Presentation Skills Training

2 Distinctions To Make You the Best Influencer Possible

Recently I was reminded of a coaching call with one of my clients, a very smart and successful businessman. When I say he is smart, I am saying he is “Michael Scofield smart” (for those familiar with the TV show Prison break)! This guy always asks profound questions about presentation and influence skills that are [...]

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[New Video] The S.P.I.F Influence Strategy

“We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.” – Antonio Damasio One of the major mistakes that sales professionals, executives and entrepreneurs do when presenting their ideas is “dumping way to much facts, statistics and information without creating proper emotional states.” In this training video, you will learn how [...]

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How to Effectively Present Your Ideas

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way. ~ Joey Skaggs When it comes to public speaking and Presentation skills training, there are 4 areas [...]

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Mission Possible. This will make your dreams come true..

As we say goodbye to 2011 and welcome 2012, I’m sure you have big hopes, goals and dreams for the future. I know I do. Since day one Roberto and I have had a dream of making InfluenceOlogy an international brand. 3 years ago I made this declaration and the last time I looked, we [...]

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Christmas Carols
– “Brazilian Style”

If you have been following InfluenceOlogy for anytime now, you know one of the many things that makes my friend and business partner Roberto so lovable and endearing is his accent and his ‘occasional’ grammar mistakes and saying a ‘few’ things incorrect–after all–english is his 3rd language . So in the spirit of the holidays [...]

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Presentation Skills in Today’s Changing Work Environment

Presentation skills is one of the most important yet marginalized skill set in the corporate world today. Many supervisors, managers, and even executives are having a hard time expressing ideas and laying out information to their subordinates. This is actually not surprising knowing that presenting something in front of a crowd can be naturally nerve [...]

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Big Balls, Big Waves….and Influence????

Are you ready to break a world record? Two weeks ago Garrett McNamara set a new world record by surfing a 90-foot wave! Great surfers, like great presenters and influencers, have several things in common. In this quick video, you will learn 3 quick principles that both surfers and presenters must have to achieve successful [...]

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Should Ask Questions

We all are familiar with the concept of F.A.Q., or frequently asked questions. What most of us are not familiar is with the concept of S.A.Q., or , “should ask questions” (the questions that our prospective clients should ask us, but they don’t). In this quick video, you will learn 3 “Should Ask Questions” about [...]

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What is the Difference Between Presenting and Influencing?

At Influenceology we often use the tag line “Stop Presenting! and Start Influencing” and recently someone asked me what is the difference? Influence has many meanings varying by context. In the context of presentations, presenting is merely sharing information and influencing is sharing the information in such a way that the audience is so deeply [...]

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Deadly Sins of Presenting: 3 Things to NEVER Do During Your Next Presentation

With so much attention given to what you MUST do during presentations, let me give a few pointers about what NOT to do. 1.) Arrive late: this is a cardinal sin for most situations, but it is especially important when you are the presenter. There is no better way to start off on the wrong [...]

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