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Personal Effectiveness Strategic Planning

Win the Budget Tournament

Organizations of all sizes play a similar game every year. Groups of talented, highly motivated men and women invest weeks, if not months, creating plans and budgets for the upcoming year. Then, as a friend of mine describes it, the tournament begins. And, like most competitions, there are winners and losers.

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Communication Development Personal Effectiveness

Make Your Presentations Memorable (Part 2)

Last week I shared the story of my plate spinning illustration to drive home a point of increasing complexity. Today, I want to talk about some less elaborate examples and share a few tips for making props work for your next presentation.

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Communication

4 Tips to Improve Your Next Presentation

Have you been to TED.com yet? If not, you should check it out. Why? There are probably several reasons, but I’d like to focus on the communications model that TED employs. Yes, over the years there have been some duds, but overall, the TED model works extremely well as you think about what creates a compelling presentation. Here are four tips that are certainly transferable to my world and yours.