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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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296: Pointless Presentations

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/06/27

I am just back from a highly pointless presentation. The bureaucrats who run the Tokyo Metro subway system and the Tokyo Government Planning Division were presenting on their plan for a new subway line to be constructed in my neighbourhood. This is my second occasion to attend one of these types of presentations. The previous one was about changing the direction of aircraft landing at Haneda and for planes to fly low over our neighbourhoods, which unfortunately are in the new direct flight path.

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13:30

295: The Presenter's Dilemma

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/06/20

The request has been made to give a talk on a certain subject. The date and time are fixed and now the work begins on the preparation. Here is how not to do it! Start with plundering previous slide decks for re-usable content and create new original content for this particular presentation. Fuss mightily over which slides go in and which go out. Discover even after that Herculean effort to pare down the beast, that it still needs bits to be lopped off. Does this sound tremendously familiar to

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13:33

294: Imposter Syndrome When Presenting

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/06/13

Self-awareness, self-belief, self-direction, self-discipline – there are a host of these “self” aspects to who we are and often related to who we are not. If you grew up with a silver spoon firmly in your mouth, went to expensive, exclusive private schools, extensively travelled abroad with your parents at a young age and enjoyed the summers at your Swiss Boarding school in your youth, that is terrific. The chances are strong that your self-belief is strong and your expectations even higher. A

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12:06

293: The Power Of Enthusiasm, Structure And Vocal...

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/06/06

How good is your Mongolian? Well, I don’t know even one word in Mongolian, but I learnt a powerful lesson about presenting and communicating, when grappling with this language recently. I am a Master Trainer for Dale Carnegie and most of my time is spent working here for Japanese clients. Occasionally, I am asked to work with Dale Carnegie colleagues from other parts of the world, usually in APAC, to help certify their new trainers. This is how I came to be working with ten budding trainers from

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12:44

292: Communicating Your Point Of View

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/05/30

The rule in business is to stay clear of religion and politics, because you risk alienating a chunk of your audience who hold different views to you. That is clear and sensible. What about other points of view (POV) however which are more related to business itself. This could be about government regulatory policy, industry trend predictions, marketing issues, quality control, your purported product benefits or any number of contentious items. When we are giving presentations, should we avoid

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11:35

291: I’m No Good In Front Of Big/Small Groups

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/05/23

I sometimes read about certain celebrities, historical figures or leaders who are described as being better presenters with small groups or being better presenting to large groups. I wonder what they mean and why that would be? I presume the inference is the person is more impactful with one group rather than the other or feels more comfortable addressing one group rather than the other. Why would the size of the group make any difference? Perhaps presenting to a tight circle of listeners makes

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13:22

290: How To Be Effective During Podcast Interviews

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/05/16

We think of our presentations as something we give to an audience physically in the room with us or these days, maybe to an audience trapped in tiny little boxes on the computer screen. Media interviews come up rarely for most business people. This medium requires a very specialised skill set to do it properly. Amateur business leaders up against the pros from the ranks of journalists rarely goes well for the great unwashed. Yet many business people are getting interviewed by podcast hosts who

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13:48

289: Simon Kuper's Excellent Advice to Presenters

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/05/09

I discovered the journalist Simon Kuper, when I started subscribing to the Financial Times newspaper (FT). I have a number of go to columnists in the FT and he is one of them. I like his intelligence, wit and writing style. He recently mentioned his experiences attending conferences after a long break. He outlined some advice for presenters thinking about addressing conference audiences, which I totally agree with. Let’s go through them. Bored Audiences. Simon made the observation that the

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11:35

288: How To Make Your Business Audience The Heroes...

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/05/02

When we are asked to give a business presentation, we may imagine we are the hero, arriving on our white charger, to rescue the audience from their woes. We may come armed to the teeth with research, data, statistics, evidence, testimonials and proof. We have it partially correct. We are definitely there to add value, to make their attendance worth it and to leave some positive residue from the experience. However, we are not the hero, jauntily dispensing wisdom and gold nuggets. We must make

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287: What We Can Learn From Ukraine President...

