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Companies of all sizes are starting to bring in motivational speakers to help rev up the energy levels and enthusiasm among employees. But motivational speakers can benefit areas way outside increased productivity in the business sector, motivational speakers are good for everything from drawing supporters for political campaigns to inspiring spiritual growth.

Most people don’t particularly like being told what to do and how to do their jobs better. And yet, Motivational speakers make a great deal of money doing just that, and people love them for it. It moves some people to tears. They become lifelong fans and purchase all the motivational speakers’ publications. What is the motivational speaker’s secret to telling people their business and gaining disciples? Having a good laugh. Several motivational speakers have left their mark on society by being not only inspiring, but funny.

Milt Abel has been a motivational speaker, who might aptly be called a standup comic as well, for over twenty years. His venues and clients are as varied as the countless anecdotes he tells, ranging from cruise ships, to university campuses, to corporate events. His motivational approach is subtle and unassuming; Abel focuses on observations and experiences with his wife and children. His jokes aren’t critical, divisive or derisive. Few people want to be motivated by a speaker who is mocking or targeting them. Abel suggests positive change through stories that are inoffensive and hilarious, making people more will to let their guard down and listen to what he says.

Another popular motivational speaker, whose own life is as inspiring as the speeches he gives, is Patch Adams, a man introduced to the world by the film of that name starring Robin Williams. Patch Adams is a physician and founder of The Gesundheit Institute, a free health care facility. He is a physical and emotional healer as well as motivational speaker and funny man who believes that happiness and laughter can do more for a person’s health and wellbeing than anything else. Patch Adams travels the country utilizing his medical knowledge and training as a street clown to make people laugh.

Brad Wilcox is a popular motivational speaker among Christian youth. He attends dozens of Christian youth conferences and conventions inspiring a love for the scriptures and dedication to Christian values through his countless stories that are sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant, and often both.

All of these motivational speakers have different areas of expertise and hope to motivate people in different aspects of their lives, but the common thread, and the secret to their success, is a good dose of humor. It works like preaching, nagging, bribing, and coercing never has and never will.

Motivational speakers (http://www.nationwidespeakers.com/category/3) are entertaining and inspiring for employees, patients, and youth. The author Art Gib is a freelance writer.

Presentation skills are vital to any company that wants to present a good image of their business or present products or services to potential clients or partners. There are numerous providers that offer courses that are designed to help individuals improve their presentation skills. This can be a very positive method of improving presentation skills and because there are a wide variety of different techniques that can be taught by training providers there is a great deal that the participant can learn. This can include plenty of skills and techniques for even the most successful of speakers so that they can also learn from a course.

Many courses will have a component that aims to advise the participants about the theories behind presentation skills and will be the building blocks upon which a person can transform the way in which they relate to other people. There is also a real distinction between the types of presentation skills that can be taught to participants. These skills are generally related to four main sub sections; personal impact; presentation skills; winning practices and media training.

The skills taught in presentation skills training can help people improve their personal impact. This can be extremely effective for people that are extremely knowledgeable on their area of expertise but for some reason struggle to get their knowledge across to their audience in a dynamic way. Presentation skills help improve the ability of a person to have an impact on their audience. Presentation skills can refer to a number of different practical skills as well as speechmaking skills. This can be the ability to set up a good powerpoint presentation or other visual devices.

It can also deal with the clarity of the message and work to improve the intonation and clarity of the individual’s voice. The range of training includes training on how to create a winning pitch. This will work from the concept of the pitch and the organisation of the pitch all the way to vocal techniques that can help improve the presenter’s ability to seal a deal.

There are also training options available for people that want to improve their media skills. This can include the ability to create video footage and other inspiring techniques that make presentations much more exciting.

Presentation skills training is designed to help people improve the clarity of the message that they get across and the impact with which this method is delivered. This can lead to many companies winning more pitches and as a result increasing the profits of the company.

The ability to influence and persuade people to buy in to the ideas that you have is vital. This is what differentiates successful businesses with less successful businesses. Training can help improve the ability to achieve this. It can also be an effective tool in resolving conflict within your company and also encourage harmony within your organisation. This can be extremely beneficial to your company.

Presentation skills are also useful if your company needs to handle media interest and would like to do so with confidence and with competence. This can means that overall a company that can present a good image and demonstrate great presentation skills is more likely to gain and retain clients that want a lasting business relationship.

Shaun Parker is an excellent communicator. He shares his experience to help people that are looking to improve their presentation skills through training. To find out more please visit http://www.speakfirst.co.uk

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and above all accurately so they will be guided by its light.

-Joseph Pulitzer

All of our communication eggs for the 400 Year Project (demonstrating the feasibility and encouraging people to make improvements 20 times faster from 2015 through 2035) were not in the Web site basket: We also planned to create a series of books and articles that would begin sharing helpful information about our project.

One such source of material already existed, and it’s always a good idea to repackage material in new ways that will appeal to different people. Since 1992, I had been analyzing the behaviors of CEOs whose companies grew their stock prices the fastest during the prior three years through an annual series of articles.

This research was the first (to my knowledge) tracking study of CEO best practices, and I had high hopes for what it would reveal. My idea was to locate practices that other company leaders could use to grow 20 times faster than usual.

The study did indeed become a potent source of information. Carol Coles and I used the insights we gained to write about the importance of continuing business model innovation in a later book.

While the CEO tracking study continued, Carol Coles and I asked Robert Metz to assist us in creating a book that would outline a process that almost anyone could use to accomplish 20 times as much in a given area with the same time, effort, and resources. We correctly saw this book as the first major output of the 400 Year Project.

While most people try to write business books to boost their consulting and coaching businesses, our intention was to boost interest in and activity for finding new solutions through the 400 Year Project.

The good news was that we already had such a process that could be adapted for the purpose: the universal problem-solving process that Peter Drucker had noticed that we always used. He had correctly perceived that we had moved past our clients in creating innovative practices.

The key to our effectiveness was a master process that could quickly resolve most problems with superior solutions that no one had ever employed before. In early 1995, Peter began insisting that we take this process and turn it into a universal resource. Otherwise, he was concerned that a tool of immense practical value would be lost, potentially for centuries.

We were flattered by Peter’s high opinion of our work’s potential. The bad news was that Carol and I had no experience with turning processes we used into books.

We turned to Robert Metz to help us. Robert had written a number of investment-related books and had authored one best seller. Robert had helped new authors before and felt confident he could shepherd us through the process.

Having heard a lot about interfering agents and intractable publishers, we asked Robert to advise us on how to get an agent and a publisher. His advice was to simply write the book and then look for a publisher. In this way, we were likely to be able to write a book that contained the content we intended rather than the direction that a publisher wanted us to take.

Beginning around 1997, we started the conceptual development of that book. We needed to lay out a format that people would enjoy using for learning. Early on, we decided to fill the book with as many examples as possible and to make the information accessible to those with many different learning styles.

That approach was quite a challenge because most people have read or experienced relatively little in the way of advanced practices. We had to take the most solid information available and reduce it to tasty bites that contained the essence of the lesson without cloying our readers’ appetites for more.

In one-on-one conversations about the project, it was obvious that people loved specifics and were confused or bored by general principles. But we needed to express general principles, or people wouldn’t know what to do next. What model could we use to get around this problem?

The story of Scheherazade came to mind. She married a king who had executed a string of brides after each wedding night. To stay alive, every night she told her husband a new story that ended in a cliffhanger. She continued to tell the stories for 1001 nights, gave the king three sons, and so avoided execution.

Could we similarly string together a large number of fascinating stories, stories so rewarding that readers would race forward to find the next one? Well, it was worth a try.

Robert, Carol, and I were all accomplished storytellers and had large repertoires of stories we had accumulated from our reading and contacts. We could draw on those resources and see what we could do.

Have you been working on your stories to illustrate what you want others to learn? You’ll need as many as you can when you are ready to use books to help attract attention.

Donald Mitchell is an author of seven books including Adventures of an Optimist and The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution. Read about creating breakthroughs through 2,000 percent solutions and receive tips by e-mail by registering for free at

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The only way to get better at something is to do it. Taking a speech or business communication class will force you to make presentations to audiences of people you don’t know.

Speaking to groups of people that you don’t know can be an extremely hard thing to do. For some it comes naturally but for most of us it’s about as pleasant as getting a tooth pulled. But it doesn’t have to be that way. With most skills that a person develops the old axiom “practice makes perfect” holds especially true. And eventually you might find that you even enjoy giving a presentation.

I’ve always hated giving presentations. I hated it so much that during high school I’d often be absent the day I had to give a speech or presentation. I hated it with a passion. I was always afraid I’d embarrass myself and in school if you do that you still have to show up the next day. Of course most of my fear was self induced.

But from the many speech’s I’ve been forced to give in my life I did manage to learn a couple of lessons. The biggest lesson I have ever learned about giving a presentation actually came in the seventh grade. Our teacher gave us an assignment for a speech that allowed us to pick what we wanted to talk about. For my topic I picked baseball cards. It was my favorite hobby so much so that I worked part time in a sports card shop and spent all my wages on baseball cards. I believe that they were my first ever true love. And when it came time to make my presentation I aced it. I even went beyond my allotted time without realizing it.

I later wondered what was different about that presentation compared to others I’d had to do. Then it dawned on me, I loved my topic and I knew everything about it.

As a small business owner I also love what I do. I love talking to people about what my company does. And I hope that you as a small business owner love what you do because passion can take you a long way. And loving what you do can make that sales presentation go a lot easier. After all you’re just talking about something you love.

My second important lesson came years later while I was in college. To meet my degree requirements I was forced to take the always dreaded speech class. In it I learned to prepare because if you don’t love the subject then you need to know it even better. It will lessen the potential stumbling that might otherwise occur.

But even more importantly it made me get up in front of a group of people I didn’t know. And I had to do it again and again. Naturally I was able to get more comfortable with what I was doing. Later on in my schooling I took Speech two and business communication so that I could stay in practice even though I could have opted for other courses.

I can’t begin to emphasize how important practice is to becoming good at presentations. And practicing in front of friends doesn’t cut it. You need an audience you don’t know. I know for a lot of us going back to school may be a pain but you only need to take speech, not get a degree.

Another way to get regular practice is to volunteer as a guest speaker. I myself periodically volunteer as a guest speaker for one of my former professors who happens to teach small business. A good place to do this would be your local community or junior college where there’s less pressure on you and the professors are more open to people that approach them with such an idea. All you need to do is contact the business department for information. You might even end up liking it. You might dread giving a speech now but with practice you may embrace them.

Cash Miller is an experienced entrepreneur and speaker who has spent over a decade as a small business owner. His years of experience in small business cover many topics. For more small business information you can go to http://www.SmallBusinessDelivered.com

As with all technology, there are positives and negatives. This is evident with the web as a new marketing source. Most products are becoming a fast commodity, even if they were not before. If you are interested in buying a chair, you can quickly search on Google, eBay, or any other major search engine, and you will instantly find all chairs of the kind that you are looking for. You will also know the appropriate price of that style of chair, give or take a few dollars.

This wonderful technology makes it much more difficult for a furniture store to compete in the marketplace. The chair may be selling for much less on the net, because the furniture store has a great deal more overhead to run the business.

In order to overcome the problem of being technologically put out of business, the furniture store will have to start selling the benefits of dealing with the store more than the benefits of buying the individual chair.

Imagine two sales clerks who are approached by a prospect looking for a new chair. Sales clerk number one takes the prospect over to the chair that they are interested in and begins to describe the chair and the price. Armed with information from the web, the prospect knows the prices that are available around the country as well as all the details about the chair. The salesman is in the difficult position of having to either match the online price or lose the sale.

Instead of spending time discussing the chair, salesman two discusses the store. The salesman describes the history of the store, the customer service philosophy of the owners, and how the store stands behind its product. When the prospect and salesman arrive at the demonstration of the chair, the customer now has additional factors to consider when comparing the e-store with the furniture store. For example, the prospect also considers the possibility of effortless returns or exchanges if problems develop after the customer takes the chair home.

The purpose of teaching the salesman to spend extra time with a customer to discuss the store’s long-term relationships with customers is to attempt to educate the buyer and create brand loyalty. Over time, brand loyalty and the desire to work with a store that stands behind their product can overcome many objections, including pricing. Price is always an important element, but in most cases and particularly over time, brand loyalty to a local store is stronger. The key is to make sure that the sale is made based on the store benefits and not the chair.

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