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Desmond Guilfoyle - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Desmond Guilfoyle in an award winning commentator on influence, persuasion and charisma. He has written three books on those subjects and his book 'The Charisma Effect' has been published in seven languages around the globe. His latest book Influence for Leaders at All Levels is endorsed by The Australian Institute of Management
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- Charismatic Communication - Story Telling-The Way to Gain a Greater Share of Heart
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] If you want your audience to act on what you say during a public speaking engagement, then inviting your listeners to experience your content from an emotional perspective can help make it happen. This is where the ability to tell vivid stories can make you shine as a public speaker.
- Charismatic Communication - the Impact of Social Power on Persuasion and Influence
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] When many people think about power, the types of power they usually envisage are physical power, monetary power, or some other form of coercive power that renders others more compliant or yielding. And so, feelings of powerlessness can often emerge as we lament about our levels of dependence and reliance on others. In this brief article you will encounter a different perspective on power - a perspective that has the potential to place you at "cause" in respect to exercising personal power, rather than being at "effect" and viewing yourself as a vassal of those who have more authority or physical bearing.
- Charismatic Communication - How Self-Focus and Narcissism Destroys Your Potential As a Leader
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] Social commentators and communication gurus often lament that people ecology (empathy, interest, curiosity in others and the spirits of equality and fraternity) has been replaced by fragmentation of communities into cliques and clans which have little interest in anyone outside their own physical, ideological or socio-economic territories. However, for the leader who wishes to generate appeal and influence across boundaries people ecology is a key building block.
- Vintage Watches - How Conservation, Restoration Or Refurbishment Affects Values
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Jewelry-Diamonds] The vintage watch market seems to operate not so much on the ethics of conservation, restoration and preservation of historical integrity, but on the economics of supply and demand as it applies to conserved, restored and indeed refurbished technology. In many cases it's 'opinion' that informs the choice of what to do with a vintage watch and while there are as many opinions as there are people, some opinions carry more weight financially than others.
- Charismatic Communication - a Lesson For Erring Ummers - Kicking the Habit of Errs and Umms
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] Umming and erring are part of what is called powerless speech: poweless in the sense that if the umms and errs appear in a patterned way the audience is likely to notice the pattern, become increasingly agitated about it and become much less focussed on the content and message of the speech. The are numerous remedies proffered by professionals to overcome this habit and many of them reinforce the behaviour rather than allow erring ummers to kick it.
- Charismatic Communication - Triggering the "I - Me" Response in Your Audience
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] Rarely do charismatic communicators reveal the arrogant signatures of modern day prophets, or the stroppy rhetoric and behaviours of those who claim to have discovered the rock of truth. Rather, they act more as guides to higher and better ground, paying homage and attention to prevailing values and beliefs. They use the soft music of persuasion in place of the head-banging lyrics of self-righteousness, coercion and intimidation. One rule of thumb in Charismatic Communication is the 10 'You' to 1 'I' rule to fully engage an audience
- Charismatic Communication - Immunise Your Audience Against Attacks From Your Competitors Or Opponent
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] Immunisation theory owes much to the medical practice of vaccines and innoculation, and just as it has saved countless lives in this virus-infested world, rhetorical immunisation can provide a superb defence against incoming propaganda and mind viruses. Immunisation works by introducing a small and controlled amount of a virus into the body. In effect, it amounts to providing crucial intelligence about an enemy's offensive capacity, and it allows the body to use that intelligence to build up strong defences against the particular viral profile.
- Charismatic Communication - How High is Your Eye-Q
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] We do indeed reveal our soul (temperament or emotional state) through our eyes and we know that other human beings have cottoned on to it since the times of the early Greeks. It is through the eyes that we truly reveal who we are.
- Charismatic Communication - Getting an Audience Quickly to Yes!
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] One of the secrets of powerful public speaking is the art of getting people on your side as quickly as possible. One way in which you can create instant rapport with large and small audiences is by the judicious use of what are called 'Yes Sets'.
- Restoring Vintage Watches - Do You Opt For Dial Restoration?
[Home-and-Family:Crafts-Hobbies] With vintage watches, a dial restoration may devalue the watch. This article outlines the dos and don'ts of dial restoration.
