Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

How can you subtract just enough reasonableness to rile up your audience, without sounding completely insane? Use direction-giving language, so your audience knows exactly what is expected of them. Sometimes—oftentimes—we don’t want to “move” an audience in the moment; we want to shift their very existence. Show Up To Stir Up.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 28, 2019

An audience member asked us recently, “Can you talk about the danger of sarcasm? Our VP uses it all the time it ruins presentations, derails meetings, and shuts people down.” ” We thought, “We know that guy.” ” We bet you do too. Sure, […].

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

“One of my clients tended to focus on facts, research, and statistics about their product’s ingredients, which was interesting to them but overwhelming and boring to their audience of prospective customers,” Laurie told me. Always consider the needs and expectations of your audience.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

You don't get to pick what traits make you a great leader - your audience does. Every move was about knowing what her audience craved before they even knew it. You have to be what they need , not just who you are. Oprah Winfrey: Oprah isn't just a talk show host. She built an empire by shifting gears at the right time.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 18, 2021

Greet the audience as you would a group of friends. Eye contact— Start by making solid eye contact with the audience. Ask a question that directly engages the audience. Benefits— Explain what the audience will gain. Offer some fresh ideas and insights that will interest the audience. Get their attention.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2014

Never underestimate your audience. Your audience will just sense that you’re listening well. He made the cardinal sin of answering tough questions– he made stuff up. He wasn’t exactly sure of the answer, and he took a chance that we were dumber than he was on the topic. Repeat the Question.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 16, 2018

How do you ensure you craft the very best stories that leave your audience not only inspired, but with an inkling of what to do next? If you’re using business storytelling regularly, how do you assess the impact? There’s no question, stories […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

But true reach is about expanding your audience while making a meaningful and enduring difference that has a lasting impact. 9:40 – The equation for influence and impact is REACH (expanding your audience plus lasting impact). Too many think it’s a question of numbers—the more people you can get in front of, the better.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 14, 2021

Every Friday morning the most popular morning radio show in town hosted Live Audience Friday. After years of listening to Live Audience Friday, my sister, her husband, and I decided it was our turn, so we applied to visit. The show was as enjoyable as I hoped, the hosts’ interaction with the audience was kind, fun, and uplifting.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 28, 2017

It’s a question we hear all the time from audience members […]. Let’s Grow Leaders Q&A In a recent post we invited you to send us your biggest leadership challenge. We received a great question from a healthcare leader in the United Kingdom.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Mind Shift #2: You Don’t Need an Audience You don’t need an audience to reveal your greatness. You don’t need an audience to prepare for the biggest moments of your life. Commit to greatness when you have no audience. We can become so focused on our goals that “the people in our life may quickly go out of focus.”

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 4, 2022

In some cases, the leaders in attendance were front-line managers, while in others, my audience consisted of senior level executives from the C-suite. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been giving keynotes to a wide range of leaders in different industries. But while the subject of these various keynotes was. Click to continue reading.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Executives are naturally a tough audience. Underestimating the Audience. They’ve got limited time, competing priorities, information overload, demanding bosses, and pressure to make great decisions quickly. Your job is to give them all the information they need in a way they can easily digest.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2020

Leaders not only have to perform like they have done so in the past, like having to explain a quarterly business result and individual leadership ability to shareholders, but they also have a much wider audience today. This broader audience (customers, employees, etc.) is quick to judge and often unforgiving.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 25, 2014

Not to everybody–but chose your words and your audiences carefully. Chances are most folks know that what just happened wasn’t fair. Handling this disappointment elegantly will foster deep respect. Stop Talking. Your angry words will travel faster and farther than you ever thought possible. Don’t Be a Blamer.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 13, 2014

They Embraced Feedback : Throughout the course I had been worried that their accent would make it hard for their English speaking audience to understand. They could have easily spared themselves the agony, but they wanted to improve. We worked on pacing, pauses and in some cases volume. They nailed it.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I have stumbled over my words while speaking in front of audiences, failed to clearly communicate messages in writing, and more. Know your audience: Our communication can fall flat when we don’t know our audience. Find out who’s in the audience. Okay, okay… enough with the scary stuff.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

Lesson: The point of a visual presentation is to get the audience to listen. It can be tempting to pack slide or presentation boards with extra information to look smart or give the audience extra value. But he most effective visual presentations are clear, concise, and even terse. …

