too loud”, “You are too high energy”. These were some survey comments following some training I was delivering for 60 managers for a client. You can imagine that the venue to hold ten tables of 6 participants each has to be quite large and spacious and that was the case. To project to an audience that size, in such a large venue, means you have to really lift yourself and pump out a lot of energy. The brief from the client was that many of these managers had lost their mojo over the

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354 Presenting To But Not Engaging The Audience

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2023/08/07

“I have been presenting since I was 17, but I am not good at engaging the audience”. This comment from a man in his fifties was telling. He was in a very technical area which requires a highly acute mind and he is a leader in that field. He has a big job today for a famous brand name firm. If he has been getting lots of practice presenting since a young age, why has he not been able to transition across to engaging his audience? He made the comment to me unprompted, so he was aware of the gap

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