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A wedding is one of the most special days of a person’s life, especially when it comes to brides. Although there are many things out there that might be good for the couple, not all of them fall into your budget and others simply aren’t special enough for a wedding day. Some wedding gift ideas you can simply derive for their wedding registries. Even then, you would have to sift through countless stuff that they have sneaked in along with useful stuff.

Artwork

Beautiful artwork is always a welcome gift. The couple is just about to begin their new life, probably in a new home. This means that they will always be in need of stuff that will help spruce up their home. Artwork doesn’t always have to be something generic. You could even get a personalised piece made for them. Something like a portrait or create a mosaic out of favourite pictures.

Paid Vacation or Stay at a Hotel

This is one of the more expensive options on the list. Not too many people have the finance required to back something like this up but it doesn’t necessarily have to be from one person. A number of people could chip in and pay for their dream vacation. A stay for the first 2 or 3 days at an expensive hotel for their first few nights is also a great way to celebrate their new lives.

Bottle of Wine

There are some generic gifts which may become special only by the intentions attached to them. Give the wine a personalised label celebrating their wedding and wishing them a healthy and happy life. Another great way is to tell them to only open it on their 5th or 10th anniversary. This shows the faith you have in them as a couple.

Dinnerware

Dinnerware may sound very boring but ask the bride and groom after a few months of marriage. Once all the exciting gifts have run out and they’re left to tend to their house, dinnerware will feel like a blessing.

Expensive Items off the Registry

These are usually items that the bride and groom have sneaked in. These may be expensive and depend entirely upon your budget and relationship with the couple. Couples are not usually expecting people to purchase these high priced gifts so it will be a nice surprise for them if you do.

Wedding gift ideas can be confusing but if you have a registry at your disposal, you can’t really go wrong. If you want to go off the wedding registry for whatever reason make sure that the present is personal and memorable. Wedding present ideas with a personal touch are very appealing and can set your gift apart from the others.

Number 1.Sending out the right signals

Have you ever walked into a presentation to see a sea of uninspired faces gazing back at you? The Practice Manager is looking repeatedly at her watch, one GP has already rushed in and out of the door twice, and everyone else is staring longingly at the sandwiches – knowing that they will have to sit through your presentation before they are given a few precious minutes to eat?

Faced with the adversities of diverse audiences and strict time limits, you may feel uncertain or anxious before you start your presentation. So it is important that you send out the right signals when you begin, in order to create a friendly environment that allows you to build rapport with your audience.

Remember: You are your best audio and visual aid. Your audience picks up signals from how you present yourself, your voice and your body language. You need to project yourself in a positive way in order to influence them. Although some people are naturally good communicators, everyone can learn communication skills and use them to their advantage.

Number 2.Command with your voice.

Most people rarely use the voice to its full potential as a means of communication. When they start to make more use of the voice, they are surprised at how empowering this feels in helping them to influence and engage with their audience.

The starting point for anyone working on their voice is to create a relaxed physical state, since any tension in the body inhibits vocal power. Before starting your presentation, take a couple of deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth. As you breathe out, think of releasing tensions with the breath. This simple breathing technique will also encourage you to slow down – which is very helpful at the start of a presentation, when your nerves can easily make you go too fast.

Your voice should command your audience as soon as you say the first words. To provide your voice with support, it is important that your posture is strong. Always check that you are standing with both feet firmly on the ground – or if you are sitting, that the small of your back is firmly supported by the back of the chair.

Number 3. Pace yourself

A complaint I often hear from medical sales representatives is that they are always fighting against the clock. They struggle with the strict time limits imposed on them, especially when lunch has to be included in the time slot. So there may be a tendency to speed up in order to get all the information across. But this is counter-productive. Too much information given too fast can overwhelm your audience, resulting in a complete ‘switch-off’. Restrict the amount of information the audience has to take in: limit your presentation to no more than three key messages.

