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Speaking with confidence

Positive visualisation  increases your likelihood of delivering a really effective and exceptional presentation......

Read this and 80 other helpful tips on how to Speak with Confidence - in this new advice booklet by Veronica Broomes.

Cost: £8.50

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Also available: 77 key tips for Public Speaking

Read what others say about 77 Key Tips for Public Speaking

"77 Key Tips for Public Speaking is a great guide for quickly improving your public speaking".  

Tony Zemaitis, MD, Tony Zemaitis Associates Ltd

"In my role as Local Business Liaison Manager, I often undertake public speaking. I found Veronica's '77 Key Tips' to be a useful and easy reference guide for any type of presentation".  

Gay Harrington, Canary Wharf Group plc

I always think the success of anything written is if it helps the reader make an instant improvement to what they do, and your 77 tips are written in a way that will help make that happen. Yes, very impressed.

Andy Bounds, Andy Bounds Ltd

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77 Key Tips for Public Speaking

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PowerPoint Training

Contact Executive Solutions to find out more about training for effect use of PowerPoint slides in your presentation.

Do not let yourself be categorised as delivering PowerPointless presentations, as described by Martin Waller in The Times Online article PowerPointless. You can read the comment on the article from our Principal Trainer, Veronica Broomes

Contact us to find out how you can ensure you never make a PowerPointless presentation.

Learn how to skillfully use PowerPoint as a visual aid to enhance your presentation and raise your professional image -avoid it use as a distraction and irritant.

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Tips and Techniques for Effective Communication:
Public Speaking Myths and Facts

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Introducing the Speaker

When you are introducing the speaker you are making a speech (one or two minutes), therefore it must be organised (clear opening, body, conclusion.

• Make your introduction thoughtful and HELPFUL for the speaker. State why the speaker is the best person for the audience to be listening to on the topic to be spoken about.
   
• Establish the mutual interest of the audience and Speaker.
   
• OPENING – grab attention, reiterate importance of the topic.
   
• BODY – why subject, this Speaker, to this audience, at this time.
   
• CONCLUSION – Present the Speaker to the audience.
  
• Set the mood of the audience –PREPARE audience for Speaker!

KISS -Keep it Short and Simple!

Introduce the Speaker, NOT deliver the Speaker’s topic.

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And what should the Speaker do?

Read SpeakerNetNews to find out what Speakers could do when they are being introduced.

http://www.speakernetnews.com/post/introwait.html

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FREE TELESEMINARS

Sign up for one of our FREE Teleseminars choosing from the following topics:

• Basic Presentation and Public Speaking Techniques.
• Choosing Visual Aids for your Presentations.
• Preparing PowerPoint slides.

Email your request to mail to seminars@executive-solutions.co.uk and details about dates, times and online seminar room will be sent directly to you.

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Using visual aids -as tools, not distractions

If your visual aids irritate, confuse or bore your audience, you won’t succeed in giving a stunning presentation, even one that gets you a standing ovation. The most common visual aid used by many is Microsoft PowerPoint. In the right hands this can take an average presentation up several gears and make it truly memorable. If you get it wrong – it can turn your audience right off!

Book here for our one-day interactive training workshop or one-to-one training, done face-to-face or over the telephone.

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Quotable Quotes

MOTIVATIONAL/ TEAMWORK

• An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. Stephen Covey

• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato

• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha

• Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Most people see difficulties in every opportunity – I like to see opportunities in every difficulty! Winston Churchill

• Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.  Robert Louis Stevenson

• Don't accept that others know you better than yourself.  Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.  James Allen

• A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.  Anonymous

• We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.  Jim Rohn

• Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.  John Wooden

• Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. 

Tryon Edwards

SUCCESS

• I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby

• If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

• If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counsellor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.  Joseph Addison

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.   Henry David Thoreau

• I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot . . . and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why . . . I succeed.  Michael Jordan

• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.  Epictetus

• Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it.   Anonymous

• Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. 

H Jackson Browne

HAPPINESS

• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. The Dali Lama

• Happy is the man who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for the future.   A Gibson

• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mohandas K Gandhi

• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. 

Albert Schweitzer

• Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D Roosevelt

• Happiness is like a butterfly, which, when you pursue it is always beyond your grasp, but, which, when you sit down may alight upon you.  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.  Pearl S Buck

• Between stimulus and response is a space. In this space lies our freedom to choose our response. In these choices lie our growth and our happiness.  Stephen Covey

• The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself. Publilius Syrus

ATTITUDE

• If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right. 

George Bernard Shaw

• Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

• If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. Betty Reese

• If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.  Denis Waitley

• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius

• Do-so is more important than say-so. Pete Seeger

• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain

• Most people see difficulties in every opportunity – I like to see opportunities in every difficulty!  Winston Churchill

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• Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember-the only taste of success some people have when they take a bite out of you. Zig Ziglar

• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F Kennedy

• Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. Charles Swindoll

• Attitude, not aptitude determines altitude.  Anonymous

(in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations, also attributed to Jesse Louis Jackson )

• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity. G K Chesterton

• The only disability in life is a bad attitude. Scott Hamilton

• The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. John Milton

TOMORROW

• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. Babatunde Olatunji

• Instead of living in the shadows of yesterday, walk in the light of today and the hope of tomorrow.  Kay Arthur

•  An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. Charles Franklin Kettering

•  The secret of success is constancy to purpose.  Benjamin Disraeli

CONFIDENCE

• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I've lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do.  

Eleanor Roosevelt

• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.  Mark Twain

• Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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