Archive for Category: Pitching/Presenting

Don’t berate yourself –It takes practice to bake your pitch to perfection

The trick is to shorten your learning curve by making the duration to perfection a factor of frequency more than a factor of time. Pitch as many times as humanly possible, improving with each successive attempt based on progressive lessons learnt. An account winning pitch takes time to bake. As with every new skill, even

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Use PowerPoint as a visual aid, and not to kill your presentation

“I came hoping to get some relief of my ulcer but listening to him only stressed the ulcer the more.”  This is because in his presentation, the doctor had used PowerPoint as a verbal crutch not a visual aid. Use PowerPoint as a Visual Aid If it’s been said once it’s been said a million

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Master the 5 Rs of delivering a successful presentation

Over the years, as a firm we have sieved Delivering A Successful Presentation into five tips; representation, repertoire, research, rehearsal and repetition. This happened in my infancy stage as a life insurance agent. I had just landed my biggest prospect to date. I was now in his office, this chief engineer of a multinational firm.After

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