Posts Tagged ‘communication skills’
Make Your Sound Bites Steal-able With One-Liners
If you think sound bites are just for the salesy, sleazy or slick, think again. They are your core messages that convey the most important things you want your audience to know. I take you through some steal-able examples that you can model —and show you how to make your sound bites steal-worthy.
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Why I Can’t Stand The Cult of Fake Authenticity
Are you being fake by blurting out your most intimate inner workings to strangers? Do you sometimes feel battered by in-your-face authenticity? Let’s be truly real vs. crafting authenticity.
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A Media Training Transition That Can Save Your Skin
You’re asked a question you don’t want to answer. You’re caught off guard by the host or reporter’s surprise, irrelevant, inappropriate, intimate or invasive question. Here’s the one transition that can save your skin that works every time.
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Media Training to Script Your Story of Origin
Your story of origin or your signature story is the one story you’ll need for any media appearance or any public speaking engagement. This story is what makes you stand out as an original. And it’s the question that practically every journalist or host will ask you about first. You’ll discover 3 ways to uncover your personal, intriguing, and captivating story.
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5 Media Training Tips To Become a Sound Bite Genius
When I was media coaching sisters Kitty & Jennifer O’Neil, whose book Decorating with Funky Shui Kitty said something that I want to share with you. “I’m going to try talking in sound bites to everyone.” What great practice. In this episode you’ll hear unusual tips from a film director, musician, a journalist and a secretary of defense.
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The Single Best Way to Set Yourself Apart From Every Other Speaker or Interview Guest With Nancy Juetten
Nancy Juetten has worked with hundreds of authors, entrepreneurs, speakers, and Internet millionaires on their bios, business and speaker sheet. She shares how you can sound unique even in a sea of competitors vying for the same business. Her perspective on publicity has informed the way she works today and you’ll see how you can show that you’re the one to choose—whether it’s to be interviewed on radio, TV or print, or to get that speaking gig
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