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The message from recruitment agencies, employer surveys and the like is familiar, loud and clear: you must be an outstanding communicator if you want to get to the top of your profession. . . 
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Matt Helmke, Director with Zer0 to 5ive provides an overview of key take-aways from author Garr Reynolds' book, Presentation Zen.
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You know the cliché: People are more frightened of public speaking than rabid dogs or even death. Yet your presentation skills are essential to being a success with employees, investors, partners, and customers. What kind of presenter are you? . . .
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Speaking in front of large groups is such a common fear that the world abounds with tips on how to master your nerves and wow an audience. From the old standby of imagining your audience naked to advice to emulate everyone from Steve Jobs to Barack Obama, there's so much advice out there that fresh tips are hard to come by. . .
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There may be signs of improvement in the labor market – but the pressure for job seekers to find an edge is rising. It doesn’t matter if you have a GED or an MBA, human resource experts say more and more people are inflating their resumes to nail . . .
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What’s wrong with corporate job interviews? Pretty much everything! Interviews are the second most used and “flawed” tool in HR (right after performance appraisals). They are used and relied on around the world for hiring, transfers, promotions, and for selecting leaders. After studying and researching interviews for over 40 years, I find it laughable when people think they can become interview experts simply by conducting a few of them.
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What we see has a profound effect on what we do, how we feel, and who we are. Through experience and experimentation, we continually increase our understanding of the visual world and how we are influenced by it. Psychologist Albert Mehrabian demonstrated that 93% of communication is nonverbal. Research at 3M Corporation concluded that we process visuals 60,000 times faster than text. Further studies find that the human brain deciphers image elements simultaneously, while language is decoded in a linear, sequential manner taking more time to process. . .
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Peter Guber, chairman and CEO of the Mandalay Entertainment Group, explains how to establish an emotional connection with any audience through storytelling, a concept also discussed in Bovee & Thill textbooks.
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There are a lot of ways to figure out what's churning in someone's brain -- you just have to know what to look for. Though there aren't any universally dependable signs, a combination of signals may give a person away. But no matter what, there's always room for error. . .
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Over the recent years, I have read dozens of excellent books in which their authors offer advice on how to make effective presentations in one form of another (e.g. in-person, teleconferencing, electronically recorded). None offers more and better advice than . . .
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Whether you’re gearing up for a client presentation, a college lecture, or an awards banquet…and whether it’s your first time or your 100th, you probably feel a little anxiety just before a public speaking engagement. You’re not alone. . .
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With so many different ways to communicate these days, which one is the best one to ensure you stay in the running for a job opportunity? . . .
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