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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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10:53

217: How Much Should You Brag About Yourself When...

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/12/21

Bruce Springsteen’s song Glory Days lyric, “Boring stories of Glory days yeah, they’ll pass you by” pops into my head sometimes, when I hear a speaker reminiscing about their glorious past. I was sitting there at a chamber function when the speaker began to talk at length about his start in sales and his experiences. It was fascinating for him no doubt, but it made him sound dated. He seemed to have become covered in dusty cobwebs too all of a sudden. Talking about ourselves is great and

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13:53

216: Facilitation Skills For Presenters

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/12/14

In the public arena most presentations follow a set formula. I speak, I stop, you ask me questions and then I finish up and leave the venue. Inside of companies though, there will be different types of presentations. We may be creating a new project, getting the team members together and taking them through what we need to do. It might be a report on the progress of the section, where we are with revenues and clients etc. In some cases, we will be leading a discussion on where we go from here or

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11:21

215: What Is Enjoyable About Public Speaking?

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/12/07

For many people it may seem we are getting into oxymoron territory here. “Public speaking…enjoyable? You must be kidding mate”. Many are called upon to speak and reluctantly they give their talk without talent, enthusiasm or particular motivation. A duty, an unavoidable pain, like going back to the dentist for that root canal. As we rise in our careers, the necessity to speak in public goes right up in frequency and length. Unfortunately, no one tells you this is what is on the cards for future

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214: Simutaneously Dealing With All Four Audience...

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/11/30

Experts, pseudo experts, amateurs, believers, sceptics, supporters, enemies make up that sea of faces in front of us when we get up to speak. We can get some basic data from the organisers about who is in the room. What industries, companies, gender, age configurations are arrayed in those venue seats. What we can’t tell are the information assimilation biases of our audience members. This means we have to plan for a spread of reactions to what we are going to say. By plan, factor that into the

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15:41

213: You Need More Kiai In Your Presentation Delivery

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/11/23

In our High Impact Presentations (HIP) course, we do a number of presentations over two days of training. What I love about teaching this programme is that you see the results immediately. If we are teaching leadership or sales, it is very hard to see immediate results and those programmes are multi-week efforts. Day One we have the first presentation which forms the marker for the programme. I challenge everyone to give me their very best, knock it out of the park, most spectacular presentation

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10:47

212: Should You Distribute Materials Before Your Speech

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/11/16

Sometimes the organisers of the presentation event ask us if they can distribute our slides before the speech. They are thinking that this will help the audience to follow what we are saying. Especially in Japan, audience members are probably better at reading than hearing the content. So having the slides at hand to refer to during the talk makes a lot of sense. Never do this! Ignore the supposed sage advice of event organisers, who themselves rarely if ever give public presentations. There

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11:26

211: "Many people say" and Other Strategies For...

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/11/09

Donald Trump has made this technique of “many people say….” famous for dealing with opposing views. This is not an exercise for or against Trump. Rather, it is just looking at different ways we can head off opposition to what we are saying. We should have a point of view when we speak and therefore we should also be prepared for opposing points of view. Getting to the Q&A to deal with pushback is okay, but it is better to deal with it inside your presentation. Most of us are one dimensional

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13:08

210: Getting Objective Useful Feedback On Your...

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/11/02

“How was it?” is a pretty lousy survey question a presenter may ask of acquaintances, friends or their staff immediately after speaking. Unless they are your sworn enemy or a sadist, they are not going to tell you what they really think if you stink, because of the relationship you have with them. We need to make sure we are growing and improving as presenters, so objective feedback is crucial to achieving that aim. How can we grab ourselves some of that good oil? I always talk about the

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11:52

209: How To Sell Your Presentation To Pull An Audience

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/10/26

Whether we asking to give a talk or asked to present, we need an audience. The onus is on the meeting hosts to take care of the logistics of the venue and the associated tech needed to carry out the presentation. We cannot leave everything to them though, because our personal brand is tied up with the success of the event. Now “success” can be defined in many ways, but having a venue space for fifty people and having five people turn up, wouldn’t strike too many people as a triumph. This would be

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208: Outlining Your Talk Using The Balloon...

