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The other day, I received a phone call by a prospect who explicitly asked for a two-day teambuilding event for his team of directors. A novelty. I always thought that teambuilding events were limited to fancy activities like jumping off tall trees, canoeing in ferocious rivers or bowling enriched by a nebulous Karaoke session. My new client . . . → Read More: Can Public Speaking Help Build A Team? 
Today, I had the great honor to clean windows at home. I’m totally convinced that all of us just love window cleaning. What a great, relaxing, calory consuming free time activity – marvellous! As a good househusband I went straight for the special window cleaning spray in the cabinet below the kitchen sink. After I had learned . . . → Read More: Will It Ever Be Clean? 
There are many magical questions. Magical solution-oriented questions starting with three letters… h-o-w. Magical rhetorical questions like “How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?” The most magical question of all magical questions, “Will you marry me?” When you step onto the field of self-improvement another magical question will become vital part of . . . → Read More: Have You Ever Asked This Magical Question? 
This week I received the third request in one month for one-on-one public speaking trainings. Like in the other two cases I kindly rejected the offer. Why? My experience tells me there are two rigorous reasons why one-on-one public speaking trainings cannot work well. First, subjectivity. There is nothing more subjective in the world than our perception. The . . . → Read More: One-On-One Is A Dead-End Road 
The same identical situation – always. A seminar participant gives the first speech, sits down and awaits with curiosity the first evaluation of the day. Me and the others start to give positive and constructive feedback. It takes no longer than 60 seconds till the feedback receiver begins to comment on the feedback received. This is . . . → Read More: No Feedback On Feedback 
The Managing Director of Lidl in Spain once revealed to me that he just couldn’t understand why Spanish people preferred to shop at premium retailers like Caprabo and spend significantly more than they would spend at his Lidl stores. His only explanation was that they probably wanted to avoid being seen shopping at the Lidl discounter stores. Image, brand, . . . → Read More: Be Lidl! 
May 26 1999. The Champions League Final between Bayern Munich and Manchester United. What a night. What a game. What a moment when ManU stole the Bavarian pride in the Nou Camp stadium in just three minutes. I was there when David Beckham and his comrades passed our block on their victory lap and smiled as no one . . . → Read More: Kick It Like Beckham? 
On December 7 2009, Shakira spoke about the work of her charity, Barefoot Foundation, at Oxford University’s world-famous Oxford Union. I am a great, great fan of this speech, so I share with you some of Shakira’s rhetorical highlights from my point of view. Enjoy!
__________ “Thank you Oxford, and thank you Oxford Union. It is truly an honor and a privilege to . . . → Read More: Shakirhetoric 
Please read my first guest post on the magic of positive and constructive feedback at Conor Neill’s blog, ‘The Rhetorical Journey‘… In this post you will discover how continual positive and constructive feedback can trigger a personal growth process in us based on four steps: deliver, develop, dare, and diversify – The Virtuous Circle . . . → Read More: The Virtuous Circle Of Feedback |
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