by Mary Langan | Nov 9, 2019 | Communication Skills, Doing the Tough Stuff, Media Sales Career |
“Please Sir, I Want Some More” Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens How to Negotiate a Pay Rise More, you can’t ask for more!! Well it didn’t work for Oliver, so are we all doomed as well if we ask for more? Luckily, we’ve moved on from the...
by Mary Langan | Oct 16, 2019 | Communication Skills, Doing the Tough Stuff, Presentation Tips, Presenting Confidently |
How to Banish Public Speaking Nerves and Present with Confidence “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear” Mark Twain It always surprises me how many seemingly confident people really dislike presenting or public speaking. At my...
by Mary Langan | Oct 7, 2019 | Communication Skills, Doing the Tough Stuff, Leadership Skills, Media Sales Career |
Doing the Tough Stuff #2 “A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.” Tim Ferriss In the second of our “Tough Stuff” series, we look at how to have ‘difficult...
by Mary Langan | Sep 17, 2019 | Communication Skills, Doing the Tough Stuff, Leadership Skills, Media Sales Career |
Why Giving and Receiving Feedback is Important (Read time – 4 minutes) In the first of our ‘Tough Stuff’ series, we look at the benefits of giving and receiving feedback. It’s a simple technique that can totally transform both your own, and your...
by Mary Langan | Jun 6, 2017 | Communication Skills, Presentation Tips, Presenting Confidently, Winning Pitch Presentations |
Sales is all about winning the hearts and minds of our audiences. For a sales presentation to be persuasive the audience has to ‘lean in’, not lean back. Unfortunately, PowerPoint – the ‘go to’ sales presentation tool – only encourages the latter. Why rely...
by Mary Langan | Jan 31, 2017 | Communication Skills, Presentation Tips, Presenting Confidently, Public Speaking |
It’s true, speaking to an audience – to a dozen people sat around a table or to a full conference room – can render the most confident person a nervous wreck. Even people in the public eye suffer, and it’s something that Kate Middleton admitted when she gave...