- Charismatic Communication - How to Add Power to Your Media Interviews - Second in a Series
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] Because of the increasingly shoddy way in which so-called news is collected and disseminated, it behooves any spokesperson to be aware of the dangers inherent in submitting to a media interview. In this, the second in a series of articles on interview technique for media spokespersons, offers a range of techniques to ensure your message gets heard and accurately reported.
- Charismatic Communication - How to Add Power to Your Media Interviews - First of a Series
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] Media exposure is a double-edged sword. It can allow you to cut through the layers of distance and make a direct connection with your target public. But, in media interviews if you don't pay careful attention to what you say and how you say it that sword may become the thing upon which you fall.
- Tips For Buying a Vintage Watch Through Cyber Dealerships and On-Line Auctions
[Home-and-Family:Crafts-Hobbies] Buying a vintage watch on-line can be fraught with difficulties. Fake watches, 'Frankenwatches' where so called authentic watches are made up on assorted non-authentic parts, inauthentic watches and plain lemons pervade the vintage cybermarket. In this article, advice is offered to neophytes.
- Charismatic Communication - How to Do Board Presentations - Part Two
[Business:Presentation] You have approximately thirty seconds to four minutes (depending on which research you rely on) to establish an initial relationship with your board. These first few valuable minutes of the encounter will determine the degrees of attention members will be willing to invest on your presentation and whether they choose to actively process what you have to say. Opening statements in board presentations are crucial: Design a powerful opening statement.
- Charismatic Communication - How to Do Board Presentations - Part One
[Business:Presentation] Knowing how to effectively present to a board is a key skill that all up and coming executives need to possess. Convincing and persuasive board presentations can give your career a shot in the arm.
- How Much Do You Lose When You Buy a New Omega
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Jewelry-Diamonds] Will I Remember My Omega Coaxial in a Future life? As a collector of vintage watches, particularly Omega Constellations, I have become accustomed to values increasing over time. It isn't guaranteed of course, but I may well see the bottom fall out of my pants before I see the bottom fall out of the quality vintage watch market.
- Collecting Vintage Omegas - Omega Constellations That Don't Break the Bank
[Home-and-Family:Crafts-Hobbies] Vintage watches, particularly Omega watches have dramatically increased in price over the past two years. However, there are some Omega watches that are still extremely good value, if not undervalued. This article reviews the later Omega Constellation series and highlights their investment and collectibility potential.
- Charismatic Communication - Ten Tips on Increasing the Retention Rate of Your Speeches
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] Many speakers are unaware of how their words actually work to make their speeches unmemorable. This article reviews key actions a speaker can take to improve memory retention of their speeches.
- Omega Watches - Do Refinished Dials Reduce the Value of Your Investment?
[Home-and-Family:Crafts-Hobbies] As Omega vintage watches become more accessible and popular through the globalisation of the vintage watch market, more and more restored watches are coming on to the market to cater for demand. In this article the author reviews some key considerations when considering a redialed or original dialled Omega.
- Charismatic Communication - Conceptual Entrapment - How Metaphor Governs Our Lives (Part 2)
[Business:Presentation] Metaphors that are deeply embedded in our culture are relatively easy to identify because of the number of linguistic markers associated with them. In this article you will encounter a conceptual metaphor that has the power to hijack rational and reasonable behaviour.
- A Collector's Guide to Buying Vintage Watches
[Home-and-Family:Crafts-Hobbies] The comeback of the mechanical watch has drawn out all sorts of insects from under their rocks. The pursuit of one's passion for old timepieces will inevitably lead to numerous encounters with rogue repairers who charge house prices for inferior work, linear decendents of horse theives who palm off fakes as the real thing, Doctor Frankensteins who create sought-after models from parts of other watches, the usual bevy of shonks, crooks and tricksters out to convince the gullible and the unwary to swipe their well worn credit cards. In this article you will discover some important defences against such practices
- Charismatic Communication - Conceptual Entrapment - How Metaphor Governs Our Lives
[Business:Presentation] Researchers have built up a formidable body of linguistic research that proposes that deep metaphoric concepts govern what you perceive, how you negotiate the world and how you communicate with people. They prescribe the way you function right down to the minutiae of daily life. Knowing how metaphor governs the perceptions of audiences is an essential tool in charismatic communication creating.