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/04/25

Until a number of weeks ago, I had only vaguely heard of Volodymyr Zelenskyy. I read he was an actor who played the role of the Ukranian President in a television drama production and then turned that into reality, by winning the election and becoming the leader. I was thinking of a reality TV star like Donald Trump or a B-grade movie actor like Ronald Reagan both becoming the leaders of America and put him in the same basket. In terms of presentation skills, Reagan gave some very good speeches

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286: Overly Glib Speakers Trigger Rejection

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/04/18

It is a tricky balance to be clear, concise, articulate and also plausible. I was thinking about a podcast interview I heard by a titan of industry. He had obviously been trained in how to handle the media, so as soon as he spied the microphone, he went into media interviews 101 mode. Media interviews by their very nature are a fake environment. Those being interviewed are taught to be glib, keep it short, think in sound bite terms, don’t reveal too much or you will get yourself into trouble.

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285: Leading Your Audience Up The Garden Path

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/04/11

I was sitting in the lecture theater, as usual in the front row, so that I could catch everything that was being said. University was a big deal for someone who climbed out of the trench and put the shovel down on a Friday and hit the campus the next Monday. Calling me earnest about my studies doesn’t even get close. On this occasion we had a guest lecturer, who was giving a talk on the battle of Sekigahara, a turning point in Japanese history which would usher in hundreds of years of rule by the

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11:21

284: Don't Be Predictable And Boring When Presenting

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/04/04

I was recently asked to be interviewed by a University senior for a project he was doing on communication in business. I don’t know if I was a good choice. After I left High School, I was working for an insurance company during the day and joined then dropped out of a night course on Communication at the Queensland University of Technology. The “communication” study idea sounded great, but what I found was the course was very theoretical and not what I was expecting. Subsequently, I have become a

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283: What If I am Not Fluent In English As A Presenter

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/03/28

Kata, the way of doing things and Kanpekishugi or perfectionism are wonderful traits in Japan. Everything works well and as expected. Things have an order here and there are certain ways of doing things which will brook no adventurism. Things must also be done properly, no half measures. As a transplanted wild Aussie, I fought against both for many decades. “Why does it have to done this way?”, I would ask my wife, who would just answer, “because that is how it is done”. “Near enough is good

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282: What If I Am A Low Energy Speaker

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/03/21

Being persuasive is a key element to business success. You can argue the rights and wrongs of that statement, but it is the reality. We cannot avoid the fact that being able to present to others and get their agreement is a critical skill which we all need. Now we meet vigorous, go, go, go people and so when they give a presentation, their passion, motivation and power come to the fore. For them, they are not even thinking about being a high impact speaker, this is who they are. For others

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281: Thanking The Speaker

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/03/14

Presentations have a cadence. Notices are sent out to the mailing list or promoted through some form of media. Interested people sign up and attend the event. There is a hosting organisation representative delegated to get proceedings underway. I went into detail on that component last week, so if you have missed it, please go back and listen to that episode #280 on “How To Introduce A Speaker”. When the presentation is over the host organisation has to wrap things up. Usually, in well organised

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280: How To Introduce A Speaker

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/03/07

Today we are going to look at how to introduce a speaker, something which we may not do so often, but still an important facility which we should do well. I am sure we have all seen the MC introduce the speaker. I am also sure we have seen very few do a good job of it. One of the problems is that the MC hasn’t connected this role with their personal and professional brands. They are mumbling and bumbling along. Often they don’t see this role as particularly vital and so do a very offhand

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279: Inspiring People To Embrace Change

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/02/28

Today we are going to look at inspiring people to embrace change. Not grumbling and finally accepting change. Not resisting change, until the bitter end. We are talking about “embracing” change. This is a big task. We may have all done that exercise where we fold our arms across our chest, but with the bottom arm on top this time. It is a simple change, but instinctively we don’t like the change. If we can’t deal with such a simple change, how hard is it going to be to get people to accept big

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278: Motivating Others To Action

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/02/21

Today we are going to look at motivating others to action. Actually, this is a devilishly difficult task. Getting anyone to change what they have been doing and take a new action is extremely complex. We all talk up a storm about this or that should change, but we are not keen about changing ourselves. In fact, we expect everyone else make the necessary changes and we want to stay exactly the same. In our training on the topic of mindset, to underline the power of our habits, we ask people to

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277: The Presenter’s Time, Talent and Treasure

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2022/02/14

So how have your New Year resolutions been unfolding? Change is tough, as is forming new habits by adding in new concepts and at the same time removing old negative habits. Resolve requires consistency, patience, perseverance and application – all of which need extra energy on top of what we are already doing. As presenters we have time, talent and treasure at our disposal to take ourselves up a few rungs on the ladder to success every year, if we can break out of the pull of gravitational forces

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