Chapter 12
Chapter 12 - Technique: learning from the best – the X Factor

Learning from the best around and understanding what they are getting right (and wrong), what their strengths are and the ways in which they achieve their impact on the audience is the quickest way of moving your own performance along. A senior executive with whom I’d been working went to a global conference in Hawaii and described seeing presenter after presenter employing the tricks described in this book. She said she’d learned especially about the focused use of passion (not a splurge of enthusiasm so much as a laser ray of energy) and the presence of memorable splashes or strokes of colour.

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