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Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past ten years studying vulnerability, courage and authenticity and poses the following question in an insightful and inspirational talk: How do we learn to embrace our vulnerabilities and imperfections so that we can engage in our […]
If you are very clear about your key message or core theme and you have given detailed thought to what you are going to say, then all you really need to do is tell your story simply and sincerely. Brother David Steindl-Rast does just that. All too often, the first port of call when preparing […]
You don’t have to watch Strictly Come Dancing for too long before you hear some hapless celebrity being critiqued for their ‘top line.’ It’s done for good reason as the results are instant. What they are saying is, quite simply, stand up straight and be ‘open’. In a situation where you need to be noticed and remembered […]
All too often, presenters hide behind the brick walls of never-ending numbers and charts under the erroneous impression that this is just what their audience wants. It isn’t. What audiences want is to be engaged, stimulated and changed in some way. Audiences do not appreciate the force-feeding approach to facts and statistics and will generally […]
There are some 30 million PP presentations created every day according to scientist John Bohannon. How many of those presentations are actually engaging in any way? Think about the amount of billable hours wasted in the interminable mire of monotonous slides. We all agree. It is rare to come out of a presentation and say […]
Pakuranga MP Maurice Williamson caused a sesnation in New Zealand’s Parliament with his impassioned speech during the third reading of the marriage equality bill. He had MPs roaring with laughter and his four-minute oration has over 1.3 milion hits in YouTube. His hearfelt irreverence is just one of the reasons it is so inspiring – […]