How To Give A World Class Presentation: 10 Tips Backed By Research
actice in front of a large audience if possible. Rhetorical questions make your arguments more persuasive. Use a lot of imagery. You can create an instant feeling of familiarity with an audience by using the word "we." There are a number of tips for being making a good first impression, being more persuasive and being more charismatic. Stand up straight to feel powerful and confident. We like people who are prideful. Guys, don't be modest. Trying to seem smart makes…
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A Quick Way To Boost Your Confidence, According To Research
ok at your resume. Reviewing your credentials can remind you how talented you are and induce a "reverse stereotype threat" that boosts confidence. Via Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To: I immediately think about my research credentials, a trick I developed after discovering that getting people to think about aspects of themselves that are conducive to success can actually be enough to propel them to a top performance and prevent…
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Can you turn stress into excitement?
ny studies have shown we easily confuse our feelings: Ariely thinks it might have something to do with "misattribution of emotions": "Sometimes we have an emotion and we don't know where it's coming from, so we kind of stick it on something that seems sensible." The rush from a Red Bull and a roller coaster can make us believe we're in love with the person next to us. We can even fall in love with someone trying to kill us…
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4 Scientific Steps To Facing Your Fears
his book The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver, Robert Biswas-Diener shows how we can use science and research to be more brave. He explains that there are two factors to courage: Fear Willingness to act They can both go up or down. Courage = "Willingness to act" divided by "Fear." To increase bravery you must either: Reduce fear. Boost willingness to act. Do both of the above. What steps can we take in the moment to…
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What seven factors make companies more productive and employees happier?
a The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work: Our analyses of the 12,000 “event of the day” narratives we received, along with participants’ self-rated inner work lives on those days, revealed seven major catalysts that galvanize work on projects and inner work life... 1) Setting clear goals. People have better inner work lives when they know where their work is heading and why it matters... 2) Allowing autonomy. Setting clear goals can backfire…
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Here’s How Persuasive You Are When You Swear
ry: This experiment examined the effects of judicious swearing on persuasion in a pro-attitudinal speech. Participants listened to one of three versions of a speech about lowering tuition that manipulated where the word “damn” appeared (beginning, end, or nowhere). The results showed that obscenity at the beginning or end of the speech significantly increased the persuasiveness of the speech and the perceived intensity of the speaker. Obscenity had no effect on speaker credibility. Source: "Indecent influence: The positive effects of…
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The Best Way To Motivate People
phasize forward progress -- not for the sake of the project, but for your team members. Harvard's Teresa Amabile's research found that nothing is more motivating than progress in meaningful work and nothing more taxing than setbacks. Via The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work: This pattern is what we call the progress principle: of all the positive events that influence inner work life, the single most powerful is progress in meaningful work;…
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How To Coach The Best Performance Out Of People, According To Research
xplanation, demonstration, imitation, correction, and repetition." Break down proper technique, quickly correct errors and get them to repeat until it's second nature. Via The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How: Gallimore and Tharp recorded and coded 2,326 discrete acts of teaching. Of them, a mere 6.9 percent were compliments. Only 6.6 percent were expressions of displeasure. But 75 percent were pure information: what to do, how to do it, when to intensify an activity. One of Wooden's…
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