From sales talks to keynote addresses, entrepreneurs reveal how to make a business presentation with impact. Pitching and presenting are core skills for all entrepreneurs to master. No matter what size your business, there will come a time when you’ll need to stand in a room and give a speech. Whether there are five people in front of you or 500, public speaking can be a nerve-racking affair. But presentations don’t have to be silky smooth; the keys to success are to think hard about your audience and to speak with passion.
Lifelong learning is good for your health, your wallet and your social life, so how do we make upskilling a priority? We uncover the best tech tools for helping anyone improve and build on their skills, from language boosts to note-taking.
Learning doesn’t just stop when you leave school or university. The benefits of education carry on well into your working years. And, while you might be glad the days of trauma-inducing exams are behind you, there many good reasons to keep your mind as reactive as possible.
The benefits of lifelong learning and skills development go much further than improving economic productivity, and can even indirectly improve your wellbeing, leading to positive outcomes in health and socially positive behaviours.
Just do crazy stuff and worry about what people think later.
As someone who’s never had a “real” job, I still find it a little strange when people ask me to talk about my philosophies as an entrepreneur. I wonder how popular a TED Talk titled “Just do crazy stuff and worry about what people think later” would be? My personal journey as an entrepreneur has always been an unconventional one, stemming from and leading to unexpected places.
I started at the age of 20 with nightclub art installations, going onto more weird and wonderful projects, including setting up North Korea's first surf school. Today, I'm trying to tackle one of the biggest issues in the developed world -- youth inactivity; by connecting tech, sports and business and also trying to reverse declining participation levels and improve pro performance in ball sports at the same time.
Building a business may be exciting, but it’s also a lot of work. You need to use your time as productively as possible to ensure steady growth.
This is even more important for solopreneurs, who can’t delegate tasks to employees. Even if you work from a coworking office and don’t have to worry about things like office space management, spending your time wisely can be a constant struggle.
That’s why it’s smart to keep certain essential time management tips in mind. If you’re trying to start a business on your own, the following advice will help you get work done efficiently:
If you want to be a remote worker, you may need to convince your boss. Daniel Mobbs has the lowdown on the skills required, from effective time management to confident communications While remote working is increasingly popular, not everyone is a natural-born remote employee. Where some people are primed to excel beyond the four walls of the office HQ, others are more likely to crash and burn without plans and strategies in place for a new way of working. “Candidates must be honest about their own ability to handle the heightened responsibilities and expectations that accompany remote work,” says Anthony Curlo, CEO of IT recruiting and staff augmentation firm DaVinciTek(1).
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