Public speaking is one of the greatest fears people have. Try doing it as an Introvert!
In this episode George talks about introversion, particularly as it affects public speaking. He also provides a number of hard learnt ways an introvert can effectively prepare for and deliver their public speaking engagements and presentations most effectively.
This podcast is brought to you by:
Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and George’s 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
The backbone of your work is the process you repeatedly use to deliver a product or service to your customers. And the experience your customer has in engaging with that process will cause them to form either a positive opinion about you or your department or company, or form a negative opinion. In this podcast, George talks about how to make sure those processes work for you and help you make the experience of your customers the best it can be.
Even if you are an employee in a company, this is relevant to you.
This podcast is brought to you by:
Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and George’s 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
Imagine for a moment you have to write a proposal for someone. It doesn’t matter what the situation is, if you have to present an idea for change to solve some problem for someone, you will be presenting a proposal.
In this podcast I’m NOT going to talk about how to present your proposal.
What I do want to talk about is how you go about getting the right information so that when you deliver your proposal, it is perfectly in sync with what they want, and how they want to receive it.
This podcast is brought to you by Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and George’s 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
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No matter what you might think of Apple products or Steve Jobs himself, there is absolutely no doubt that we can learn much from the way he presented Apple products to the world. Steve Jobs was remarkable, he was the master of creating and delivering a memorable event. In the process of persuading his customers to buy his products, he entertained, informed and educated the audience. Could we possibly learn from how Steve Jobs approached presentations?
That’s what this podcast is about - the principles that Steve Jobs used in his presentations.
We’ve also added two more unusual English words - Sonder and Mizpah.
This podcast is brought to you by: Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and George’s 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
The English language can be quite difficult to grasp, especially some of the unusual words it contains.
So here is a little education on some unusual words from our English language and an expansion on our linguistic arsenal with the following:
Quire, Agelast, Octothorpe, Meldrop, Pot-valor, Jentacular, Nudiustertian, Tittynope, Winklepicker, Kakorrhaphiophobia, Halpace, Bibble, Mixology
This podcast is brought to you by:
Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and George’s 9 Skills Factory professionals' education platform.
Target fixation is deadly on a racetrack and on the road. The concept also relates to situations where you are presenting ideas in order to influence a person or audience that you don’t necessarily have rapport with yet.
The key to dealing with it is the expansion of your conscious awareness - visually and mentally - a challenging yet extremely beneficial skill to develop if you want to be your best as an influencer and presenter.
This podcast is brought to you by:
Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and George's 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
Do you get to your pitch too soon? Do you have the right foundations in place so your audience considers your idea fully before they make a decision about their commitment to it? George talks about what it takes to effectively get resistant audiences ready for your change idea presentation or pitch.
This podcast is brought to you by: Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and George's 9 Skills Factory professionals' education platform.
A big fat welcome to the 2021 new year, recorded on new years day in this podcast George talks about the opportunities that can arise from tough times such as those bought on by the COVID19 pandemic.
This podcast is brought to you by:
Soarent Vision, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
In this podcast, George talks about how COVID-19 and the response to the pandemic forced his company and its customers to take a long look at how they were approaching professional development, find the strengths of the old model and incorporate those into a new and more effective framework for professional development. Yes, it does require a little more attention to make sure circumstances are right and the recipient company has the right culture and attitudes towards education.
This podcast is brought to you by:
Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
In this podcast, George talks about the biggest barrier to business improvement and self development - the system people work within. He also leaves you with a simple, yet vitally important, 5-step framework he used for decades as a Manager to overcome the barriers created by the organisational system.
This podcast is brought to you by:
Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
In this podcast, George talks about how to structure your evidence in a presentation so that you are able to raise the likelihood that your audience buys into it. Ultimately you want to structure that evidence in a way that matches the evidence strategy of the audience.
This podcast is brought to you by: Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
In this podcast, George talks about the way you go about pitching your solutions or ideas for change to senior people in organisations - executive teams, CEOs, boards etc. the big take away for you will be this - don’t ask for permission.
This podcast is brought to you by:
Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
In this podcast, George talks about the psychology of momentum from a practical perspective. He explains how you can go about maintaining interest and momentum for many change or initiative you might be leading.
This podcast is brought to you by:
Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
In this podcast, George talks about stakeholder engagement as a change leader - when to engage, how to engage, how to develop a one-on-one communications strategy for engaging a stakeholder; the things you need to know to enhance your ability as a leader of change.
This podcast is sponsored by:
Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
We have equality in one thing only - how much time we have each day. Yet the way people approach time and use that time varies greatly.
One of the main focal points of any manager when it comes to time is optimising their productivity, yet there is a consistent tendency for us to experience time compression as urgent tasks get dumped on our laps.
What do we do about that?
Here are some tips from someone who has been able to avoid most of this imposed time compression over his 45 year working career and stay focused on achieving results without buckling under undue stress.
This podcast is sponsored by:
Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
Getting people to work effectively as teams is a talent that can be learnt. And once you understand what it is that holds people in the storming phase of their team development, then you can use some simple strategies to raise the likelihood they get through that phase quickly and become a high performance team. In this podcast George shares some strategies he learnt during his military and special operations days and has used successfully over the past 3 decades of his working life.
This podcast is sponsored by:
Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
If you are a leader, who do you put first - yourself or your people? The true test of this is when things are not going so well; during business downturns, during pandemic isolations, when you don’t have sufficient equipment for everyone, when office space is limited. Leaders eating last is a lesson that relates to many things associated with what you do as a leader in both good and bad situations.
This podcast is sponsored by:
Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
Everyone is challenged in getting others to change their behaviour at some time in their life. It can be as a parent or as a leader or as a business owner; doesn’t matter what the situation is we all have to work through the issues of this at some time.
As you’ll learn in this podcast, if you are going to have any degree of success in this endeavour you must understand the principles of reinforcement. It’s these four principles that George will run you through that just might be a turning point for you as an influencer of others.
It’s also a podcast every parent should hear too.
This podcast is sponsored by:
Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
Culture change … one of the most difficult things to achieve at a conscious level. Leaders and managers can definitely influence culture, but doing it intentionally and in a specific direction requires some thought and a lot of awareness of what it is that underpins culture.
Here’s some tips from George that have served him well in driving culture change in organisations and teams he’s worked in and led over the past 30 years.
This podcast is sponsored by:
Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
The ability to execute an idea is way more important than the ability to develop a plan if your goal is to achieve success in anything.
Many people are great at putting plans together, where the separation occurs is when they need to turn those plans into concrete achievements.
In this podcast George plays an extract from his business execution skills program and touches on the psychology of execution and how it differs from project management.
This podcast is sponsored by:
Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.
