Tag: Communication
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What is a story?
At the very simplest, a story is: A character Who wants something Overcomes obstacles to get it An epic story is A character Who wants something massive And is willing to risk everything to get it The real depth of any story is not whether the character achieves the goal but who they become as…
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IESE Speaking Gurus Interview Series
This is a series of 10 interviews with the expert coaches during the IESE EMBA Intensive week 2013. (If you are viewing via rss, video on the blog here). The Expert Contributors are: Tony Anagor ([twitter-follow screen_name=’lifestyledmc’]) Florian Mueck ([twitter-follow screen_name=’the7minutestar’]) Conor Neill (Me!) ([twitter-follow screen_name=’cuchullainn’]) Tobias Rodrigues ([twitter-follow screen_name=’conflictmentor’]) John Zimmer ([twitter-follow screen_name=’zimmerjohn’]) The Speaking Guru Interviews How…
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6 Keys to Get Your Email Read [Video]
6 Keys to Get Email Read Here are 6 keys to engage the reader when you ask for some help via email: Indicate the social connection between sender and reader – where did you meet? who put you in contact? “We met at the Foundum Unplugged conference 2 weeks ago” Understand the readers perspective – what context (background information)…
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Your Job is Not Your Job
If someone asked you, “What is your job?”, what would your response be? Go ahead, take a minute to think about your answer. I asked a similar question a few weeks ago in my post Become Indispensable: Solve Interesting Problems) Professor Fred Kofman tells a story about a question that changed his outlook on this…
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4 Great Posts on Communication and Leadership
How to Give a Killer Presentation Chris Anderson, Owner of TED Presentations rise or fall on the quality of the idea, the narrative, and the passion of the speaker. It’s about substance, not speaking style or multimedia pyrotechnics. It’s fairly easy to “coach out” the problems in a talk, but there’s no way to “coach…
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IESE Webinar [Video]: Develop Your Communication Skills
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The Webinar: This is the recording of the IESE Develop Your Communication Skills webinar we ran on 13th April 2013. It is here on the IESE Business School YouTube channel. Storify Summary of the Webinar via Twitter Hashtag: #iesewebinar Communication Skills Webinar with Prof. Conor Neill http://t.co/rzT7nCPaVB #storify #iesewebinar #communication — IESE Business School (@iesebs)…
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[Slideshare] Presenting as Yourself
Chiara Ojeda who writes the Tweak Your Slides blog has recently posted a new set of visuals called Presenting As Yourself. It has powerful visuals. It provides great reminders of the important aspects of communicating with impact; communicating in a way that engages the audience and lets your message stick. Presenting As Yourself What are…
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TED Education: What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about persuasion
I wrote “Give a TED talk” on my bucket list 4 years ago, today I feel happy to see the idea come to fruition. It is not a TED Talk per-se, i.e. it is not up there on a stage, but in my mind almost better – a lesson from my class, and a concept…
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The Speech Act Theory of JL Austin
The Words, the Meaning, the Effect As we communicate, there are 3 separate processes at play: what we say, what we mean when we say it, and what we accomplish by saying it A rhetorician would call these 3 separate processes: 1) locution, 2) illocution, and 3) perlocution. In my courses we use the shorthand “Point X” to…