Unless the prospect of public humiliation exhilarates you, don’t enter the Q&A arena without a plan. Study these rules before you invite the first question:
The mantra “people are our most important asset” is commonplace today in business circles. You can find it in so many annual reports and press releases that it has lost all of its original meaning. Here are a few ways to build a front-line focus organization
Today’s world is on information overload, and there isn’t enough time to sift through all the messages. If you can’t capture people’s attention and deliver your message with brevity, you’ll lose them.You know you have terrific ideas to pitch and important information to share. So how do you get the other person to listen to it?
Breakthrough change refers to those disruptive initiatives that dramatically, profoundly affect the organization and the people in it. It redefines the prospects for the future and interrupts the organization’s cautious momentum plan with incremental improvement.
So, what do you do when you feel like your audience is not fully engaged during your presentation, when it seems as if your speaking world is crumbling all around you? How do you react?