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I trust you had a great break, and are now getting back into the swing of things.
As always, our final Tip of the year is the Christmas Quiz.
We all know it.
But do you realise just how powerful habits are?
Quick recap – they were: Think like a host, not a guest; Know your opening; Be interested; Prepare great questions; Ask “tell me more?”; Prepare your elevator pitch; and Tell stories.
What to talk about? How long for? How to politely end your chat, without resorting to “I really need the toilet”…
Artificial intelligence is no longer the stuff of science fiction. It’s here, and it’s revolutionising every industry.
They get loads of emails; Are time poor; and More readers = fewer responses.
So, we always want to make a good first impression.
A common phrase we often hear from people when they are preparing for a big speech or a meeting is ‘I’m not a natural presenter’.
So we might send an email which we believe to be glorious in all its detail. But our readers might think ‘this is boring and long. Why are you telling me all this?’
Do this Tip.
It’ll take you two minutes.
It could save you two hours.
Do you have fun at work?
That’s a question that comes up frequently during sessions on virtual body language and impact. It’s no surprise that people are striving to get it right: 75% of all business meetings are expected to occur through videoconferencing by 2024.
17 years ago, I took my son on his first aeroplane flight. He was five.
Too long; Too irrelevant; and Too dull.
So, here’s how to ensure your next one is epic! It’s as easy as ABCDE…
Too many emails, meetings, updates, FYIs, and so on.
In exactly the same way… when you start a meeting…
… but, when selling yourself, it’s hard to get the right level of control.
… I thought we should start this week’s Tip with a quick quiz. You have ten seconds to answer all five questions:
Let’s put this a different way: How would you feel if you were asked to stand up and present something to your colleagues or clients right now?
Businesses are increasingly recognising the importance of storytelling as a strategic tool for effective communication and customer engagement.
Answer these questions as quickly as you can. The only rule is that your first two words must be “no because”.
We all have lots of priorities that compete for our time – home-life; work-life; time with the family, friends, bosses, colleagues, customers, potential customers. And then there’s: hitting targets; achieving goals; impressing the right people; daily admin; planning ahead; following-up…
(So, you might not use it for regular updates. But you will when you’re meeting customers, bosses, potential partners, etc)
Or is it more ‘Today won’t be great. Other people control what I do with my time. They control whether I’ll be successful; whether I’ll have fun’.
Last week’s Tip was very popular! I explained how to change your email subject lines, so your contact opened them more quickly.
Do you, um, have a problem with, like, you know, filler words when you’re speaking?
Your email subject line is your email’s first impression.
So it must be good.
Want someone to do something? But not sure they’ll agree to it? If so, here’s a super-fast, super-effective way to prepare your Influencing Communication.
How we say words can have a big impact on the message taken by the person who is listening, says Jennifer Bartram. We use the sound of our voice to show all sorts of emotions, from excitement to anger, frustration to happiness. The choices we make in how we use those sounds help us to convey those feelings by giving meaning to words.
I’ve written many times about the pressure of workload, how that’s affecting GPs and some of the tactics they can use to address the problems that a heavy workload is creating for them.
We’ve come through year end for the Primary Care Networks, and for many of them, this is a time for looking forward.
Anyone who has followed health policy in England over time will recognise the cycle of rhetoric about prevention. We see announcements of revolutionary approaches and then mostly inaction, punctuated by minor announcements, all for the cycle to start again.
Presentations need a good start - when your audience loves you immediately, they'll probably keep loving you.
In January this year, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, delivered a speech to Bloomberg that was partly generated by artificial intelligence, or AI.
Here’s our second Tip on how to build your confidence when presenting.
I’ve had lots of requests for a Tip on how to build confidence when making presentations. So I’m doing two Tips on it.
I have five favourite ways to build my confidence when presenting. Here are my first three…
Proposals, Business Cases, Fee Quotes…
… call them what you like - but they tend to be one of two horrible things: