My friends love to bring me to bars and “people watch”. Why? Because with my training in body language, I describe what is really being said by the people around us. I describe whether or not a girl is interested in the guy talking to her. I figure out how well the couple at the [...]
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It amazes me how many bad handshakes are out there. In my last post, I talked about how a good handshake plays an important part in job interviews and first impressions. But what exactly constitutes a good or bad handshake? While our nation continues to recover from the latest economic crisis, many Americans are still out looking for a job. Some have only lost their job recently while others have been unemployed for over a year. Job interviews are never as easy as we’d like them to be, and with so much on the line [...] Please visit Affluent Magazine’s Web site and read my article “Communications 101 for Managers”. As I’ve discussed in previous posts, it’s important in your presentation to have a balanced mix of what your audience wants to hear and what they need to hear. It is sometimes difficulat for presenters to distinguish the difference between the two – because it’s all interesting to us! So to help you find the “want to knows” here is a small (and growing) list of ideas. Please keep in mind, the “want to knows” are not necessarily the steps, processes, or action items. Instead, a “want to know” is the picture you paint of how their life will be if they implement your suggestions. You have to make the end-result crystal clear in their minds in order for them to even consider listening to you action plan. Read through the list and see if you have any “want to know” you’d like to add… Recently my article “Being a Bad Leader: 5 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Abilities Through Communication” was featured in Training Magazine Online. Click here to read the article! The Strategic Communicator Blog is now featured on Alltop, a wonderful website that compiles top blogs by categories. Naturally, this blog is featured in the “Speaking” catagory. Thanks Alltop! Thank you to Mary Cantando for featuring me in the Woman’s Advantage Business Calendar. It’s nice to be featured next to these wonderful women. Click here if you’d like to purchase a copy.
Shari Alexander featured in Woman't Advantage Business Calendar In Part One of this series, I discussed how to gauge if your audience thought you did a good job when you spoke, or if they are simply being polite. Another source people use to determine if the audience enjoyed the speech or not is evaluation sheets (or as Alan Weiss calls them “smile sheets”). While I [...] Too often presenters are trying to get feedback on their presentations from either unreliable or pointless sources. Here are a few pros and cons to the usual feedback sources. People talking to you at the end of a presentation. Usually, right after a presentation, you will have a few people come up to you, shake your [...] |
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