1. Business Ice Breakers
- What is a typical day?
- What get you started in ...?
- What got you interested in ...?
- What do you enjoy most about your profession?
- What do you see as c...
Communication Skills
1. How to Bullshit like a CEO
A Fortune 50 CEO being coached before the conference, reported by the New York Times from Davos:
- 'You've got to stay on message,...
Communication Skills
A reporter writes about the Obama in the year 2000:
…I never heard him launch into the preacher-man voice he now employs during speeches. He sounded vanilla, and activists in his mostly blac...
Communication Skills
Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike.
- Madame de Stael
Talking smartly, using wit, is a ...
Communication Skills
1. Pros/Cons method: Pick out pros and cons of the subject at hand. 'On one hand...'/'On the other hand...'
2. The History method: Start with 'In the past...' and ...
Communication Skills
The shape of great speeches:
All great speeches are in the shape of 'What is - what could be - and you call out the gap'.
- Nancy Duarte
The things speakers obsess about are...
Communication Skills
1. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
- Dalai Lama
2. Be ready for Unexpected and Unlikely Fri...
Communication Skills
1. Give each other some space. But not too much space. Just enough space where they don't suffocate. Each one musty have a life outside the relationship.
2. 'It'...
Communication Skills
Harvard researchers have found out that it takes just two minutes to increase your confidence- just practice the 'starfish' power pose.
This is also known as the 'I just won t...
Communication Skills
Meet and greet is the most common of all business interactions. The best tips that work have been summarized below:
1. Introduce yourself: Don’t think too much about how to introduc...