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Presentations skills, psychology and marketing to present yourself and your message
Why do narcissists lie so blatantly?
Why do narcissists lie so blatantly and so often?
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.
What may cost the preparation of a presentation, which effort is justified?
Often, a lot can be achieved with a convincing presentation and investments are worthwhile. But how much should the investment actually be?
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?
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Respect is an important value. And the courage to speak up is also one. Sometimes people don’t speak up because it interferes with the respect they want to convey someone else. What is more appropriate and what is inappropriate respect?
Good mood is free and confuses the opponent!
Where and when do you want to stay in a good psychic attitude in the future, where otherwise your personal calmness is easily lost?
A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Do you have something to aim at?
The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
For which concern do you want courage and determination? What would you do if you got the guarantee that it will succeed? What does it deserve to be supported by you?
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. ﹣Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
How do you ensure that important messages are clearly expressed? A message gets stronger when it is infused with clarity and conviction. How can we achieve this?
What causes the fear of public speaking?
When you know the causes of your speaking anxiety, it can be more easily resolved. Here are common causes of speaking anxiety.
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.
