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A mighty flame arises from a tiny spark. –Dante Alighieri
What spark do you want to bring into the world and what do you expect from it? Is it worth standing up for and giving the idea a real chance?
The Art of Delivering a Speech: Why Reading Alone Won’t Cut It
Delivering a speech is more than just reading words off a page. It’s about making an authentic connection with your audience, leaving a lasting impression, and bringing the words to life with energy and enthusiasm. In this guide, we’ll explore why preparation and effective delivery are crucial to making your speech resonate.
You want to ask for a preliminary consultation?
Do you want to be sure to make a good decision when choosing a coach or trainer? This is why you want to ask for a preliminary consultation.
Without proper attitude, words are just words
Many words, little meaning! The world is full of promises that are not kept. If it bothers us, we could change it. At least for ourselves, we can decide whether we stand by our words or not. How about being more attentive to our own statements?
Narcissism: Protect yourself of flying monkeys, the henchmen of narcissists.
When it comes to narcissism and narcissists, the findings are no pleasure. The name Flying Monkeys also sounds more harmless than the phenomenon is. What is it all about, and how do you protect yourself from flying monkeys?
Setting Boundaries with Toxic People: 10 Essential Strategies
What to do when toxic people cross boundaries? Here are suggestions you can use to set clear boundaries for such contemporaries.
Beware of manipulation: Intentional mirroring in conversations
Intentional mirroring is the deliberate imitation of other people to make them feel good. It serves to promote rapport and can also be used against the interests of the mirrored.
Those who want, misunderstand us
Even if we provide a message with the appropriately deserved chance, it is not always communicated fairly. Then the best techniques and immense preparation help you only to a limited extent. Some hair can be found in every soup (German figure of speech), or conjured into it. What to do?
Being right at all costs. The price we pay for needing to be right.
Persuading without arguments, assertiveness, winning without consideration, knockout by nasty tricks, black magic, manipulating. It is a coveted feeling to be right.
Grounding for presence and confidence in speeches and presentations
Use grounding for presence and a feeling confident in speeches and presentations. More than just a remedy for stage fright.
Worth the Effort: How Investing in Preparation Leads to Unforgettable Presentations
Discover the true value of a well-prepared presentation. Learn how investing in preparation can transform your presentations from average to unforgettable. This guide reveals actionable strategies to captivate your audience, including engaging storytelling, effective use of props, and meticulous practice. Whether you’re delivering a sales pitch, keynote, or boardroom presentation, find out how to make every moment count and leave a lasting impression
Structure for speeches and presentations: Take your audience from hell to heaven.
Do you offer a way to better conditions? It’s about promoting change? Whether products, processes, etc. Do you want to hold a public office?
I call this easy to use and very effective speech structure the “Hell-Heaven-Way”. If the conditions are untenable and there are solutions available, you can also use it outside the church to convince your audience.
Those who seek injustice, just need to open their eyes.
How would it be today to look more closely at how we have something to contribute to more fairness in this world? What reality deserves some support? Where can something be made fairer, friendlier, more beautiful? What stands in the way?
Imagination is the most beautiful daughter of truth, only a little more vivid than its mother. –Carl Spitteler
What reality deserves some support? Where can something be made fairer, friendlier, more beautiful? What stands in the way?
One big mistake we can make is to be constantly afraid of making a mistake.
What helps to deal with an uncertain future: fear, courage or ignorance?
Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance. –Epicurus
Abundance? It is such a cliche, but it is true: money cannot buy happiness. One of the quickest and easiest ways to allow abundance into your life is by deliberately focusing more on gratitude.
Swallow your pride occasionally, it’s non-fattening!
What do you think about the motto of the day? Do you always have to insist that you are right?
Some people have accumulated so many hunches and opinions that there is no more space for learning.
Those who already know everything, don’t want to and will learn nothing more. What exactly is healthy doubt and how can we foster it?
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been. Rainer Maria Rilke
Out with the old, in with the new: may you be happy the whole year through.
A new year is like a blank book, and the pen is in your hands. It is your chance to write a beautiful story for yourself.
Happy New Year.
A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one. –Baltasar Gracián
What do you think about the motto of the day? How about good reasons to know synonyms?
The moral man loves his soul and the ordinary his property. Confucius
What is the value of the soul? Where and how can immaterial values be valued even more today?
Change the world; the world needs it. Bertolt Brecht
What do you want to stand up for?
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. Mark Twain
When most people get up to speak they tend to talk from the moment they are introduced till they sit down. Most speaker ignore that the pauses in their talk can get a lot of attention. How about exploring the power of pauses today?
Humility makes invulnerable. –Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Humbleness or humility is perhaps an under-rated virtue. Why does humility matter?
Glossary
In the glossary, you will find information on common and not-so-common terms related to strategic communication. Communication science, marketing, and psychology complement each other. Where the glossary and article end, the work with me begins. I make sure that you and your message are convincing –in conversations and presentations.
Ask me! If you can not find what you are looking for, send me a message. Maybe I write an article about it.
