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Great speeches in Kevin Rudd’s leadership challenge

Public speaking is your core opportunity to demonstrate leadership qualities. There were some great speeches in the recent leadership challenge, and some not so great speeches. Overall, they tell a fascinating story. They explain a lot about leadership communication and public speaking. I’m not going to address who’s right or wrong, who lied or betrayed, etc….

Team building and team motivation with vivid messages

Team building can be achieved by developing focused, inspirational messages. It’s amazing how much impact these words can have on team motivation. I’ve written before about the importance of strong leadership messages when speaking a in corporate or presentation environment, and great leaders know that effective team building happens when your team is driven by a…

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Great speeches – David Morrison ‘The standard you walk past…’

The leadership message is clear in this David Morrison’s speech. “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. If that does not suit you then get out.” It’s recognised as one of the great speeches of recent years. In the midst of another sex scandal, around a “Jedi Council” internet sex ring, the leadership…

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David Morrison Speech Transcript: The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.

Here is the transcript of the David Morrison Speech – the highlight is his message: “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept”. This leadership speech is delivered by Chief of the Army, Lieutenant-General David Morrison. In the midst of a “Jedi Council” sex scandal, this was posted as a 3 minute video regarding unacceptable behaviour.[For the article…

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How Steve Jobs’ messaging changed the world

Messaging was Steve Jobs’ secret weapon in helping Apple products change the world. There is no doubt he transformed the world of music, computers and animation. In fact, he motivated people to work for him with the promise that they could actually change the world. But what is not recognised is how influential his unique approach to…

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Ashton Kutcher speech uses Steve Jobs’ Structure

I love writing about Steve Jobs and his incredible communication skills. And this Ashton Kutcher speech let’s me do it again. For example, How Steve Jobs’ messaging changed the world, Steve Jobs top 5 leadership messages and particularly the speech outline of his famous Stanford graduation speech. Jobs’ ability to leverage message and structure helped Apple…

#6 Amanda Lee – “Is everything in your team aligned?”

[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5906122/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/yes/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/tdest_id/550031/custom-color/c31f1f” height=”100″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen]       Cam interviews Amanda Lee who is the Content Director at Perth radio station 92.9FM. Amanda talks about: Her leadership Message to her managers, “Is everything in your team aligned to create great content?” Her realisation that, even thought she wasn’t nervous…

Kevin Rudd ‘caught’ shuffling speaker notes in debate – how important are notes?

Sunday night was the first Election debate with Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott. There’s plenty of commentary on who won and why. My view is below. However, I thought I’d use this opportunity to address a side story: Kevin Rudd’s use of speaker notes. The first headline I saw on Monday morning was: CAUGHT RUDD…