Answer questions, Reporter Q&A

How to Answer Questions From a Reporter Without Messing Up

Once you’ve mentioned your key messages during an interview with a reporter, are you prepared to answer the questions that are sure to be asked? The Q&A can be the most important part of the interview. If you blow an answer – or blow off the reporter – all your media training and hard work

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Turn Off That Cell Phone! Business Etiquette Still Counts

You’ve heard it too many times: the distracting, irritating, cell phone that rings or vibrates during the middle of a business presentation. Smart phones and cell phones are wrecking havoc with business etiquette and manners. Their indiscriminate use is hurting business, and it could be your business if you’re not careful.

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The Imposer Syndrome

Do You Lack Self-Confidence and Feel Like an Imposter?

We often meet with executives who want training because they feel they’re not polished presenters. Or, they don’t believe they’re skilled enough in media interviews. But after talking with them, we learn that what’s really going on is that they’re lacking in self-confidence. The Imposter Syndrome If you often feel like a fraud, then you’re

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Your Presentation Begins When You Book the Date

The preparation for any successful meeting or presentation starts the moment the date gets marked on the calendar. That’s when the real work begins. Determine Your Goal First, establish your goal for the presentation. What are you trying to achieve? You are most likely making a presentation to persuade your audience to take some sort

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Don’t Faint When You Flub a Presentation – Laugh at Yourself

No doubt presentation training will help you to improve your delivery when you’re in front of an audience. But you’re only human, so sometimes things can go wrong – very wrong. If that ever happens, laughing at yourself can be the best medicine. Turn Off Your Microphone Unless you’re made of stone, you will be

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Was That Me You Just Introduced?

If you’ve ever attended a conference, you’ve probably witnessed a keynoter being upstaged by his introducer who goes on…and on…and on. But nobody is squirming more uncomfortably than the speaker, who is listening to the equivalent of his premature obituary. Approve Your Introduction Speakers devote great attention to their keynote speeches or acceptance remarks —

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"Is your elevator speech ready?"

Delivering a Winning Presentation – in an Elevator

We all know what an “elevator speech” is, right? It is the common expression for your personal business presentation when meeting someone for the first time. In reality, you wouldn’t corner someone in an elevator with your pitch. Or would you? It depends on the circumstances. I seized the moment with the new CEO of

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"Lie and grow a Pinnochio nose"

Is it OK to Tell a Little White Lie?

How often have you heard that a presentation, or a media interview, is no more than story telling? And that’s true. As a speaker, you’d grab your audience with an opening such as “Imagine that you are about to find a cure for cancer.” That is sure to get everyone’s attention. But then if you

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Power Words

Use “Power Words” in Presentations and Media Interviews

When speakers at a conference and commentators on television begin a sentence with “I think” or “I hope,” it detracts from their expertise. Those are not power words. Even well-known experts often start a sentence with tentative phrases. You aren’t invited to speak at a conference or appear on national television for what you think.

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How to Get Your Audience Begging for More

You stand there stunned. The audience is on its feet begging for more at the end of your presentation. There is wild applause. People are rushing up to congratulate you. Then you wake up from the dream. Could this have actually happened after your last presentation? Yes, if you had injected your talk with energy

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