How Not To Crumble Under Pressure

TED TALKS was created in 1984 with a big mission in mind: to gather the most interesting people in the world, sharing their passion in about 18 minutes. TED stands today as the benchmark for the best presentations. Why? Because the best presentations entail a well-thought storytelling structure that easily sings to the audience. Curly Films - Storytelling Office shares 7 tips you can use in your own business presentations.

The document uses a metaphor of filling a jar with sand, pebbles, and golf balls to represent priorities in life. It states that if you fill the jar with sand (small stuff) first, there will be no room for the pebbles (things that matter) or golf balls (important things). Similarly, if you spend all your time on small unimportant things, you won't have room for what's truly important like health, family, friends, and passions. It encourages setting priorities by focusing first on the "golf balls" - the things critical to your happiness.

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The document outlines 10 steps that great leaders take when things go wrong: 1) Accept that failure is inevitable. 2) Confront failure by reflecting on mistakes. 3) Be vulnerable by openly admitting mistakes. 4) Fail forward by changing perspectives and learning from failures. 5) Recover fast by helping people understand problems and providing solutions. 6) Fight back by rising above failure and looking for opportunities. 7) Make tough choices by deciding whether to abandon or continue with mistakes. 8) Realize their responsibility to influence others positively. 9) Take one for the team by supporting risky decisions. 10) Know when to take a step back to reflect on lessons learned.

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*As seen on ProductCamp, altMBA and PMI Austin Chapter* Professionals are becoming aware that the journey to success increasingly includes moments in which reality does not match expectations. Recent Neuroscience findings shed light on how humans process those situations and open the door for us to act confidently and compassionately grow when faced with the inevitable of failure. Can we mature our individual and collective emotions to where we process these situations more freely, learn in the process, and come back willing to perform better as a team? What if we could increase our ability to bounce back stronger from these situations? This interactive, two-way presentation will challenge participants to do just that. In this presentation, you’ll learn: 1. Defining failure and learning 2. The Neuroscience findings on how humans learn 3. Strategies to connect and influence others: the SCARF model 4. The Drama Triangle: 3 roles we often use to tell stories... And the issues involved in those narratives 5. How cognitive reappraisal can improve individual and team's ability to connect and learn 6. Leading change using these constructs: failure, insights, patterns, lessons, commitments 7. A step-by-step process to make all these things happen, graciously

Succeeding in today's increasingly competitive global landscape calls for our organizations to leverage everything they can, and increasingly, that leverage is coming down to your employees' soft skills. But while it's easy (well, easier) to measure and hire for hard-skills competency, it's very difficult to recognize and hire for soft skills. And once hired, it becomes even more of a task to build these soft skills in our employees. In this slideshare we'll take a hard look at the soft skills that really enable organizations to succeed. From recruiting to learning and development and performance management to the exit interview, we'll show how soft-skills focus can dramatically impact your company's bottom line. In this slideshare, you will learn: • Soft skills: What are they anyway? • Soft skills and recruiting: The secret to successful hires • What the bottomline results are for soft skills • How to teach, measure, and mentor soft skills

Stop putting off having difficult conversations. Seven practical tips to ensure your next difficult conversation go smoothly.

High-performing teams have several traits in common that make them successful. Some of the key traits include embracing diversity of backgrounds, prioritizing work-life balance for all members, and maintaining laser-like focus on goals. These teams also engage well together both during formal meetings and outside of meetings through open communication. Fostering strengths of all members, healthy debates, and group cohesion are other characteristics of top teams.