life skills – Page 2 – The Virtual Presenter

Be afraid. Be very afraid. At least a little afraid.

Do you know who often delivers the most lackluster webinar presentations? Senior management. Especially sales management. Why? They’re comfortable in their shoes. They’re used to speaking in front of people. They’re confident they can ‘pull off the room.’ So they

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Virtual meeting IQ: Q&A

TheVP
posted on September 22, 2009December 1, 2011
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The great news is that Effective Virtual Meetings: Seven Ways to Boost Your Virtual Meeting IQ is that it was interactive and there were a ton of questions. The bad news is that when there’s 500 people in the audience, you can’t get to them all. Following is one that came in that I didn’t

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Learning from each other

TheVP
posted on January 13, 2009December 1, 2011
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You’re a presenter, trainer, marketer, sales person. You know stuff. And it’s likely that you from time to time you need to remind yourself how much you know that is of value to others. I’m inspired today by a nice note I got from a training manager at Nationwide (we should

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“Meet now” – the legacy and the lesson

TheVP
posted on January 12, 2009December 1, 2011
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This post is at once a history lesson, a cultural observation, and a practical. (Of course, if you hate stories as part of learning, you’ll hate me as a teacher and can save some time by changing the channel now 🙂 Let me help with something random.) First, the history lesson. Many web

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Business card dos and don’ts

I found this tasty tidbit in a press release. When DO you hand someone a business card? Do not give your card within the first few seconds of meeting someone. Do wait until they ask you for it. Your job is to pour out so much value during the conversation that they will beg you