Leadership Series: Presenting
Leadership Series: Presenting You know how it feels. You walk up to the microphone, your knees are a bit shaky, your stomach feels unsettled, and you’re having trouble catching your breath. Presenting can be stressful and intimidating but it is also a huge opportunity to move the masses and incite change. With the help of LifeHack columnist, Scott Young, today we’ll cover nine presenting tips that will help you prepare for your presentation, reduce nerves and speak and communicate effectively. Preparing your presentation Put Yourself in the Audience – When writing a...
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Leadership Series: Vision Just a few weeks after birth, a newborn baby can only see between 8 and 15 inches from his/her face; and, not until about 8 months can he/she recognize a person across the room. Would you let someone with that type of vision drive a car? — No way. Reaction time is limited to almost nothing and it would be completely dangerous. Likewise, visionary leadership is essential for the success–and safety–of any company. Business Dictionary defines vision well: “An aspirational description of what an organization would like to achieve or...
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Leadership Series: What is Leadership? So, what is leadership? Well, that seems like an easy question but in truth, it’s hard to come to a clear cut answer. Some might say it means taking charge, others might say its organizing groups and still others might say it has nothing to do with authority at all. So let’s start with what some “well-knowns” consider to be leadership: “Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.” – Brian Tracy “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and...
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Leadership Series: Introduction Darren Hardy, former publisher of SUCCESS Magazine, entrepreneur and motivational speaker once posed a powerful question that goes something like this, “What is the one skill that would dramatically change the quality of your life?” It might be communication, empathy, diligence, financial acumen, or perhaps a technical skill like programming or product engineering. But what if we told you that there is one skill that is the sum of all other skills–the culmination of them all? Well, there is. And it’s LEADERSHIP. Leadership...
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The Business Model Canvas Now that we’ve spoken about the Business Idea Canvas, our next tool in line is the Business Model Canvas. This revolutionary tool is a simple, yet powerful method for setting structure to your business idea/new product/new branch of your existing business in order to understand your “business model.” Well, that’s a catchy, often over used term, but what is a business model? Investopedia defines it as: “The plan implemented by a company to generate revenue and make a profit from operations. The model includes the components...
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