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When speaking to groups, one of the surefire techniques that you can employ to be effective is the use of stories. Stories have intrigued humankind since our earliest days as cave dwellers. Regardless of what you’re trying to achieve, telling the audience a story increases their propensity to be attentive.In this captivating session, professional speaker Jeff Davidson, who has addressed nearly eight hundred audiences in forty six states of the union and in six foreign countries, lays out exactly what it takes to effectively use stories with your audiences.

Self-confident people exude passion and achieve extraordinary results. Join 10 experts in self-confidence as they share the systems for what the most successful people in the world enjoy - powerful self-confidence! Powerful Self-Confidence will teach you skills to increase your emotional capacity, build an unshakable belief in yourself, and experience increased performance through self-confidence. Implement the systems and tools offered in this program, and you will cultivate a healthy and confident state of mind to propel your life forward.

Are you frustrated by your own tendency to put things off until they become major issues? Kick that procrastination habit in one minute flat! There is no better time than the present to get motivated and get organized! The 60 Second Procrastinator is a simple, effective, hands-on guide that you can use to dismantle habits and mindsets that are barriers to productivity.

Does it feel like sometimes others at work are not listening to you? Or if they are listening to you, they don't act on what you say? Is it hard for you to get people's attention? Do you say "yes" when you would prefer to say "no"? If these and related issues have been tugging on your mind, perhaps you need to be more assertive. You're not alone. If it's always been hard for you to get the attention of others, to be heard, or to be followed, take heed. Many people feel the same way. Today many people are finding themselves being increasingly not heard.

Whether you’re an author, a business professional, or you simply want to be better at harnessing the power of the written word, this program can help. The storytelling tools and writing techniques contained here will help you manipulate words on paper to your greatest advantage. You’ll understand the power of using a story, a quote, or some powerful hook to rope in the reader from the very first paragraph. You’ll also learn why it’s important to understand who the reader is, what he or she needs, and how you can best convey your point.

In this ultra-hectic world with exponential population growth, an explosion of information, worldwide media coverage, ever-increasing piles of paper, and an overabundance of choices, any of us can feel overwhelmed at any given time. Yet it is both vital and entirely possible to carve out a sense, and an experience, of breathing space on a reoccurring basis. In this breakthrough program, author and professional speaker Jeff Davidson discusses 14 signs of having breathing space in your life and how to prevail in each area.

Selling is one of the most difficult professions. Who wants to be in a line of work where the typical response is “no?” Who wants to encounter rejection day in and day out? Effective salespeople face this scenario all the time. Hence, it’s understandable when, on occasion, procrastination arises. Yet, with everyday techniques that anyone can master, no sales professional needs to be shackled by procrastination. In this session, professional speaker and author Jeff Davidson offers a variety of hands-on techniques....

In this unique program, Jeff Davidson, author and professional speaker, discusses the key concepts on your path to being more productive at work and more focused on activities in your personal life—doing one thing at a time. Jeff has delivered this presentation to audiences around the world and, in fact, has trademarked the term “the art of doing one thing at a time.”

While the challenges and level of stress you face at work may be mounting, a variety of techniques at your disposal can help diminish the effects of stress. In this session, mega-author and professional speaker Jeff Davidson discusses thirty-six techniques, including twelve physical, twelve mental, and twelve mental and physical, to help diminish any feelings of stress you might be experiencing during the work day.

Despite our ever-increasing reliance on mobile technology, most people spend at least some time during the week at a desk. Being organized and effective at your desk can make a dramatic difference in your productivity and promotability. In this revealing program, author and professional speaker Jeff Davidson discusses the ten commandments of deskmanship that first appeared in his book Breathing Space: Living and Working at a Comfortable Pace in a Sped-Up Society.

Practically everyone collects something, and many of us have several different types of collections. When do collections, however, become problematic? When do we say, "This is enough, I've got too much, my collection is getting out of hand"? In this program, author and professional speaker Jeff Davidson, who has addressed this very issue to packed audiences on cruise ships, explains why we collect, what we tend to collect, and most importantly, what we can do to keep our collections under control.

This program is for anyone who wants to experience less clutter, be more productive, and go through each day with greater clarity and focus. Author and prolific speaker Jeff Davidson discusses why every gainfully employed adult in America faces unrelenting information and communication overload--and how to regain control. Jeff explains that while no one is coming to help you, you already have all the tools and smarts you need to manage information and not be abused by it.

Why are some employees admired, favored, and even coveted by bosses, coworkers, and team members, while others, who might be equally talented never seem to enjoy such approval? Professional speaker Jeff Davidson has written such books as Marketing Your Career and Yourself, The Complete Guide to Public Speaking, and The 60 Second Innovator. In Getting Ahead on The Job, he highlights the difference between those who are able to leverage what they do for optimal gain versus those who simply keep their nose to the grindstone

In your quest to save time, the information you encounter in books and articles sometimes represents the opposite of what you're seeking to achieve. In this illuminating program, professional speaker and author Jeff Davidson exposes a variety of false timesavers tips and techniques you might have come across that offer little, if anything, in the way of benefit. He then provides an array of true timesaving techniques for this hectic era.

Many executives and entrepreneurs today are finding it increasingly difficult to make decisions, even lowlevel decisions. Why? They are bombarded by too much information, which can get in the way of effective decisionmaking. In this innovative session, author and professional speaker Jeff Davidson outlines three basic strategies for avoiding the paralysis of analysis, thus making decisions faster and easier.

A book of 12 to 16 chapters should yield at least 12 to 16 articles that can be sold, distributed, or posted on the web and converted to e-books, monographs, white papers, zines, and executive letters. In this 57 minute discussion, prolific author and speaker Jeff Davidson helps you to easily derive articles from your book and have them published over and over again!

Selling your book in foreign markets is no picnic. On the other hand, who wants to leave money lying on the table? As an author, you can do well in overseas markets. If you've written the right type of book, it's not uncommon to resell in this language or that. This one-hour program sheds much needed light on what is often regarded as a mysterious process.

Many people have goals focused on career achievements or net worth. Far fewer have goals related to the quality of life. In this innovative program, author and professional speaker Jeff Davidson discusses the importance of establishing work-life balance goals such as identifying the number of relaxing weekends you want to experience within a month, determining how much sleep you want to have each night, and targeting your resting pulse per minute.

Email has become the great blessing, as well as the great curse, of today’s career professionals. Each of us is deluged by more messages coming in than we can comfortably respond to. How can we better manage email so as to better manage our day and our time? In this compelling session, professional speaker Jeff Davidson, who has written such popular books as Breathing Space, Simpler Living, The Ten Minute Guide to Managing Time, and The 60 Second Organizer, lays out a plan to help you get started immediately.

Technology was supposed to make us ultra-efficient, thereby enabling us to finish our projects and tasks faster and have more leisure time! How is that working out for you? Actually, as the pace of work and life accelerates, people everywhere find themselves striving for solutions to the constant time-pressure that they encounter. Jeff Davidson, the sole person on Earth designated by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as The Work-Life Balance Expert, delivers four programs to help you get on the road to a work-life balance.