Treści, dzięki którym będziesz lepiej działać
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Who’s in charge here? Your pitch and status game
Pitching any kind of idea or deal involves playing a complex and tricky status game. It’s all about the social dynamics. If you do not gain high status, your voice will not be heard in business environment. It does not matter how well you argue. How your slides look. You…
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Tell me something I do not know
Food, we all need it… That was initially the first (opening) sentence of one startup pitch. The sentence I immediately told them to abandon. Not because it is true. Not because it was irrelevant – on the contrary, their idea was focused on food indeed (more precisely on food logistics…
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How To Overcome The Fear of Public Speaking
Try not to be so nervous. That is what people advise others who dread public speaking. That is also probably the least useful piece of advice they actually should give. There are a lot of science backed things you can do to overcome the fear of public speaking. But common…
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Introverts Do It Better
Another public speaking and pitching ideas workshop is about to start. One week before I had given the small but very disciplined and creative group an assignment. Prepare a short presentation on any given subject. I also gave them some random universal topics to choose from, in case someone felt…
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Czy mogę mieć w ręku kartkę? To zależy…
Podczas szkolenia z autoprezentacji, organizowanego prze Fashion PR talks, jedna z uczestniczek wychodzi na środek, by prezentować przygotowany wcześniej fragment. Zanim zacznie pyta mnie jeszcze – czy mogę trzymać w ręku kartkę? Trochę zdziwiony, odpowiadam – oczywiście, że możesz, jeśli dzięki temu będziesz się czuła lepiej i bezpieczniej. Najważniejsze jest…
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Powiedz mi coś, czego nie wiem
Powiedz mi coś, czego nie wiem. Proszę. Dodatkowo niech to będzie coś, co mnie zaintryguje na tyle, żeby mi się chciało słuchać przez 3 minuty. Żebym poświęcił swoje zasoby poznawcze, uwagę i pamięć krótkotrwałą. Powiedz mi coś takiego, a od razu są większe szanse na to, że się zakocham. Tylko…
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Four Talk Styles to Avoid When Crafting a Presentation or a Pitch
Crafting a great talk is hard work for everyone. When people assume talking just comes to me naturally and I have a 'gift’, I say 'thank you’ and state the truth: it’s all hard work and preparation. Just like you would not wake up one day and decide: 'how about…
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Some things to consider when crafting a pitch
When you’re creating a startup pitch there are two sides of the story you need to consider. From an investor’s point of view, you must remember that they are… well you guessed it: they are investors.
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Words Matter! We’ve been wrong about one research!
Words matter. Especially when your job is to name a hurricane. Imagine you are a meteorologist, and you are about to call the storm that is about to hit Ease Coast. And it’s going to hit it hard. Would you name it Horace or Harriet? Think carefully, as your choice…
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5 Sentences I Like
Whenever I work on a talk, speech, pitch or any sort of keynote, I strive to come up with the killer first sentence. In the spirit of the remix culture, I often seek inspiration in culture, literature and… the news. A good first sentence must be simple, should be processed with cognitive…
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Pay Attention! Posner model of attention explained!
We would die paying attention to everything. Yet we risk everything not paying attention to some of that everything. How to determine what matters most? Well, leave it to a brain. It knows well. Or at least should know. After all it has been capable of saving your ass throughout…
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Your Pitch, Q&A and Improvisation Theatre
With your pitch you communicate the value proposition you and your startup have crafted so well. It’s polished, well scripted. You pause where you want to add some drama. You rely on storytelling to set up the stage and direct attention with the virtuoso dynamics of your voice. You are…