- Charismatic Communication - Words That Lose Hearts Part 3
[Business:Workplace-Communication] INCREDULITY CREEP - Recall those conversations or speeches you've heard where your initial feelings about the speakers were positive but the longer they went on, the less believable you found them. Give your unconscious mind a pat on the back, because it was well and truly on the case. It was most likely picking up a host of linguistic cues that denote lack of commitment, the possibility of deception, and other credulity stretching devices.
- Charismatic Communication - Words and Emotions
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] A speech or appeal without emotion is like a Car without an Engine. People may well like its outlines, but it isn't going to take them anywhere Media research reinforces how emotions drive viewing and listening choices in selected audiences in radio and television. Even 'Hate Radio', as we know it, gains its audiences by pressing the emotional Hot Buttons of targeted audiences: outrage buttons, disgust buttons, anger buttons, despair buttons, particularly in upper demographics.
- Charismatic Communication - Words That Lose Hearts - What I'm Saying Is
[Business:Workplace-Communication] You're often grossly inadequate to the task of hiding your prejudices, foibles, misgivings and desires. You truly are your message and attempts to hide the truth can be uncovered in language. Most people have had a lifetime in both being deceptive and detecting deception.
- Charismatic Communication - Words That Lose Hearts - Part 2 Unconscious Leakage
[Business:Workplace-Communication] OOPS, WRONG PRIORITIES - The executive in charge of your conscious mind has to go to lunch sometimes, or may otherwise be occupied. Review the following quote and you may begin to wonder if the CEO of this speaker's conscious mind hadn't taken a week's holiday: "I put everything on the line for this chance to show what I was really made of: my reputation, my job, my house, my financial future, the kid's welfare, the man I've have been married to for fifteen years.
- Charismatic Communication - Discovering and Building a Mutual Space With Your Audience - Part Two
[Business:Presentation] Inclusion and consensus-building are vital in gaining attributions of charisma and developing followers. Followers in the workplace are people who subscribe to your vision; who will invest energy, patience, trust, emotion and dedication in you and your goals. Emotional attachment to your vision and supporting values is essential if you want people to work as a team towards the missions you establish.
- Charismatic Communication - Discovering and Building a Mutual Space With Your Audience - Part One
[Business:Presentation] What currency do you need to use to purchase attention and a fair hearing from your audience? The currency comes in three denominations In this article, one of two, author explores the groundwork that must be done prior to a persuasion attempt.
- Charismatic Communication - the Latent Power of Not
[Business:Presentation] Hot button words like 'free', 'sex', 'you', 'New', etc., have long been known to evoke attention. What is not generally known is that there are a suite of words that are linguistic markers for gaining agreement at the unconscious level. In this article, one of a series, author reviews what is known as 'tactical negation' - a powerful technique for creating rapport and agreement with audiences.
- Charismatic Communication - the Importance of Mega-Framing
[Business:Presentation] Mega-framing describes Strategic or psychological framing and underpins the art of managing perception. It takes in the 'big picture' rather than detail. It may be an overarching theme that enjoins or describes the detail in your presentation, or it may link all your points to a lesson, a purpose or a moral.
- The Three Outsiders Who Rescued the Swiss Watch Industry
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Jewelry-Diamonds] It took a doctor, an engineer and a retailer to bring fresh insights into the ailing Swiss watch industry of the late 1970s. If it wasn't for these three men the glorious traditions of watchmaking in Switzerland may have become a thing of the past.
- Charismatic Communication - the Seven Keys to a Charismatic Voice
[Business:Presentation] The voice is one of the most valuable, albeit neglected, facets of image building. As an oratorical tool, it gives form, colour and meaning to what we say. In this article the author reviews the key variables of building a powerful vocal identity
- Charismatic Communication - Ten Tips For Building and Maintaining Credibility
[Business:Workplace-Communication] Some people imagine they carry credibility somewhere on their person. If that were the case you'd have most of the politicians and half of the CEO's around the world lining up for credibility implants! Credibility isn't something you have. It's an honorific title bestowed on you by others. It is the end result of people placing their trust in you, and this is an important point to acknowledge and embrace. Credibility is earned when you adequately satisfy criteria for expertise and engender trust through building meaningful relationships with those you seek to persuade.
- Why on Earth Would You Buy a Vintage Omega Constellation
[Home-and-Family:Crafts-Hobbies] The article explores how some very clever sleight-of-mouth marketing has contributed to the resurgence of mechanical watches. The author concludes that many of the current swanky brands are not a patch on earlier Omegas and are basically a waste of money
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