Keep the pace of your delivery steady by inserting pauses into your presentation. Pauses act as a brake pedal to stop you ‘free-wheeling’. Try to pause for three seconds after your first sentence to help you control your pace at the start. You will be less likely to speed up as you continue speaking.

Number 4. Enhance your messages

Another challenge is holding everyone’s attention and interest for all of the time. It is important that you speak with passion, even if you have delivered the presentation many times before.

When you speak, emphasize your most powerful words to help you sound more convincing and have greater influence over your audience. Emphasize the first word of your sentence to grab their attention, and emphasize the last word to help you avoid trailing off and losing energy. If you feel that someone has ‘switched off’, try emphasizing your next word while looking at them. This will help to regain their attention and make them feel more included. Our moods are expressed through our tone of voice. You may be giving a presentation late on a Friday afternoon, when you are tired – and your voice will sound flat, dull and lifeless.

You need to put more energy into your voice, so that it sounds enthusiastic and is more likely to inspire the listener. One way to help influence your tone of voice is to adopt a role. For example, a highly successful approach is to take on the role of a storyteller and imagine that your message is an exciting story. This will help to ‘lift’ your voice and create greater energy and variety in your tone. Finally, always remember to smile: when you smile, your voice smiles! This is always a good way to build rapport with your audience.

Number 5. Look good, feel good

Body language is important to consider when you want to send out the right signals. We all subconsciously read the body language of others – their posture, facial expressions, gestures and eye contact – and react accordingly. If you slouch, avoid eye contact and speak with an impassive or stern face, your audience may conclude that you are unmotivated or impatient, and be unlikely to receive your presentation with any enthusiasm.

You want to aim for a relaxed but professional image. To achieve this, make sure that your posture is strong without being tense. Share your eye contact around the audience to help you connect with them. A useful rule is to give three seconds to each person at any one time. This will allow you to engage with individuals and keep them all involved in the presentation.

Try to use gestures while you are speaking: this helps to create a stronger presence, and enhances your voice. When you use a strong gesture with a powerful word, you cannot help putting greater emphasis into your voice.

Number 6. Polish the practicalities

You also need to think about practicalities in order to ensure a polished, professional performance. Five key points to consider are:

1. clearly state your schedule at the start. It will help you to control your audience if they know how long the presentation and the following lunch break will be. You must then stick to your times in order to keep their attention.

2. Be conversational with your audience – ask them a few questions at the start to ‘open them up’ and find out more about them. This will help to create a more personal, relaxed environment, and you will be able to pitch your presentation more effectively to those present.

3. Make it clear at the start what you hope your audience will gain from the presentation. Ask yourself why should my audience listen to me? What are the key benefits to them?

4. Ensure that you are properly set up before you start – don’t waste precious presentation time setting up equipment while your audience are waiting

5. Try to walk around the presentation space before your audience arrives.

This will help you to feel more familiar with the space, and to look as though you have ownership of it.

Number 7. Finally, enjoy your presentation. A presenter who looks as if they are going to enjoy the meeting will send out the right signals. And if you enjoy it, your audience is more likely to do the same!

Good luck next time and don’t forget to train and sharpen your skills, remember all professionals have coaches, amateurs have none.

When you’re negotiating with people who have studied negotiating, and are proud of their ability to negotiate, you can get ridiculously close to agreement, and the entire negotiation will still fall apart on you. When it does, it’s probably not the price or terms of the agreement that caused the problem, it’s the ego of the other person as a negotiator. When that happens, Power Negotiators use a simple technique that positions the other person for easy acceptance.

Let’s say that you market advertising specialties, such as rulers, with the company’s name on it-or custom printed baseball caps and T-shirts. You have made an appointment to meet with the manager at a local appliance store. What you may not realize is that just before you showed up in his office, the manager said to the owner of the store, “You just watch me negotiate with this advertising specialty representative. I know what I’m doing, and I’ll get us a good price.”

