The Fundamentals for Projecting Leadership
- When dealing with words, start with the metrics.
- Learn to speak in less than one minute and begin with your conclusion.
- Always stay within the time.
- Never talk about the time.
- Do not talk about your outline.
- Use fewer words to convey more meaning.
- Avoid connecting words and phrases.
- Speak slowly; pause and pause again: the audience will fill in the blanks.
- Never speak when others are speaking.
- Electronics require the same extreme caution as children and animals on stage.
- Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse: everything is beautiful at the ballet.
- Analysis, not opinion; facts and figures to support the analysis.