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What can an actor teach you about communicating (more) authentically?

In preparation for our next teleclass, I thought I would ask our guest Simon Heath the tough questions – like ‘who do you think you are?’ and ‘why should anyone listen to you?’ I mean, he’s an actor (among other things) – don’t they ‘lie’ for a living?

Well, rather than paraphrase, I thought you’d want to see his answers in his own words…

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Nothing Short of Exceptional

How many times has someone given you a compliment, and you just shrugged it off, saying “It’s nothing”? Well, maybe it’s not nothing after all…

Hack into your Essential Message!

Hack into your Essential Message!?

Hack into your Essential Message In the last Essential Message monthly teleclass, my guest Mike Murray talked about the thinking approach that hackers have to have in order to be successful hackers. He then made the link between the hacker’s thinking approach and the right mindset you need to have in order to be successful at anything.

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What does your Linkedin profile really say about you?

Five years ago, most of us were wondering how the universe would shake up between Facebook and LinkedIn, but today it’s clear that LinkedIn has emerged — true to its roots — as the primary platform for professional networking. While Facebook is doing all it can to expand in both social and professional arenas, it understandably continues to be defined as the more social of the social networks.

So are people using Linkedin effectively as the professional platform it’s intended to be? (More importantly, are you?) Browsing through hundreds of LinkedIn profiles, I see most people are making the same mistake on Linkedin as they do in other professional environments — and most of those mistakes stem from not getting the balance right between overly personal and, (more often), overly professional.

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Impact Statements & Persuasion Drivers

How do you cultivate an ability to connect with others in person, on the web, or through your marketing materials? How do you know how compelling your message will be to other people? Or how your team will respond to your leadership?

In this video, I teach you a simple concept that will help you become a better communicator, a more effective marketer and a more powerful leader.

Leave a comment, and let me know what you think!