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Before you get all excited about how to become a consultant, let’s define what we mean by the word. A consultant is a person with a particular set of skills, expertise, and/or knowledge that other people and businesses pay for the benefit of learning. If you have no specific skills or knowledge, it’ll be hard [...]
It comes down to this. Would you rather glean your consulting education from between the dry pages of a textbook or absorb it through vibrant interviews with leading speakers and consultants, Twitter posts, and daily blog updates? No matter what stage you presently occupy in your consulting career, Jason Hartman’s Speaking of Wealth Show and [...]
Overheard on Main Street in Any Town, America: “I’ve got this great idea for a book.†Whether cold, hard truth based on personal experience or completely fabricated fiction, there’s something down deep in the well of the human spirit yearning to become a writer. We don’t know what or why but it’s there. We know [...]
Trick headline. The first thing to realize about your job security with your consultant career is that you have none – even if you think you do. Once you get to the point where your brain is all right with that, you can move forward without fear. Well, maybe a little bit of fear. The [...]
A recent blog on this website illuminated the dangers of not using humor in your professional speaking presentation, but hitting a funny bone now and then is not the only way to become a better speaker. Here are some other critical areas to pay attention to. 1. Overuse of PowerPoint: PowerPoint is a great tool. [...]
We might be going out on a limb here but we can’t think of a single good reason to present a speech without humor. It’s a basic law of effective speaking. We’re not saying you need to stand up there for an hour and keep the one-liners and jokes flowing like Jerry Seinfeld – you [...]
According to Alan Weiss, Ph.D., and long time professional speaker, a public speaking career career is harder now than it has ever been over the past ten years. The reasons are plentiful: Enron, WorldCom, 9/11, a declining stock market, and soaring foreclosures. These factors and others cause some people to throw in the towel but [...]
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