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Reading a Children’s Book Can Improve Your Leadership!
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Tell Your Stories and They’ll Tell You Theirs
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Get Better at Impromptu Speaking
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Clarity in Your Presentations
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Use Your Poetic License in Service of Your Audience
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Creative Listening: Ask Questions, and Pause to “Get the Gold!”
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Interviews and Q&A’s: Take your Time
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People Like to Hear Meaningful Stories!
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The Art is in Hiding the Art
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Your Talk Begins The Moment They See You. Be Mindful of your Body Language!
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The Opening is Really Important!
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When You Relax in the Present Filler Words Will Disappear
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What Matters to the Audience
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Start EARLY and Practice More
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Connect Us to the Problem, We’ll Care about the Solution! 💥
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Take the Journey to Your “One Idea Worth Spreading,” and Make a Big Difference!
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An Attitude of Gratitude and What I Learned from my India Talk
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To Zoom Or Not To Zoom?
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We All Need Media Training Now! 📢
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The “Opening Your Laptop Story” ✨
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Charismatic Leaders, Groups Thrive on Truth-telling… 😐
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Be Clear About Your Origin Story
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Be Present and be Positive 💥
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This Is The Way to Turn Vulnerability Into Power! 💥
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Harness the Power of your Origin Story
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Right Topic For Your Talks 👈
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Identify the Right Origin Story
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YOU Have Inspiring Stories – Find and SHARE Them!
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Fork in the Road Moments
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Small Talk Has Been Misnamed!
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Gossip is Corrosive, Impedes Success
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Your Culture Underlies Your Strategy, Here’s How To Influence Culture!
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Making the Human Connection Is KEY As We Are Integrating And Reintegrating Our Teams
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Look at Your Scars and What You’ve Learned from Them
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Speak to Them Like They’re Great!
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Feeling Any Discomfort When Addressing an Audience?
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Voiceover Work Is Much More Than A Silky Smooth Voice…
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We Have Two Ears and One Mouth! And Our Ears Are Always Open! 🎁
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The Mass Delusion That Keeps Many Speakers From Soaring!
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Great Rhetoric Inspires Great Deeds! Are You Giving Your Rhetoric Its Due!
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A KEY Leadership Opportunity: Insightful Vulnerability™ 💪
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Happy Mother’s Day! And, the Crew 4 Launch!
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Resonate With Gratitude and Humility
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Becoming An Unbreakable Bundle
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Anxiety As We Return
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Top Leaders Understand the DEEP Value of Public Speaking
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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
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Insightful Vulnerability™ Shows Why You’re a Leader
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Getting Your Message Out Is Always an Act of Courage and Generosity
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Being Succinct Is Worth The Effort
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Who is Your Audience? Be Sure to Tell Them The “Right” Origin Story
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Harness the Power of Your Origin Story: Looking at Your Scars
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Get Different!
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Deliver Your Most Powerful TED-Like Talk You Must Be Aligned
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Nice Vs. Kind
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Shoshin Means “Beginner’s Mind,” And It Saved Me From Myself
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The Value of Storytelling a la TED
One of the most essential pieces of communication is the Origin Story. Storytelling is fundamental to understanding and expressing our humanity.
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The Most Important Things to Know
Don't make the mistake of underestimating this...
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Here’s A New Way To Ask The Most Important Question
In this 59 second video, I challenge you to ask yourself a new question as we move into 2022. What is the meaning of your life?
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From Our Family to Yours…
Merry Christmas from our family to yours with John Bates!
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One of the Greatest Lessons of Leadership…
Speak to the greatness in everyone, yes, even that guy!
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Insightful Vulnerability(TM) is the key to connecting
Insightful Vulnerability™, one of the biggest keys to success. Can be inspiring and over the years I've seen the inspiration, the connection, and the respect that Insightful Vulnerability™ can bring.
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You Need to Get Clear With You!
As I in noticed the process I use in support of people creating their TED-like talks, presentations, or author speaking-tours, one thing stands out: to be successful you must be clear with yourself.
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Practice the Gratitude Effect
This Thanksgiving practice the gratitude effect - take some time to be thankful and express gratitude.
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Sharing Life Experiences With a Young Audience
Connecting with a younger audience, share your "pearls" of life with money management, importance of people and staying present.
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If You Want to Connect Like a TED Speaker, Make It Personal
Share something personal and meaningful to help your audience connect with you.
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It’s Only Funny (and Meaningful) if it’s Relevant
Don't throw humor into your presentation, unless it makes sense.
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What is Your ONE Idea Worth Spreading?
Your message will stick-the-landing.
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Jack Canfield Asks John Bates Why He Is So Passionate About His Work
This is a slightly embarrassing admission about who I was, and who I became once I realized service is joy.
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Failure and Shame | TEDx Taiz
Being aware of and Ok with shame.
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I Had A VERY Embarrassing Epiphany… And I’m So Glad
Sometimes it takes an embarrassing situation for you to see what you offer the world.
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Dolph Lundgren on Healing and Forgiveness
Points to the inner work that is so important to a fulfilled life.
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