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/10/19

A request came to me recently asking me to speak to an audience. So my first question was, “what would you like me to speak about?”. The answer was fairly broad. Actually, that is good and bad. Good, because there is plenty of scope to tackle various subjects, but bad because it is rather vague and obtuse. Where to start? I absolutely won’t be searching for previous slide decks on related subjects or thinking about the slides I could create on the subject. In this regard, I am in the

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207: As A Presenter What You Can Learn From Trump

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/10/12

This recent debate is a hot button topic. Let me set the record straight, I am an Australian living in Tokyo, so I have no dog in this American presidential brawl. I am approaching this topic from the point of view of what we would do, if we were under attack in public, rather than to rule on the rights and wrongs of politicians’ strategies. Imagine it was you up on that stage getting hammered, what would you do? As a presenter, it is unlikely you will ever face a Trump when you are speaking to a

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206: Where Do Presentations Go Off The Rails?

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/10/05

You see it. The presenter publicly self-immolates. They might butcher the start, get lost in the weeds of their content or be put to the sword at the end in the Q&A. They can’t engage with their audience, are incoherent and quivering the whole time. It is a train wreck on display. Reputations and credibility are flayed alive. Here is the irony – they chose it to be like this. They made a series of poor decisions about this presentation and then reaped the whirlwind of total humiliation.

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205: Lessons From The Virtual World For Presenters

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/09/28

It was a strange feeling. I was back in the Super Safe Classroom after 7 months of teaching solely LIVE On Line. In the online world, we are engaging our audience every two minutes. Remember, this is the Age of Distraction. Audiences are weaponised at home with unseen devices to escape from our grasp and our message. They will be multi-tasking like demons on speed, given the slightest pretext. We have to be very, very focused on keeping them engaged. Teaching live in the room, I had to suppress

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204: Being Clear And Being Hopeful

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/09/21

Speaking is easy, so being clear should be easy too. Well that sounds good in theory, but there is more hope in play here, than actual technique going on. Imagining that your usual conversation style is sufficient for presentations is another exercise in hopeful thinking. Wait a minute, people say that we should speak in a conversational style, so isn’t this confusing or contradictory? What is meant by “conversational” is that the feeling should be relaxed, familiar and inclusive rather than

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15:46

203: Seven Tips From The Front Lines Of Presenting

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/09/14

I have the opportunity to give a number of presentations each year. I video them as well, so I can study where I can improve them further. What I find very interesting though, is that I am a poor model in some ways for others, who don’t have that chance to present publically so often. I was teaching some presentation skills classes recently and the students are probably a better fit for most people as a model. They are in the class because they need to become more persuasive and more

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13:47

202: How To Become A Much Clearer And Better Regarded...

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/09/07

Waffle. This is the enemy of speakers and presenters. Ums and Ahs are obvious fillers. We all recognise them when we hear them and we know we have to do a better job to eliminate them. The more insidious waffle sneaks into our talks wholly uninvited and assassin like. The impact on the audience is immediate. They are lunging for phones to escape from you to a better place. Waffle camouflages our key message. It hides it like those fleshy vines you see in documentaries, which have engulfed and

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10:37

201: Energy Makes Such A Difference In The Online...

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/08/31

Trapped in a small screen in the corner of the monitor has become everyone’s reality when we have group meetings. I have been holding training sessions online now since March, as well as participating in numerous public webinars. There are some things that clearly don’t work, but here we are about to go into fall and no one seems to be making any significant changes, to up their online game. It is not for a lack of insights. I have been writing about these issues for months, as I am sure have

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200: Business Presentations Are Not Boring, But You...

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/08/24

We have all grown up in business watching internal presentations at our firms. It might be a big announcement, a town hall, a shareholder’s meeting or just a weekly meeting. Then we have those cases where we go outside the company and present to clients, industry groups, Chambers of Commerce etc. The sad thing is that rarely are any of these presenters any good. How can that be? None of the things I have mentioned are new items. These types of presentations have been given, in one form or

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199: Why Your Posture Is Important When Presenting

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/08/17

“Don’t round your back”, “Stand up straight”, “Pull your shoulders back”, are common parental commands when we were growing up. Kids do tend to have rounded shoulders and don’t stand up straight, but so what? Why are parents worried about their kids deciding to have a rounded rather than straight posture? The concerns relate to health based on a straighter posture allows better breathing to take place and better aligns the spine. The concerns also relate to public perception. A confident person

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198: Stand And Deliver When Presenting Online

The Presentations Japan Series ·

2020/08/10

We have all migrated back to our homes, waiting for the great pandemic to subside, so that when the coast is clear we can scuttle back to the office in safety. Or maybe, we have concluded that we don't need to be at the office as much anymore or at all. The end result is that we have been relegated to a low tech environment, with almost zero tech support. If we were presenting in a meeting room, we would have the crowd right there in front of us. Perfect communication conditions, where we can

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