Four Alternatives to PowerPoint for Your Next Presentation PowerPoint, Microsoft’s presentation tool, was once ubiquitous as the business standard for organizing, distilling and demonstrating business ideas. Now, PowerPoint has far more competition. The Web has sparked a brisk market in alternatives for presenting your next big idea. And we spent about a month distilling the [...]
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4 Alternatives to PowerPoint for Your Next Presentation
October 15th, 2011 
emanuelperdis 
Posted in Coach-Mentor, Consulting, Speaking, Your Business, Your Career 
Tags: boardroom, communicating, pitch, pitching, Presentation, presenting, selling 
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Employers urged to tackle mental health as study suggests SMEs staff are feeling depressed
October 13th, 2011 emanuelperdis Employers and managers are being urged to take a more proactive approach to their workplace culture and the mental health of their employees, after a global survey of 1,200 workers suggested that up to one-quarter of the workforce is depressed and small businesses have found the going tough over the past year. The 2011 Global [...]
Posted in Coach-Mentor, featured, Your Business, Your Life Tags: anxiety, anxious, depression, health, mental health, small business, SME, stress, workplace No Comments »
Lead by being Transparent and Authentic
October 7th, 2011 emanuelperdis Mistrust in the workplace is on the rise and likely to increase unless employers become more transparent. Employees believe less and less in their employers these days. Since the global financial crisis – during which employees saw that even their employers didn’t necessarily know what they were doing as financial institutions crashed around them – [...]
Posted in Coach-Mentor, featured, Speaking, Your Business, Your Career Tags: accountability, accountable, authenticity, communication, distrust, leadership, leading, management, managing, responsibility, transparency, trust No Comments »
7 Cringe-Worthy Networking Blunders
September 21st, 2011 emanuelperdis Networking as we know it first took shape 15 or 20 years ago, when entrepreneurs and consultants started meeting up with people for the sole purpose of cultivating business relationships. It makes sense that self-employed folks would jump into the networking mosh pit ahead of corporate types, who didn’t need big or robust networks to [...]
Posted in Coach-Mentor, featured, Your Business, Your Career Tags: managing, Networki, people skills, selling No Comments »
A Smarter Way to Network
August 27th, 2011 emanuelperdis Networks are effective not because they are large or high powered, but because they support and challenge you. One’s relationships help gain influence, broaden expertise, learn new skills, and find purpose and balance. As an executive, you ought to value and nurture them. “Make friends so that you have friends when you need friends” [...]
Posted in Coach-Mentor, Consulting, featured, Your Business, Your Career Tags: address book, connecting, connections, contacts, network, Networking, rolodex 1 Comment »
6 Steps to Extreme Productivity
August 8th, 2011 emanuelperdis Principle 1: Know Your Comparative Advantage. Many CEOs encountered say, “Here are the top five priorities for the company. Who would be the best at carrying out each one?” Then they propose themselves for all five areas. This is based on a self-centered concept of comparative advantage. It focuses on what an executive does best [...]
Posted in Coach-Mentor, Consulting, featured, Training, Your Business, Your Career Tags: efficiency, executives, leaders, management, managing, Organised, Organization, performance, Productivity No Comments »
Dealing with Cold Shoulders after coming back from an Expat assignment
August 4th, 2011 emanuelperdis Many executives returning to Australia after several years away are frustrated by the lack of recognition of their experience but are important home truths to anticipate. Following are some great tips to help expats optimise re-integration and facilitating the leverage of value in international experience. Prepare a detailed Plan for your comeback. The devil really [...]
The Value of Good Advice in Business and in Life
August 3rd, 2011 emanuelperdis Business owners often approach me asking “What advice can you give me for my business?” The answer is simple. It’s advice. The reasons for starting a business are fairly common. As exciting and invigorating as it is to be your own boss, there are common pitfalls that can make it all come crashing down – [...]
Posted in Coach-Mentor, Consulting, featured, Your Business Tags: advice, business, consultant, entrepreneur 1 Comment »
When to Hire a Bookkeeper or Accountant
July 20th, 2011 emanuelperdis Entrepreneurs thrive on a DIY mentality: Do everything you can yourself and don’t pay for anything new until you have absolutely have to. It’s especially difficult to justify hiring financial help like a bookkeeper. With user-friendly software such as QuickBooks available, many business owners feel they should be able to keep their records on their [...]
Posted in Coach-Mentor, featured, Your Business Tags: accounting, accounts, bills, books, cashflow, finances, financial, invoices, invoicing, paperwork, profit No Comments » 5 Personality Traits of Top Salespeople
July 19th, 2011 emanuelperdis If you ask an extremely successful salesperson, “What makes you different from the average sales rep?” you will most likely get a less-than-accurate answer, if any answer at all. Frankly, the star salesperson may not even know the real answer because most successful salespeople are simply doing what comes naturally. Personality test result findings indicate [...]
Posted in Coach-Mentor, featured, Your Business, Your Career Tags: performance, personality, sales, sales reps, selling No Comments »
