Don't make this common mistake when you begin a presentation, workshop or meeting. 🛑

When is your audience most cynical? At the beginning of a presentation or workshop or the end? 🤨
When are you the most nervous? At the beginning of the presentation or the end? 😰

Personal Development, Business, Professional Development, Productivity, MarketingDan KussMay 15, 2024Dan Kuss + Strengths Academyactivity, wellbeing, presentation, faciliate, facilitation, present, workshop, business, sales, marketingComment

Reading from the slides is presentation suicide.

Let’s be honest, there are times when perhaps we all need to read a little from a slide. The content might be technical, or you might be paraphrasing. But, in general, we should keep it to a minimum. Let’s explore why we do and what to do about it.

Personal Development, Business, Professional Development, Productivity, MarketingDan KussMay 6, 2024Dan Kuss + Strengths Academyactivity, wellbeing, presentation, faciliate, facilitation, present, workshop, business, sales, marketingComment

What if your audience loses interest?

Two really important questions that we need to start with:
1. Why would your audience lose interest?
2. How do you know they’ve lost interest? What are signs?

Personal Development, Business, Professional Development, Productivity, MarketingDan KussApril 26, 2024Dan Kuss + Strengths Academyactivity, wellbeing, presentation, faciliate, facilitation, present, workshop, business, sales, marketingComment

How do you stop your audience from judging you?

The truth is, you can’t.

However, there are several strategies you can use to minimise their reasons for doing so.

Personal Development, wellbeing, Strengths, Professional Development, BusinessDan KussApril 22, 2024mental health, activity, wellbeing, Gallup, compromise, win winComment

Ten strategies for finding more joy in your work.

What gives you joy at work? Do you know?

I was thinking about this last week. What gives me joy in my work, and do people get to create joy in their work?

The statistics right now around engagement and quiet quitting are quite alarming. 67% of the workforce doesn't really want to be there. They're not engaged. A more alarming 11% of the workforce is loud quitting–they are actively disengaged and causing trouble in the workplace. What a shame. So, I had an idea–to share a bunch of ideas about how to find joy in your work and enjoy your work more.

Personal Development, wellbeing, Strengths, Professional Development, BusinessDan KussNovember 3, 2023mental health, activity, wellbeing, Gallup, compromise, win winComment

How to deal with a weakness, or lesser strength.

I often get asked how to handle a weakness which is maybe a strength of someone else's. And on the flip side, how to handle a strength that might be someone else's weakness.

There a few things we can do. Join me as we explore being gentle and the concept of the WIN/WIN.