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

We need it to be specific, improvement-focused, reflective of the audience we are trying to reach, and properly timed. What is interesting, too, is that we might think that the totally novel product or approach would win over your audience. To improve, we need feedback that meets a particular set of criteria.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Deliver Presentations That Make Audiences Care by @KareAnderson. How A Strong Mind Can Give You The Resilience Advantage by @LaRaeQuy. The Great Capitulation: Here’s Why You’re Losing Too Many Good People by @artpetty. Leadership Word of the Day: DISAPPOINTED by @edbatista. How to Stop Feeling Like a Failure by @SteveGutzler.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 12, 2019

Effective leaders use the right words combined with the right gestures to deliver powerful messages that inspire a performance from the intended audience. Learn How to Listen and Engage Your Audience. You can use bulleted points in a note to remind you of the ideas you wish to communicate to your audience. Always Prepare.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 10, 2022

Thor (Chris Hemsworth) returned to the cinema to rock audiences. A Reel Leadership Article. Moviegoers were treated to a new movie about the god of thunder. Thor: Love And Thunder had a similar feel to his last featured movie, Thor: Ragnarok, yet Love And Thunder felt somewhat flat. The jokes didn’t land.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2017

Cathy is an amazing storyteller and story listener– and we enjoyed working with her audience to share our story in a recent webinar. The result was “Cathy’s Credo” which I communicate on my website and is a tool I share with all my clients and audiences. Winning Well Connection Reflection. Why are stories so powerful?

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

As I conduct observation coaching with leaders, I watch for how their words resonate with their audience. This step requires the sender to know their audience and convey their message clearly and concisely to support understanding. L ANGUAGE matters. Does what they say induce fear? Excitement?

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Being more comfortable with limited audience feedback (such as silence). Presenting to a live audience on-site and a virtual group at the same time. #2. Using features in the technology to increase engagement. Enhancing their visual impact (like their backgrounds, to include lighting). Advocating.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 28, 2022

The Lost City is surprising audiences. I wasn’t sure what to expect when Pamela and I went to the Cinema Carousel to watch the movie. It looked interesting with Sandra Bullock as Loretta and Channing Tatum as Alan (and Dash the cover model). The movie excelled at the laughs.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 7, 2019

Each of the presidents she portrays could help their audience see themselves in the future they were describing. A well-crafted story has the power to give the audience ownership of the idea that is woven into the story. If I were to pick one, it would be the ability to speak to audiences with stories.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 14, 2014

The trouble was many in her audience were literally in the fight of their lives in one way or another: the second bone marrow transplant, a dying sister, a son still in Iraq. I once worked with a leader whose rally cry of the year was, “we’re in the fight of our lives.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 4, 2021

10:15 April’s favorite superpower especially for this audience. Every person has yin and yang. Let’s Talk about the Flux Superpowers. 9:40 Eight superpowers to thrive during uncertainty at work. The one that pulls them all together is “Start with Trust.”

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 7, 2025

Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 4, 2020

Think of the classic rhetoric model wherein Ethos (credibility), Pathos (emotional appeal) and Logos (logic) are deployed to persuade an audience. When you watch a great speaker speak in person, you can adjust your lens to see how he/she appeals to the audience with these different levers.

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

It shares the ways in which we stand above the rest: Club Tattoo has redefined the luxury tattoo and piercing industry by creating a viable lifestyle that reaches a wide audience but maintains a core value system that is innovative and has set a new standard for the tattoo and piercing industry.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 23, 2014

They’ve got ideas and solutions, but your team wants to ensure they’ll have a receptive audience. Do you stay true to who you are, or are you being groomed to be “just like THEM.” They have important news to share. If you’re afraid to share with them, they’ll be reluctant to share with you.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 25, 2021

Be clear about the target audiences and the outcomes you are seeking. Use an image, analogy, or a “word picture” to associate with something already familiar to the audience. . Will your spokespeople or other characters resonate appropriately with the real-life people in your audience? Purposeful. Well crafted.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 30, 2019

Try and be consistent in order to keep your audience waiting for more. This might sound counterintuitive, but the more you give away information and advice that is of genuine benefit to your audience, the more they’ll warm to you and spread the good word. Identify and retain your values. Wrapping up.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

They’re better at changing minds, engaging audiences, and driving action. Maxwell shares everything he’s learned from a lifetime of communication. They’re how teachers teach, policymakers govern, and doctors explain. Even our private thoughts rely on language. But certain words are more impactful than others.

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