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'Tell To Win'


How many times do you receive emails with this message?

I agree with it entirely. It’s a message I take to each and every meeting I attend. The difference, I believe, is that before I try to sell anything to anyone I offer them the opportunity to tell their own story comfortably and confidently.
  
  Few of us were born with the skills to stand on stage, I know I wasn’t. So, I feel that anguish, as the presentation approaches. You have read the books, been to the network meetings and to events but you’re still asking yourself “how come I’m not getting enough recognition, enough money or enough contacts?” You’ve tried hard and still, there’s something getting in the way.

   Some people seem to be able to attract interest just by speaking at network meetings, delivering presentations or live video, don’t they?

   Well, if you want to turn your presentations around, if you want to show all those people who sit in their seats and all those who go on stage that you’re prepared to step out of the shadows; if you want to make more of life, then in the next three minutes you will have taken the first step on the path to a richer life, a life where YOU choose what happens to you.

   This step will reveal another truth about you that no one will ever be able to question: You have the spirit to take on new challenges!

Start Now! Start Here:
I’ve always wanted to have a voice, to inspire and be inspired, to be in control! Now I have that voice.

Ernie Boxall

P.S. The one question I get asked more than most is “How do I know if I’m telling a good story?”

Can I offer this template, which I use for my own presentations?
Video your presentations, or look at those of other speakers and ask yourself three questions:

1. What Did I Like?  Content-Performance
2. What Would I Change? What would I have said differently or 
     How would I have made that point differently?
3. What Do I Remember?
    The most important part of the whole exercise. One the day after the              presentation…What do you remember about it?

If you can answer those three questions after each one of your presentations or video productions you will, I believe, be on the way to self-education.


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