What comes to mind when you think about the personal impact required to step up to a leadership role? How do you acquire it? When do you start? Is it a case of waiting, doing a great job and expecting that to sell you? Or are you developing your personal impact now to be ready
In the first piece of this two-part article I introduced the idea that the attention of both the audience and the speaker are under attack. Even when the opportunity for face to face connection arises, both parties can become distracted. And this can reduce the value of speaking engagements everyone. I suggested that the speaker
Public speaking is a joy. The opportunity to stand in front of a group of people whose faces you can see, whose attention you will have for a few short moments, who are still and silent, who are interested and have come to listen to you. Think of all the things that could happen by
When you step onto a stage to speak, it’s a big deal. Take your most important presentation and ramp it up by 100 and you’ve got a speaking opportunity. Where does this amplification come from? Firstly, there’s the increased numbers in the audience often in their 10s, 100s or even 1000s. Then there’s the focus.
Disruptive ideas can unlock growth. But when an idea is presented disruptively, it can get in the way. At it’s worst, a disruptive presentation style can cause your idea to be rejected for the wrong reasons. How does this happen? When you present, what do you do that could cause this? And how can you
How you can become an impactful and effective presenter? This is something I support my clients to become, supplementing their skills and boosting their confidence when it comes to meetings, pitches, negotiations, speaking and presentations. I’m also the trainer for the IDM and The Association of Association Executives on this subject. Here is my list
How you can be more, without doing much more? How do you position yourself to be recognised for the contribution that you make to the overall organisation? Here is my list of recommended reading on the subject. The titles are chosen because they can support your journey to achieving greater personal and professional impact. Start
Great ideas sell themselves, so the saying goes. You simply enter the pitch with your idea, gently nudge it in the back and it will start talking. But what happens when it refuses to speak? Agencies that rely on this tactic when presenting their work run a real risk that some of their best ideas
When it comes to marketing themselves to clients or the wider world, agencies are not as good at selling themselves as they are at producing the work for their clients. But they can be. By seeing their creative output as the surface and spending more time on what’s beneath, agencies can become as good at
As a design business owner, do you want to develop yourself and your people? What gets in the way that, if you were to change it, would open up amazing opportunities for you, your people and your studio? I was recently shown an interesting piece of research undertaken by an Australian designer Carol Mackay, Co-Founder