Be Confident: Three Tips to Project Strength in Your Oral Presentations

It happens all too often to those on business reality television. It might be the bright lights, the star power across from them, or the gravity of the moment. But no matter the cause, the loss of confidence during a pitch has doomed many people on Dragons’ Den or Shark Tank.

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Know Your Market: Three Free Ways to Gain Market Insights for Proposal Professionals

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Embrace Solutions, Not Excuses: Three Approaches to Handling Challenging Situations

Like all reality television, business reality shows are built on drama. Many of these programs focus on helping failing and struggling business turn their operations around, usually with a heavy dose of “tough love.” For example:

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Know your Numbers! Three Key Steps to Having the Information You Need

It’s always the most dramatic moment in a pitch on Shark Tank. The entrepreneur has done a great job talking about his revolutionary new product and how it will take the world by storm. Then one of the business heavyweights asks the critical question: “What are your numbers?” <Crickets.>

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