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How to Start a Presentation: Engage your Audience from the First Slide to the Last
I've been there: your presentation is due soon. Probably your boss is awaiting an update on an important project. Maybe your client is...
Marketing Audit – The Definitive Guide (includes how-to and example template)
I will concentrate specifically on digital marketing audits and tell you everything I know. A marketing audit is a great opportunity to provide learning opportunities to your client, for instance, by organizing workshops, coaching and training classes in the areas that require improvement.
The Truth About Presentation & Public Speaking Coaching
Today, I want to take you behind the scenes, behind the closed doors where executive presentation and public speaking coaching happens....
02020 My Year In Review
Every year since 02014, I’ve published an honest and public review of the year. A certain degree of fear is vital (wear your mask, wash your hands, avoid indoor spaces, stay away from crowds), worrying about your loved ones is caring, but too much worry can also be paralyzing, In early March, as the pandemic was still scarcely understood in Europe, I was filled with anger: why were we doing nothing?
Open Training: How To Teach and Learn Anything Together With Your Clients
Open Training is a way to deliver training experiences for my clients, creating personalized training just for them. In this process, we get to know each other, run experiments, and solve real business problems. The outcome is better group dynamics, higher individual satisfaction, and immediate business results.
Customized Training: How My Customers Taught Me To Stop Shouting
The trait most likely to bring you success in marketing is listening. Lucky me… My customers heard: “Matteo is open to be our coach, to be on our side, to help us overcome the marketing, communication, and productivity issues we are facing right now.”
20 Virtual Presentation Tips in Under 7 Minutes
Zoom-fatigue: spending time communicating in front of screens can be stressful. But it gets easier the more you feel confident, in control...
The Best Free Presentation Skills Training Resources Online (Definitive 2020 Guide)
We all struggle when it comes to presentations. Communicating clearly is generally a challenge. And presentations add to this daily...
Every presentation is about change. Learn how to transform your audience.
"Every presentation worth doing has just one purpose. To make a change happen." Seth Godin In my courses I use a lot of icons and this is...
Sales Presentation Training: How to Transform a Dry Sales Presentation Into a Rich Sales Conversation
Have you ever sold anything while presenting? I'm serious. You are on stage, the spotlight is on you, you are talking. Can your client buy...
02019: My Year in Review
This article is an exercise in openness. It's not (merely) a way for me to show off what I achieved in 02019. And you're not supposed to...
Business Storytelling: The Definitive Guide (2021 ready)
In this article you will learn everything you need to know about Business Storytelling. The science of storytelling can be a powerful tool in the hands of business people, as it empowers them to transcend the confines and tropes typical of business speak, and to start breaking boundaries with a powerful narrative to support their message.
How To Setup Your Office, Desk and Computer For Maximum Productivity
Today I would like to share my very own productivity routine. I've refined it by reading about other people's working habits and I'm...
My Fully Customized Standing Desk Setup – Video
Why I created my perfect motorized standing desk and why I want you to have one too. Go get your own Integral Desk.
How to Market Your Movie With ZERO Budget
"How would I market a movie on no budget?" I got asked this question on Quora, and it got me thinking. What can a filmmaker (or a...
Integral Desk: the Standing Desk Made by a Geek and an Artist
Watch the video! Or if you would rather have the text version of this post, please read on. Enough with the IKEA mentality "I live...
Confessions of an Entertainment Marketing Consultant
A quick FAQ about stuff that consultants know and do, that maybe you would like to learn. Why should I bother reading this? Aren't...
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soft skills
Soft skills is a term often associated with a person's "EQ" (Emotional Intelligence Quotient), the cluster of personality traits, social...
team-building
Team building is the use of different types of team interventions that are aimed at enhancing social relations and clarifying team...
students
A student (also pupil) is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term (or its cognate...
data
Data ( , , or ) is a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables; restated, pieces of data are individual pieces of...
workshop
classroom training courses, of short duration, for training on specific topics with a typical duration of 1 day
facial expressions
A facial expression is one or more motions or positions of the muscles beneath the skin of the face. These movements convey the emotional...
stage
In theatre or performance arts, the stage (sometimes referred to as the deck in stagecraft) is a designated space for the performance of...
confident
Confidence is generally described as a state of being certain either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of...
Coaching
Coaching is training or development in which a person called a "coach" supports a learner in achieving a specific personal or professional...
talks
Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from...
keynote
A keynote in literature, music, or public speaking is a talk that establishes the main underlying theme. In corporate or commercial...
Sales Pitch
In selling technique, a sales presentation (or sales pitch) is a line of talk that attempts to persuade someone or something, with a...
story arc
A story arc is an extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as television, comic books, comic strips,...
pitch
Pitch is a perceptual property that allows the ordering of sounds on a frequency-related scale. Pitches are compared as "higher" and...
Audience
An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature (in which they are called "readers"),...
come out
Coming out of the closet, or simply coming out, is a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and asexual LGBT+ people's...
LGBTQ
LGBT is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the...
diversity
Multiculturalism refers to the historical evolution of cultural diversity within a jurisdiction, incarnated by its selection policies and...