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Book review: 101 Ways to Captivate a Business Audience

by Sue Gaulke
There's nothing worse than sitting in the audience while an inept speaker stumbles through an ill-conceived business presentation-- unless, of course, you're the one floundering in the spotlight. In 101 Ways to Captivate a Business Audience, Sue Gaulke, founder of the Speaker's Training Camp, strips the mysteries from the process by showing how to prepare and present an effective address that will successfully involve your audience and deliver your message. (more …)
Buy it from Amazon or request it for free if you are a Pivotal Gold member
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Gingerbread Friends – book review, lesson plans, printable, recipe

That popular little character, Gingerbread baby, is back. Gingerbread baby needs some friends but can he make them? Can he talk to them? Where do you find friends for gingerbread babies? This is an adventure he’ll never forget.

Read more details, along with lesson plans, classroom helpers, a recipe for gingerbread and instructions for a Christmas gingerbread garland and a printable

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Video – Authors@Google: Garr Reynolds

Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the net -- presentationzen.com -- shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote.

Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today's world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.

attitude

"Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it."

Ellen Glasgow

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The Election Night Speech

Check out Bert Decker's analysis of Barak Obama's speech
http://www.bertdecker.com/experience/2008/11/transformational-election---and-speech.html

Relive the speech here
http://www.consultpivotal.com/barak.htm

dark and light

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

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Pride and Prejudice

  

 

 by Jane Austen"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye.

And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree.

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e-manual for new authors presenting in primary schools

In partnership with CAL (Copyright Agency Ltd), e:lit (the new name of the Primary English Teaching Association) has developed an e-manual for new authors who would like to present talks and workshops in primary schools.
The manual is based on the information and ideas presented in a 3 day training course trialled with a dozen authors in Sydney earlier in 2008.

What's in it?

The manual is divided into three sections:

  • About primary schools includes information on the curriculum and text types taught in schools, literary events and duty of care.
  • About being a presenter covers various types of presentations including online author talks and workshops, using props and examples of  workshops for students and teachers.
  • About the business of visiting schools includes information on fees and charges, promoting yourself to schools and other resources to check out.

Accessing the e-manual

The e-manual consists of 61 pages packed with information and ideas. It can be accessed in the Special Projects section of the e:lit website. 

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How to say More Than Words

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The study of vocalics or paralanguage deals with the non-verbal qualities of speech. These qualities include pitch, amplitude, rate, and voice quality. Linguists argue that the way in which a person says something often means more than the actual words being spoken. Paralanguage instantaneously conveys information such as gender, education, origin, mood, and our relationship with the person being spoken to.(... more)

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prioritise

"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."
-- Lee Iacocca

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