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Pitching and presenting can be a nerve wracking business.
The very best and most dynamic leaders in industry, performers, even rock stars admit to suffering from nerves when they are in the spotlight.
And its not really surprising you’re nervous – you’re in a heightened situation where you’re asking people to focus their attention entirely on what you’re saying or doing.
How will you be judged by your audience, team, boss, organization, or perhaps an even wider audience? Read more
When we’re asked for our top tips on any management or leadership communications topic it can be difficult to narrow it down to a shortlist of three to five. Picking just one for presentation skills is torture!
But that’s exactly what we were asked to do for the video put together to promote our 2 hour session on Powerful Presentations at the Institute of Leadership and Management.
As anyone who has been on one of my Leadership, Line Management or Influencing training courses will tell you I like to quote old Aristotle and his theory of Ethos, Pathos and Logos. That’s not the Three Musketeers (though that’s how I remember them) but the triangle of values, emotions and logic that Aristotle claimed were inextricably linked.
Around 2000 years later science is proving him correct. A report in the Wall Street Journal details the findings of fascinating new research in a field called ‘Neuroeconomics’, which shows that there is a link between emotions and financial decision making.