From Pivotal Families
Do you ever wish that you could be young again like your teenage son or daughter? They are full of energy and life! But all too often they are also full of sleepiness.
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It may have taken you days or weeks to prepare for your presentation, and it all could be ruined in an instant because of your nerves. Learn the following 7 simple techniques, and you'll defeat your public-speaking nerves for good and become the most confident person in the room.
As speakers, trainers, and consultants, you may come across spokesperson opportunities many times a year but fail to recognize them. They slip away — perhaps going to someone else who’s more astute about picking up the cues. Don’t let the next lucrative possibility pass you by.
The session is rich with specific examples of what has worked and techniques to avoid. This is not about cold calling PR firms, but rather how to precisely position yourself so the client feels you “get it” and can’t live without you.
You will learn how to:
. capitalize on the opportunities by understanding what your role is and what you can do to close the deal
. articulate your established market and who else (what organization) needs to reach them
expand way beyond the obvious
. bridge the gap from the client’s brand to how your ideas, products or core messages solves a problem for their market
. package your idea and make adapting your concepts easy for the client to understand and buy
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AN amazing list relevant to "every teacher no matter what grade level or subject".
It includes tools for file sharing, photo and video editing, networking and software just to list a few.
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A Sports for the Mind class. Instead of grades, students receive report cards with levels of expertise like ‘‘novice’’ and ‘‘master.’’
One morning last winter I watched a middle-school teacher named Al Doyle give a lesson, though not your typical lesson. This was New York City, a noncharter public school in an old building on a nondescript street near Gramercy Park, inside an ordinary room that looked a lot like all the other rooms around it, with fluorescent lights and linoleum floors and steam-driven radiators that hissed and clanked endlessly.
Doyle was, at 54, a veteran teacher and had logged 32 years in schools all over Manhattan, where he primarily taught art and computer graphics. In the school, which was called Quest to Learn, he was teaching a class, Sports for the Mind, which every student attended three times a week. It was described in a jargony flourish on the school’s Web site as “a primary space of practice attuned to new media literacies, which are multimodal and multicultural, operating as they do within specific contexts for specific purposes.” What it was, really, was a class in technology and game design.
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"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." Henry David Thoreau
Well do they?
No I'm not asking if they were distracted.
I'm asking, Could they hear you?
Breath is what allows you to project your voice.
Did they hear each word?
Articulate each word, so that they know what you said. Make sure your pronunciation works for your audience. Do they relate to your colloquialisms and sayings?
Explain abbreviations and acronyms or at least make sure their context ensures they are understood.
Don't lose the audience before they even have a chance to be distracted, and you will if they don't even know what you said.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall
-- Confucious
iPad app Prompster is all-in-one speechwriter, recorder & teleprompter
Teleprompters were once the province of conventions and television studios. I've told you about open-source software that will put a teleprompter on your desktop or laptop. Now, iPad owners can take the teleprompter with them with new app Prompster
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Recognized as a leading provider of at-home and mentored coach training curricula, The Coaching Institute delivers a preeminent course of study for people wanting to become coaches, develop their coaching skills, and grow their coaching businesses.
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