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25SEP2011
mormon

NLP: Nothing Like Properscience!

About every other course somebody asks me about how Visual Cognitive Dissonance (VCD) sits with Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). My tongue-in-cheek response is that VCD is based on science and, as far as I am aware, is consistent with all the major religions, and so almost certainly consistent with the minor ones such as NLP. Why do I compare NLP to … Continue reading →

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Tagged with Active Listening, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Presentation Theory, Visual Cognitive Dissonance

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6SEP2011
question-dice

Be Careful What You Ask For

A question can tell you more about the questioner than they realise: be careful what you ask! I’m helping a bid team prepare for a major RFP and eventual presentation. It’s for outsourced global business services to one of the largest companies in the world, and the team has an opportunity to ask clarification questions tomorrow. Today our conversation focused … Continue reading →

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Tagged with Active Listening, Sales

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17NOV2010
hello

Interaction Throughout the Presentation

Moving from Monologue to Dialogue to encourage audience interaction and involvement. A couple of weeks ago I was preparing a sales team for a two-day presentation session. The prospect is outsourcing a $1 billion IT project and scheduled 14 different sessions, 30-90 minutes each with 25 presenters and contributors in total. In a sales situation like this, the more the … Continue reading →

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Tagged with Active Listening, Audience, Effective Presentation

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1OCT2010
Seminar

Audience Attention and Recall

People speak at around 125 words a minute but think considerably faster. When listening to a presenter, hearing the words takes a relatively small toll of the mind of an audience member, leaving them plenty of cognitive capacity to think about other stuff. Depending on what they do or are thinking about will determine how much of the information they will … Continue reading →

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Tagged with Active Listening, Audience Recall, Passive Listening, Visual Cognitive Dissonance

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