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Maurice Decastro

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Storytelling has enormous value for professionals and leaders in business presentations. ‘Never be boring again’, written by Doug Stevenson is a valuable guide to storytelling. It sets out in a very compelling way the most effective means of constructing stories to connect with your audience. Many speakers have heard the term, ‘The Hero’s Journey’; a[…]

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We are already rapidly approaching the end of the first week of 2015 and I wonder just how many of those  New Year resolutions have been broken already. Research by the University of Scranton, Journal of Clinical Psychology suggests that last year the top 10 resolutions made were: 1. Lose weight 2. Getting organised 3. Spend less,[…]

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Mindful Presenting is about developing the skill to place our attention on our audience and our objective without getting distracted by troublesome thoughts and external events. It’s about using the  the potential of the mind to perform at the very highest level. Every presentation is a performance. That doesn’t mean it’s an act, it simply[…]

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All presenters and public speakers face the same challenge; getting and keeping their audience’s attention. Psychologists at Princeton University suggest that people make judgments about the attractiveness, likeability, trustworthiness, and competence of other people after looking at their faces for just 100 milliseconds. No wonder so many presenters are anxious about the idea of speaking in[…]

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Does Ed Milliband speak with the gravitas of Obama, the grace of Clinton or the glow of Cameron? Not quite. That said, he did the right thing speaking without notes at this week’s Labour conference in Manchester. From a technical speaking perspective he: Made great eye contact Paused well Spoke at a good pace Gestured[…]

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Matt Cutts  is the man behind search quality and search engine optimization in arguably the world’s most important internet company. Some may envy his position. Few however, would covet the enormous and variable challenges he faces. Cutts was the keynote speaker at PubCon, the premier social media and optimization conference in 2013, and it’s easy[…]

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