No matter what department you are working in; marketing, sales, IT, customer service, or another department, chances are you will have to give a presentation at some point in your career. Regardless of the presentation topic, you need to connect with the audience. Here are some tips for giving amazing presentations: Make sure the structure [...]
Tell me a story We all tell stories, all the time, about what went on at the weekend, first date, hockey game, in fact we use stories all the time to convey context, meaning and our reaction to them. Stories and the way we tell them provide insights into our individual and cultural values. In [...]
Stick to these principles and you’ll always do well. We turn on the television and see people speaking before crowds or handling reporters with confidence and it all looks effortless. In the more than15 years I have been training people to become more effective communicators, I have watched for common qualities among great speakers. Are [...]
Did President Obama waste his time of ‘inspiration’? Is he now acting out of desperation? After his election as President, Barack Obama had the opportunity use his ‘inspiration’ influence to continue to communicate his model of “US Health Care Reform,” a major election promise. What happened? I don’t know, however he did not continue to [...]
We have a complex relationship with change. On the on the one hand we desire it and it is demanded of us, on the other we resist it and detest it. If as leaders and communicators we want to motivate change in our organizations or in our society we need to look at it with [...]
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t you’re right” Henry Ford Some of the most powerful public speakers I know started out with the most fear. When I am coaching my clients I get them to focus on these four beliefs: they significantly reduce anxiety over public speaking and energizes them to a [...]
I often get comments and occasional questions about what I am doing or from events that I speak at. Here is my response to a recent comment and I believe that we often forget that “presentation skills” is far more than giving a speech, (Leadership In The Always On World 2009/02/10). I am happy to [...]
Why? You’re going for an interview and want to sound and look good – learn how to present yourself successfully! You are in a competition, discover how to perform well and get what you want! You want to start your own business – you will have to present your ideas and plans to an investor [...]
The crisis is on people’s minds! People and the stock markets are volatile. The bailouts are not convincing and people do not believe that things will change. People are stuck in a negative emotional state about all the uncertainty. Bad news has affected them personally. I have noticed three general reactions to the current economic [...]
THE DIGITAL WORLD With millions of mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders in use in North America we are living in an ‘always on’ world, and any recording of you can be displayed via podcasts, ‘youtube.com’, or video camera – an event that would have been, seen only once by one person and then allowed [...]
  Geoffrey X Lane is an experienced major bid coach with years of experience as a trainer for public speaking and presentation skills. He’s worked with leaders from a wide variety of organizations, helping them create successful proposals, bids and tenders. Geoffrey creates boardroom credibility through both his personal facilitation style and through successes like being the winning bid bid coach for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Bid Team in Prague.
Many organizations have the requisite technical skill to win a bid, but don’t communicate them well. Geoffrey X Lane can help your experienced team fine-tune the details that transform a good bid proposal into a winning bid presentation. |