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March 2007 |
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Want to Make Your Ideas Stick? Follow Six Steps, New Book
Says. |
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Joey Asher
President's
Perspective |
A buddy
of mine swears this actually happened to a friend of his.
The guy walks into a bar looking for a good time when a
beautiful blond woman shoots him a gorgeous smile. He
walks over and introduces himself. She responds, “Can I
buy you a drink?”
Blown
away by his good fortune, he says, “I’ll take a martini
with two olives.”
He took
a few sips and the next thing he remembers, he wakes up
in a hotel bathroom tub, naked with a long stitched-up
wound on his left side. It turned out that the
woman had drugged him, carried him to a hotel, and
stolen his kidney!
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If You Want Your Audience to Love You, Reveal Something Personal
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A study of what
makes people fall in love has implications for helping
speakers connect with audiences. Specifically, the more personal
stuff you reveal about yourself, the more likely your audience is
to like you.
At least that’s
the conclusion that we draw from a recently publicized
study about what makes people fall in love.
In the study, researchers at
the State University of New York at Stony Brook
gave pairs of students scripts that urged them to reveal things
about themselves in varying degrees. The pairs that revealed more
about themselves tended to form closer personal bonds. In fact one
pair got married.
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At Networking Events, Most People Waste Time Chatting with Friends:
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If you’re going to networking events to grow your business, chances are that you’re not nearly as effective
building relationships as
you could be.
That’s because most of us spend
too much time
at networking events chatting with friends.
That is the conclusion of a study conducted by Professors Paul
Ingram and Michael Morris of Columbia Business School.
For the study, the
professors staged a networking event at the business school,
inviting about 100 business people. To get a precise record of who
met whom during the course of the night, attendees wore a small
electronic device called an nTag to track all encounters.
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Are you a Fan of Academy Award Speeches?
Visit the Oscar
Acceptance Speech Generator. |
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If you endured the
recent four-hour Academy Awards telecast, you probably had all the
boring acceptance speeches you can handle. But if you want to have
a little fun with the Oscars, check out the
Oscar Acceptance Speech generator.
It’s sort of a “Mad
Libs” for the Hollywood set. It gives you a form speech
and then allows you to fill in the blanks with answers that range
from funny to risqué.
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Public Speaking Tip from Willie Wonka. |
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“Invention, my
dear friends, is ninety-three percent perspiration, six percent
electricity, four percent evaporation, and two percent butterscotch
ripple.”
Those are the
words of Willie Wonka. And while Wonka probably wasn’t thinking
about public speaking when he said it, we take his words to mean
that the key to success is hard work. And that is certainly true
when it comes to public speaking.
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