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What is a Powerful and Persuasive Presentation?

What is a Powerful and Persuasive Presentation?

Think about the great presenters you have seen, or you’ve heard about from history. What do they have in common? What was it about them or their presentations that caused you to go, “Wow, that was great”? I’ve made a study of great speakers and presentations, and I believe that a powerful, persuasive presentation can be defined very simply. A powerful and persuasive presentation moves the audience to take action...
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No One’s a Born Speaker — But Speaking is Natural

No One’s a Born Speaker — But Speaking is Natural

Back in 1989, I was in Los Angeles, California, getting ready to speak in front of a thousand people at a sales training seminar. My job was to do a three-minute introduction for the main speaker of the day. I’d been the National Sales Manager for the seminar sales training company for a couple of years, and I was pretty comfortable doing presentations before groups of five to fifty people. But a thousand? That was...
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