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HOW ONE SOUND BITE CAN SHATTER AN IMAGE |
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By Cherie Kerr on
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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If You Can’t Say Anything Nice…
Since I teach communication skills, and am particularly interested in establishing, building and maintaining rapport, I pay close attention to whether those people we come in contact with—even minimally—are those with whom we leave a good impression of ourselves. Since I also own a P.R. firm, I am intensely cautious when coaching my clients—after all, one wrong sound bite on the air or in public and he or she can .....
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Study the Stars to Become One Yourself |
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By Cherie Kerr on
Monday, March 30, 2009
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Last entry I promised to give you some tips and tasks to do that would be fun, all geared to make you a better speaker and communicator. I am going to give you one tip and one task today.
When I teach my ExecuProv classes, I use many unorthodox approaches to get people to use the best of what they’ve got in the way of talent; their talent. This is a fun assignment for me because so many people don’t even know that the talent they have even exists. In fact, they’re often shocked when I show them how they have wonderfully enhanced their presentation style after having incorporated a suggested nuance or affection, whether that is through body language, voice or expression.
Adding a little “trick or secret” is what the improvisational comedy actor (and those taking on a ...
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26th Anniversary |
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By Cherie Kerr on
Friday, February 27, 2009
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As ExecuProv prepares for its 26 year anniversary later this year, I cannot help but reflect back on how this company started—how quite by accident—it came to be.
Since many do not know that story, I will share it now.
I had (and still have) a Public Relations firm, KerrPR. It was not unusual in the early 80s, nor is it now, for me to accompany clients to broadcast interviews; to help them prepare for press conferences (and be on site to coach them shortly before they were to take to the lectern, microphone, whatever…), and also to help ready them for other live presentations like stockholders’ meetings and other events where public speaking skills had to be top notch.
As a bystander, I was witness to one disaster after another. Many had poor onstage performance skills, others were terrified. I had the same reaction as when I was a young mother in similar awkward situations—like when one of my kid fell off the ...
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