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Janet

Janet has written 148 posts for Select Articles

How Storytelling Can Grow Your Business

People love stories. We love to hear about other people, and stories help us to learn, remember and put to use new concepts. Aesop knew this. His fables help us to learn life lessons through tales about others, without having to learn them the hard way.
In modern times, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen also [...]

Qualities of Good Communication

Webster’s Dictionary defines communication as "a giving or exchanging of information, signals, or messages by talk, gestures, writing, etc." The primary goal of communication in a training setting is to transfer information to participants in such a way that a maximum amount of the message is understood and retained.
It has been said that communication is [...]

Tips to Energize Your Presentations

"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul." ? Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
Ask yourself, "What is the audience feeling?" and "How would [...]

Close Deals in Record Time!

Remember back when the ability to create a slide show presentation using PowerPoint was cutting-edge technology? PowerPoint presentations changed the way that companies and seminars did business. It was easy to take along your presentation material; just grab your laptop and go. Sound and visual effects, fancy screen designs, bulleted features ? presentations had it [...]

Media Training Tips: Maximising Your Media Moment

Media training is a ‘must do’ professional development program for any serious leader or manager.
Media interview training provides you with the skills to effectively deal with the media.
Media relations training, with a specific focus on media presentation training for television can be seriously nerve wracking for first timers.
Here’s why you should consider doing a media [...]

Writing The Query Letter

The query letter is simply a business letter that serves a dualpurpose. It is an introduction of you to an agent, and an inquiryas to whether the agent would be interested in seeing a particularpiece of your work. The query letter is the first “picture” an agentwill have of you and your work; and [...]

A Discussion about Facilitation Skills

Interview with Julia Apple-Smith, Manager of Employee Development at Sauer-Danfoss Ames, Iowa about Facilitation Skills:
Q: Would you tell me a little bit about the culture at Sauer-Danfoss?
Julia: About nine years ago, Dave Pfeifle, President and CEO had a vision for us to change our culture. We, at one time, were part of the Sundstrand Corporation, and [...]

After the Speech

Usually the emphasis on making an effective speech is what you do in preparation before the presentation begins.

Shamus Browns Top 5 Sales Presentation Tips

When its time to give your next sales presentation, here are my favorite tips for delivering powerful, charismatic, and engaging sales presentations.
#1 – PLANT YOUR FEET SQUARELY ON THE FLOOR
How you hold your physical body during your sales pitch communicates a tremendous amount of information about you to your audience. Studies have shown [...]

10 Tips For Bringing Your Event To Life

Your job as an event planner doesn’t stop with the meeting in the company boardroom. You may be call upon to organize an employee appreciation event, an awards dinner, a product launch, the celebration of a company milestone, a gala recognizing a longtime employee’s retirement, an incentive event for the company’s sales force, a [...]