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Meetings are necessary for how businesses drive performance up. It is essential now more than ever that your meeting or presentation is memorable. How do you capture the attention of your audience? You use icebreakers! In Icebreakers that Build Engaged Teams and Set the Tone for Your Audience, you'll find everything you need to know to conquer lack of participation and improve communication.

With real-life examples and actionable advice, Paul Axtell shows you how to design meetings for results, lead them to achieve agendas that move projects forward, and even allow time for building the relationships that make working together in a remarkable way possible. Based on his award-winning efficiency training title Make Meetings Matter and updated for the virtual meeting experience, this book will revolutionize the meeting—moving it from that dreaded obligation to a powerful way to get things done in business and in life.

The Enduring Urgency strategy can be used to improve our families and our communities, but it starts in the mind of each person. It is about holding a decade and a day at the same time; seeing who and where you want to be a decade from now and doing everything you can each day to become that person. Enduring Urgency is a strategy used by effective humans throughout history.

The Pin Drop Principle is a step-by-step master class for anyone wishing to become a more confident and credible communicator. Lewis and Mills believe all business professionals ought to deliver their message in such an engaging way that one could literally hear a pin drop when they speak. The secret to doing so comes from an unusual world: professional acting.

In this audiobook, I will walk you through step-by-step guides of how to impress and motivate an audience of one or of many. We'll start from the moment before you open your mouth through to when you close it.

Do you want to finally gain control of your emotions and stop letting them run your life? Everyday we come across circumstances beyond our control, which make us feel anger or sadness or a whole host of negative thoughts. Those negative thoughts can often stay with us and lead us to create problems in other areas of our lives. If you are suffering from this then it’s time to invest in your emotional intelligence and purchase this audiobook. You can start to reclaim your life by applying simple techniques that help you gain clarity, strength, and control when negative thoughts appear.

Presenting has to be one of the most nerve-racking things that we have to deal with in life. The thought of having everyone’s eyes on us as we stand before them, bare and ready to be judged, is something that most people fear. By listening to this book, you will find that there are many ways in which you can relieve that stress and become confident in yourself. You will learn how to take a room by storm and keep the audience engaged, hanging on to your every word until the very end. Are you ready to take the stage by storm? Then look no further than The Presenter’s Dilemma.

Public. Speaking. Two simple words that can strike fear in the hearts and minds of anyone facing the prospect of stepping onto that platform. When it comes to the human mind, the shortest distance between two points is certainly not a straight line. So prepare yourself, for I'm about to take you on a round-about journey to the finish line. Conquering your fear will not be easy. But if I did it, so can you. And I'll help you. Because I've been where you now are.

You know this. You spend days preparing your presentation because your career might depend on it. You even practice in front of a mirror. You might even learn the entire text by heart so that nothing could ever go wrong. And yet the presentation turns out to be a nightmare. Your heart is racing, your entire body shakes, and your brain goes into full fight-or-flight mode so you can barely remember what you were going to talk about. Needless to say, your boss and your co-workers are not impressed.

A practical guide based on a proprietary skill assessment tool - a Myers-Briggs for presenters - that provides tips and strategies that address the core element for becoming a successful presenter: you.

Comprehensive practical advice and step by step instructions on how to become an effective communicator and gain valuable editorial media coverage written and narrated by award winning media trainer and broadcaster, Paul Pennington.

Say It Well is a resource for speakers, coaches, marketing professionals, educators, and anyone else who desires to empower their communications.

Learn the arts of saying "no" and negotiation in less than 30 days. In Master of the Arts Series: Say No and Negotiation, you will discover how to set healthy boundaries with close friends, family, and romantic partners without feeling guilty about it, a simple change in wording that will make it less challenging to refuse someone who asks you for a favor, seven common mistakes that could backfire on you when trying to politely turn down an invitation or refuse a request, and more.

Imagine having command of the English language with enough confidence to stand before a group of people from work or school and talk with the authority you have in your field of expertise. When English is your second language, it really doesn't matter whether it's your first presentation or your 50th. Every time you step before an audience you may feel varying degrees of stage fright. It's only natural.

Every time we are asked to give a speech, we feel a sense of nervous energy flow through our body. We think, "I hope that this turns out well." We would give anything to be able to control the future and make this our best speech ever. Well, I've got some good news for you: you are in control and you can make that happen.

Surprised by breast cancer, Cheryl responds from the depth of her meditation practice. Friends offer worry and chicken soup, fear and support, unwanted advice and helpful suggestions. Accepting life-as-it-is leads, one mindful moment at a time, to peace of mind.

China’s meteoric rise to economic powerhouse might be charted with dams. Every river in the country has been tapped to power exploding cities and factories - every river but one. Running through one of the richest natural areas in the world, the Nujiang’s raging waters were on the verge of being dammed when a 2004 government moratorium halted construction. Might the Chinese dragon bow to the "Angry River"? Would Beijing put local people and their land ahead of power and profit? Could this remote region actually become a model for sustainable growth? Ed Grumbine traveled to the far corners of China’s Yunnan province to find out.

In March of 2020, the world was changed forever. We were forced to isolate due to COVID-19 and were thrust into the world of remote work and virtual communication with no preparation. The learning curve was steep, and many people are still struggling to communicate effectively on this new medium. What has become clear over the course of the pandemic is that the future is hybrid, blending the physical setting of pre-COVID-19 with the virtual adaptations we learned during the pandemic.

Mastering Presentations explains how entrepreneurs and small business owners can use guest speaking opportunities to generate rapport with audiences in order to foster business relationships with these audiences. The audiobook provides a simple four-step process for giving presentations that helps eliminate the butterflies and increase self-confidence. It offers tips such as the 10 speaking venues that can generate more clients and credibility, an easy way to improve your memory that will help you present more confidently, and more.

The secret to success isn't always about technical skills. In fact they play a very small part in the grand scheme of things. I mean, if you think about it, we all know a braniac whiz who just can't get ahead in life, and when we look at them it's quite obvious. They don't know how to socialize, deal with conflicts, or even manage their own emotions. But here's the twist: Many of us are this way, just not at the extreme end of the spectrum. Sure, we may be playing the EQ game 10 times better than the braniac, but what if we played it 100 times better?