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Communication Skills

Presentation Skills: How To Give Great Presentations

People skills | Presentation skills | Persuasion
First, some great and useful quotes about making presentations:   Essentially the structure of all good presentations is to: Tell'em what you're gonna tell'em. Tell'em. ...
Communication Skills

Active Listening Skills (How To Be A Great Listener)

Active listening | Listening skills best-active-listening-tip
The best tip for active listening: repeat the last three words.   When people talk about being a great listener, they mean being great at active listening, which is about observing the ...
Communication Skills

How To Give Feedback


Feedback is also known as constructive criticism.   Helpful feedback: - Is concrete and specific. It says precisely what the other person is doing wrong e.g. 'Your resume is 3 pages ...
Communication Skills

Question Skills: How We Can Be Great At Asking Questions


Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. - Voltaire   The Kipling questions: I keep six honest serving men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why...
Communication Skills

100+ Useful Techniques For Great Small Talk

People skills | Small talk | Conversation skills
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

The 20 Best Tips For Speaking Better

People skills | Small talk | Conversation skills best-speaking-tip-people-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,&#...
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How To Speak And Influence People Like Barack Obama

People skills | Public speaking
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...
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How To Be A Smart/Witty Talker

People skills | Public speaking how to be smart and witty
  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 ...
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How To Give Impromptu Speeches

People skills | Public speaking
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

30+ Techniques About Killing It With Public Speaking

People skills | Public speaking
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...