Michael Ashcroft – Power Up: Speaking and Social Skills

What You’ll Learn In Power Up: Speaking and Social Skills?

Contents

Introduction

• Welcome
• Let speaking happen by itself

General principles

• Be in the world, not in a simulation of it
• Don’t try to seem natural — be natural
• Be available to possibilities while speaking
• Notice what causes your awareness to collapse
• Keep your body in your awareness

Individuals and small groups

• Include everyone in your awareness
• Be able to notice your audience and adapt
• Defence against the dark awareness arts
• Reduce people interrupting you

Public speaking

• How to manage nerves
• Be captivating to an audience

On camera

• Maintain expanded awareness even on camera
• Remember there is a person watching
• Decompress the space between you and the lens

The Vault

• Expanded awareness and how we signal attraction

About Michael Ashcroft

Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC is an international businessman, philanthropist, author and pollster. He was deputy chairman of the Conservative Party and is founder and chairman of the board of Crimestoppers. He is chairman of the trustees of the Ashcroft Technology Academy, a former Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University and a former trustee of Imperial War Museums.

Lord Ashcroft has a lifelong interest in bravery, and his many substantial charitable donations include more than £5 million for a new gallery bearing his name at the Imperial War Museum, London, which is home to his VC and GC collections as well as those decorations in the care of the IWM. Lord Ashcroft also donated more than £1 million towards the RAF Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park, central London, which was official unveiled by Her Majesty The Queen in 2012. This is his seventh book in the ‘Heroes’ series and, in total, he is now the author of twenty-three books.