Now he’s not doing as well as he hoped in the negotiation and he may be reluctant to agree to your proposal because he doesn’t want to feel that he lost to you as a negotiator. That can happen, even when the other person knows that your proposal is fair and it satisfies his needs in every way.
So, when this happens you must find a way to make the other person feel good about giving in to you. You must Position for Easy Acceptance. Power Negotiators know that the best way to do this is to make a small concession just at the last moment. The size of the concession can be ridiculously small, and you can still make it work because it’s not the size of the concession that’s critical, but the timing.

So, you might say, “We just can’t budge another dime on the price, but I tell you what. If you’ll go along with the price, I’ll personally supervise the printing to be sure that it goes smoothly.”

Perhaps you were planning to do that anyway, but the point is that you’ve been courteous enough to position the other person so that he can respond, “Well all right, if you’ll do that for me, we’ll go along with the price.” Then he doesn’t feel that he lost to you in the negotiation. He felt that he traded off.

Positioning for Easy Acceptance is another reason why you should never go in with your best offer up front. If you have offered all of your concessions already, before you get to the end of the negotiation, you won’t have anything left with which to position the other side.

Here are some other small concessions that you can use to position:

You’re selling a boat, so you offer to take the buyers out and show them how to sail it.

If you sell office equipment, offer to inventory their supplies and set them up on an automatic reordering system.

You’re selling a car, so you offer to include the snow chains.

Hold this price for 90 days in case they want to duplicate this order.

You’re hiring someone and can’t pay him or her what they asked, but you offer to review it after 90 days.

Offer forty-five day terms instead of 30 days.

Offer three years for the price of two on an extended service warranty.

Remember, it’s the timing of the concession that counts, not the size. The concession can be ridiculously small and still be effective. Using this Gambit, Power Negotiators can make the other person feel good about giving in to them.

Never, ever gloat. Never, when you get through negotiating, say to the other person, “Harry, you know, if you’d hung in there a little big longer, I was prepared to do this and this and this for you.” Harry’s going to say unkind things about your mommy when you do that.

I realize that in the normal course of business you’d never be foolish enough to gloat over the other person because you felt you out-negotiated him. However, you get into trouble with this one when you’re negotiating with someone you know really well. Perhaps you’ve been playing golf with this person for years. Now you’re negotiating something. You both know you’re negotiating and you’re having fun playing the game. Finally, he says to you, “All right. We’re all agreed on this and we’re not going to back out, but just for my own satisfaction, what was your real bottom line there?” Of course you are tempted to brag a little, but don’t do it. He will remember that for the next 20 years.

Always when you’re through negotiating-congratulate. However poorly you think the other people may have done, congratulate them. Say, “Wow. Did you do a fantastic job negotiating with me. I realize that I didn’t get as good a deal as I could have done, but frankly, it was worth it because I learned so much about negotiating. You were brilliant.” You want the other person to feel that he or she won in the negotiations.

Have you ever watched attorneys in court? They’ll cut each other to ribbons inside the courtroom. However, outside you’ll see the district attorney go up to the defense attorney and say, “Wow, were you brilliant in there. You really were. True your guy got 30 years, but I don’t think anybody could have done a better job than you did.” The district attorney understands that he’ll be in another courtroom one day with that same defense attorney, and he doesn’t want the attorney feeling that this is a personal contest. Gloating over a victory will just make the attorney more determined than ever to win the rematch.

Similarly, you will be dealing with that other person again. You don’t want her remembering that she lost to you. It would make her only more determined to get the better of you in a rematch.

Key points to remember:

If the other person is proud of his ability to negotiate, his egotistical need to win may stop you from reaching agreement.

Position the other person to feel good about giving in to you with a small concession made just at the last moment.

Because timing is more important than the size of the concession, the concession can be ridiculously small and still be effective.

Always congratulate the other person when you get through negotiating, however poorly you think he or she did.