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How to Handle Interruptions and Distractions
You think you're on schedule. And you would be... if it weren't for interruptions and distractions Let's look at how to handle being interrupted.
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Supporting Your Team Under Pressure: Return to High-Performance
When you have a team under pressure, what can you do to support them and return them to a high-performance state?
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The Creative Process: Developing, Writing, and Producing an Advert
Developing, Writing, and Producing an Advertisement involves a large creative team of creative thinkers, copywriters, designers, producers, editors, and many more. What are the main steps in the creative process?
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Open Your Presentation: How to Hook your Audience with a Great Start
Open your presentation with a powerful introduction to hook your audience. I’ll start you off with the structure that many business writers, journalists, and authors use time after time. Get our Presentation Skills Toolkit, which...
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Self Regulation: What is it and How to Build It?
The second domain of Emotional Intelligence is Self Regulation. This is about managing your emotional state and the behavioral and social choices you make. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to this course: Emotional Intelligence: A...
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Cognitive Reappraisal: How to Control Negative Thoughts
Wouldn’t it be great if you could replace negative thoughts with alternatives that are both positive and true? Well, this is called Cognitive Reappraisal, and there are techniques to help you. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to this...
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Managing Audience Questions in Your Presentation [inc the Tough Ones!]
What do business presenters fear more than presenting itself? Usually, it’s those tricky – or even hostile-seeming – questions from the audience. So, let’s see how you can handle them confidently and effectively. Get our Presentation...
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First Impression - Appearance: How to Look the Part
We form a first impression of someone within a few seconds of meeting them. It's vital that you know how to create the right first impression for you. And the first thing that people notice is your appearance. So, you need to look the...
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Power of Silence: Transform Your Gravitas
Silence is a gift. It allows the other person to be heard. But the real power of silence is in how other people perceive it... as confidence and insight. The person in a meeting who is most comfortable with silence will be able to...
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Chairing Meetings - How to Deal with Challenging Participants
When you are chairing meetings there is always the chance you'll have a difficult participant. And this can ruin your day and, worse, waste the time of other attendees. So, in this lesson, I'll show you how to handle challenging...
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Failure of Multitasking: The Multitasking Myth
Multitasking is doing more than one thing at a time. Multitasking is a poor choice at best, and a disastrous one at worst. In this video, we look at three things: 1. What multitasking is 2. Why it doesn't work well 3. If you must...
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What is Seth Godin's Permission Marketing? And How to Build Your Campaign
Permission Marketing has reached early adulthood. Born in 1999, it is a vibrantly fit and energetic part of the marketer’s toolset. We see it everyday, and think nothing of the revolutionary change it has created.
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Rhetoric: The Golden Key to Verbal Persuasion
People have been persuading one another with their speech for as long as we have records. In many different cultures, aspiring lawyers, administrators, and politicians would have learned the science of rhetoric, of using language...
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Advanced Platform Skills: Master-level Presentation Tips
This is the second of two videos on the platform skills that will make your presentation come across great. In the last one, we looked at the basics that will make you a great presenter. But, in this one, let’s focus on some of the...
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Presence, Charisma, Gravitas: What's the Difference?
Presence, Charisma, Gravitas: What's the Difference? There are three forms of powerful personal impact and all of them carry high levels of confidence. These are: Presence, Charisma, and Gravitas. But what are they and what are the...
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Mental Presence - Being there, mentally
Presence is that state where people cannot help but notice you are there - in a good way. And one half of the key to this is Mental Presence. Being there, mentally.
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Physical Presence - Creating the Impression you are Completely Present
Presence is that state where people cannot help but notice you are there - in a good way. And one half of the key to this is Physical Presence. Creating the Impression you are Completely Present.
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Attending Meetings - Project Presence and Authority
When you attend a meeting, it's a chance to impress in the right way. And to do that you need to project presence and authority. In this video I will give you tips on how to do that.
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Using a Projector and Slides Effectively
When you attend a meeting, you may need to make a presentation using a projector and slides. Everyone knows how to use a projector. But using and projector and slides well is another thing. In this video, I'll show you how. In fact, I...
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Chairing Meetings - How to Facilitate with Authority
When you are chairing meetings, you need to stamp your authority on the meeting... without being authoritarian. So this video gives you my top tips for how to facilitate with authority.
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Abraham Maslow and the Hierarchy of Needs - Content Model of Motivation
Abraham Maslow' Hierarchy of Needs is possibly the best known model of motivation. As a motivation theory, the hierarchy of needs is useful, but probably over-used.
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Wellbeing A-Z -Nanny
we find out what it’s like to be a Nanny to someone else’s children;
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AIDA Copywriting Formula
Learn the AIDA Copywriting Formula and understand how to create persuasive content that captures attention, ignites interest, builds desire, and drives action. Master this proven formula to craft captivating messages and achieve the...