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The Right Address announces a new speaker.
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - May 2, 2008
She is not a motivational speaker reliant on buzz words, hype and jargon. Her main themes are how to stay motivated, being adaptable to change, ...
Chris Matthews to deliver Commencement address
Student Life, MO -
"Someone who has a strong connection with the University, who can share in our experience, can be an effective and motivational speaker. ...

CNNMoney.com
Launching a public-speaking career
CNNMoney.com - May 1, 2008
There are bureaus serving different niches: motivational speakers, business executives, subject experts and those working in specific geographic regions. ...
Events & Announcements
Nova Scotia Business Journal, Canada -
Motivational leadership lunch on May 29: Extraordinary community leader Bill Stickland will be giving a presentation called "The Art of Leadership". ...

Intermountain Catholic
DCCW celebrates its 80th annual convention
Intermountain Catholic, UT -
?He is a motivational speaker and said God has given him strength to surmount what others might call impossible,? said Hunt. Hunt said one woman attended ...
Conference Venue Marks Measure Of Success
Scoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand -
... areas of life ? motivational potential trainer Pat Mesiti (Australia), international corporate speaker and personality profile expert Alison Mooney, ...
Motivational speakers: You can be whatever you want
Kentucky.com, KY - Apr 26, 2008
Lowe's speaker roster on April 29 also includes Rick Belluzzo, former president and chief operating officer of Microsoft; author and sales expert Tom ...

CSTV.com
Matt Bellace Visits Texas A&M University-Commerce
CSTV.com, NY - May 1, 2008
Motivational speaker and comedian Matt Bellace, Ph.D. came to Ferguson Auditorium on the campus of Texas A&M University-Commerce on Thursday night. ...
Orphan and Former Foster Child Who is Now a Doctor of Education ...
Earthtimes (press release), UK - Apr 30, 2008
Dr. Williams is a member of the National Speakers Association (http://www.nsaspeaker.org/) and several speaker bureaus. His website also provides more ...
Motivational speaker on tap at CAHS today
Cheboygan Daily Tribune (subscription), MI - Apr 16, 2008
By MARK SPENCLEY CHEBOYGAN - A motivational speaker and acclaimed authority on family relationships will be at Cheboygan Area High School at 7 pm today ...
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The motivational impairment effect in the communication of deception: Replications and extensions -
BM DePaulo, SE Kirkendol, J Tang, TP O'Brien - Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 1988 - Springer
... the Attractiveness of Speaker (Iow/medium/high) factor. For the Modality-Judged
factor, we used con- trast weights corresponding to the motivational impairment ...

Expression of emotional?motivational connotations with a one-word utterance -
L Leinonen, T Hiltunen, I Linnankoski, ML Laakso - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1997 - link.aip.org
... phonation, articulation, and facial expression, which thus may all contribute to
the acoustic signaling of the speaker?s emotional?motivational state. ...

Internalism and Speaker Relativism -
J Dreier - Ethics, 1990 - JSTOR
... means "x is highly evaluated by standards of system M," where M is filled in by
looking at the affective or motivational states of the speaker and constructing ...

Reinventing Government as Postmodern Symbolic Politics. -
CJ Fox - Public Administration Review, 1996 - questia.com
... My conjecture, based on listening to motivational speakers, is that the
customer-service orientation, in addition to being those things mentioned three ...

Names, Relational Words, and Cognitive Development in English and Korean Speakers: Nouns Are
A Gopnik, S Choi - Beyond Names for Things: Young Children's Acquisition of …, 1995 - books.google.com
... general factors, motivational or stylistic differences, general cultural differences,
and so on. These explanations become less likely if Korean speakers are ...

The motivational basis of language learning tasks
Z D?rnyei - Individual differences and instructed language learning, 2002 - books.google.com
... The overall pattern provides strong evidence that the interlocutor's motivational
disposition is related to the speaker's performance. ...

