Business: Tips to Energize Your Presentations

Tips to Energize Your Presentations

Written by Sandra Schrift

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new people. Be innovative in your approach to seat people differently. Some examples: Use a colorful post it, group by hair color, or place cards. - Use icebreakers. You can ask your audience to say a word that describes their week. Give them something else to talk about other than business when repparttar

meeting breaks. - Setup small groups or dyads to discuss issues. This technique will get your participants to brainstorm with their partner or group.

Coaching point: Forced interaction engages people. What can be more fun?

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Cross Cultural Communication Consultants

Written by Neil Payne

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Training Experience

Through courses and practical experience a cross cultural consultant will have knowledge of training techniques. This will include communication skills, presentation methods, repparttar use of activities and utilization of different technology and media.

Living Abroad

Experience of living abroad, mixing with different cultures, speaking different languages and working in foreign offices is vital for any cross cultural consultant. Without having been exposed to a different culture how can one advise on working effectively with that culture? It is important that this emersion in repparttar 104068 target culture has been to repparttar 104069 extent that repparttar 104070 cross cultural consultant can totally empathise with repparttar 104071 culture and understand its dynamics.

Speaking a Foreign Language

Language carries with it cultural coding. All experts, commentators and linguists are unanimous that without knowledge of repparttar 104072 language repparttar 104073 culture can never be appreciated. A cross cultural consultant will therefore have this insider knowledge not only through living and working in a country but also by using and understanding repparttar 104074 language.

The complexity and diversity of cross cultural challenges in repparttar 104075 international business world is reflected in repparttar 104076 broad knowledge and skills of cross cultural consultants. Drawing on expertise gained through a variety of interrelated fields, repparttar 104077 cross cultural consultant is now truly a specialist of great importance.

Neil Payne is Director of London based cross cultural communications consultancy http://www.kwintessential.co.uk

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