Nancy Duarte
14 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 1, 2023 by Nancy Duarte · said 17 times in 4 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Jun 1, 2023
Duarte: The audience holds the power in presentations, making presenters mentors
“Who really holds the power in the room of a presentation is the audience. Like the audience gets to make a choice if they accept or reject your idea. So the balance of power is with them and not you. So it really is the role of the presenter to be the mentor.”
Jun 1, 2023 neutral
Jun 1, 2023
Duarte: Stage Fright Triggers the Same Fight-or-Flight Threat as an Animal Attack
“And so what happens is the reason you get scared, it's a fight or flight instinct. For some reason, stepping out on that stage, you feel your body and your mind and your psyche is feeling threatened, like you would be attacked by an animal. Like, that's litera…”
Jun 1, 2023 positive
Duarte: Alternating between 'what is' and 'what could be' persuades audiences
“So this motion of traversing between what is, what could be, what is, what could be, what is, what could be that sense of longing for the future. It makes people leave their current state or the status quo or our current reality and makes them long for this fu…”
Jun 1, 2023
Duarte: Every presentation slide must make only one supporting point
“The concept that each slide should make one point, so your whole presentation should be grounded in what we call the audience journey, which is the big idea, where you're trying to move them from, where you're trying to move them to, and then a big idea is wha…”
Jun 1, 2023 positive
Duarte: Ending pitches by illustrating a post-adoption world definitely works
“The new bliss you end with what, you know, in Western cultures where it's like a happy ending. So the new bliss is just imagine a world with your idea adopted, just, and then you paint a picture of that world poetically or pragmatically and it works. It defini…”
Jun 1, 2023 positive
The narrative contrast framework works for everyday persuasion, even at home
“The ability to just have that contrast as a framework in your brain during a meeting, on a phone call, any moment of influence, like get in the husband to do some chores for me. Like literally, it works. It works in any format.”
Jun 1, 2023
Duarte Inc. runs employee surveys and listening tours before vision talks
“Before I do a presentation, that's going to require Goals or them reaching goals, or we do an annual vision talk. We do a listening tour first. So some of it's based in surveys, some of it's based in interviews and we feed that information up and then we compa…”
Jun 1, 2023 positive
Duarte: Internal team slides should be information-dense, not cinematic
“Don't feel like every single meeting needs, like, cinematic pictures of kittens, because that's not going to get you anywhere. You're trying to move an objective along, and that does mean that your slides might be more dense, and sometimes internal slides have…”
Jun 1, 2023 negative
Duarte: Study shows remote camera training degraded in-person eye contact skills
“And a new study just came out. I just came across my desk today and it said that soft skills really suffered and the people who did it right say, and looked at the camera, they don't have good eye contact skills anymore. When they are looking face to face in s…”
Jun 1, 2023 positive
Jun 1, 2023 neutral
Duarte: Starting with conclusions works for executives but not transformative change
“When you state the conclusion first, that's a great thing to do with execs. It's a great thing to do when you are fundraising. It's a certain type of an audience that that works for. There's other audiences where They really need to be taught to long for this …”
Jun 1, 2023
Duarte: Duarte Inc. had produced 250,000 presentations by 2014
“He said 250,000, but that was 10 years ago and I didn't do the math. So when my team questioned it, I'm like, oh, Dan did the math. They're like, oh, then it's accurate. Cause they thought I was just making up this number. I'm like, no, no, we actually went in…”
Jun 1, 2023