[BOOK] Secrets of Successful Speakers: How You Can Motivate, Captivate, and Persuade
L Walters, L Walters - 1993 - books.google.com
... She is a motivational business speaker in the United States, Canada, Australia,
Europe, Africa, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Malaysia, Thailand, and Mexico. ...

Learning Words from Knowledgeable versus Ignorant Speakers: Links Between Preschoolers' Theory of … -
MA Sabbagh, DA Baldwin - Child Development, 2001 - Blackwell Synergy
... as their abilities to make appropriate judgments about speakers? inten- tions ... evidence
a sophisticated understanding of so-called motivational mental states ...

[CITATION] Abstinence becomes a business: motivational speaker turns chastity into a job coaching teens
S Williams - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. October, 2000

ATTITUDES AND ATTAINED PROFICIENCY IN ESL: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF NATIVE SPEAKERS OF CHINESE IN … -
JW Oller, AJ Hudson, PF Liu - Language Learning, 1977 - Blackwell Synergy
... A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF NATIVE SPEAKERS OF CHINESE IN THE UNITED STATES ... the free
speech tasks) is ex- plained by the motivational variables (integrativeness ...

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Do motivational speakers motivate you?

Last Thursday I attended a motivational breakfast hosted by Aptus. Now, on a good day I am a skeptic, on a bad day a cynic. I’ve always had a horror of motivational speakers and books. Don’t try and talk to me about The Secret. Jaw on about Robert Kiyosaki or Anthony Robbins, and my first thought is the failed motivational speaker in the superb Little Miss Sunshine.

So I went along to the breakfast preparing to be all cynical and curmudgeonly and wouldn’t you know, it wasn’t that bad. First up was Shurnell Anderson, who is originally from Barbados, as her lilting Caribbean accent suggests. An endearing combination of comedy and sincerity, her arguments weren’t dramatically new or revelatory, but she summed up a practical approach to motivation that made a lot of sense. In short, motivation consists of awareness, followed by choice, then thought and finally action. Do something about whatever you want within 48 hours, or the desire will fade away, she advised. And don’t turn this into yet another shelf-development course, where you buy the CD and it gathers dust on a shelf.

Anderson’s comment about shelf-development was ironic in light of the fact that selling CDs was exactly what the next speaker, Justin Cohen tried to do. The hard sell at the end undermined what was otherwise a slick and polished presentation, complete with Powerpoint. One colleague said later that she did not enjoy this talk as much because she found it insincere in comparison to Anderson, but I suppose it’s a matter of taste. Most of the assessment forms I saw lying around afterwards gave each speaker 5 out of 5 for both content and presentation.

Interestingly, the content of Cohen’s talk was very similar to Mark Sampson’s show Missing Links, which I had watched the night before. Both broach the subject of human nature from the point of view of science and human evolution. Where Sampson spoke about DNA and skin colour, Cohen looked at mirror neurons and language. The point of his talk was that we communicate via storytelling, and when we get depressed, it’s not about life, it’s about the stories that we tell about life. In the same way, brands should seek to tell engaging stories about themselves - which Cohen illustrated with a very negative story about LG laptops. (If you are considering buying a laptop from LG, don’t: the service and backup is shocking.)

So, gosh darnit, I ended up enjoying my morning of motivation. Okay, so I then spent the next three days in a depression, but I’m sure it wasn’t connected in any way to all the interesting and useful things I had learned.

One last point: if you’re going to host an event for which each participant is forking out R495, then it’s a bit rude to subject them to a fairly rigorous sales pitch upfront. Aptus supplied us with a brochure on their services, so a couple of sentences would have sufficed. Instead, we had to sit through a Powerpoint presentation showing photos of every single one of their employees, including their board of directors, and a detailed overview of the services on offer. “I think that gives you a pretty sound overview,” the speaker said at the end of her spiel.

Somebody - a motivational speaker perhaps - should tell these people that the surest way to unsell yourself is to try too hard.

 
 
 
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