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The Presentations Japan Series

The Presentations Japan Series

著者： Dale Carnegie Training
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Persuasion power is one of the kingpins of business success. We recognise immediately those who have the facility and those who don't. We certainly trust, gravitate toward and follow those with persuasion power. Those who don't have it lack presence and fundamentally disappear from view and become invisible. We have to face the reality, persuasion power is critical for building our careers and businesses. The good thing is we can all master this ability. We can learn how to become persuasive and all we need is the right information, insight and access to the rich experiences of others. If you want to lead or sell then you must have this capability. This is a fact from which there is no escape and there are no excuses.Copyright 2022 マネジメント マネジメント・リーダーシップ 経済学
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  • The Beauty Of Presentation Practice

    The Beauty Of Presentation Practice
    2026/10/05
    A business presentation should never be a "Just In Time" production. Yet busy executives routinely leave preparation until the last moment, recycle old slides, assemble a deck and then deliver the first complete version of the talk to the live audience. That is a high-risk approach for both personal and professional brands. Strong presentations are built steadily: understand the audience, define the purpose, select the key messages, assemble convincing evidence, design the opening and close, simplify the visuals and then rehearse until the delivery is polished. Why is last-minute presentation preparation so risky? Giving the first full rendition of your presentation to the live audience is an unnecessary high-wire act. Last-minute preparation leaves little opportunity to test the content, timing, logic or delivery before your reputation is on the line. Busy professionals often borrow Toyota's "Just In Time" production idea and apply it to presentations. They search previous decks, repurpose slides, cobble everything together and head to the venue. Reusing material can certainly save time, but assembling slides is not the same as preparing a presentation. For speaking, Aesop's tortoise is a better model than a production line: steady, consistent progress gives us time to think, test and improve. "We don't plan to fail, but we fail to plan" remains painfully relevant when the audience is waiting. Mini-summary: Never make the audience your rehearsal. Start early enough to test and improve the presentation before it becomes public. What should you do before creating presentation slides? Start by analysing the audience rather than opening PowerPoint and searching old slide decks. Until you know who you are speaking to, you do not know what content will be relevant or persuasive. Ask who will attend, how much expertise they already have, their seniority and what they are most interested in. Where useful, consider demographic factors such as age or gender composition, but only insofar as they genuinely affect the communication. Ask the organisers for as much useful audience information as possible. This creates a target for the presentation. Without that target, slide-deck amalgamation is like firing blindly into the dark. The slides may look familiar and professional, but familiarity does not make them appropriate for this particular audience. Mini-summary: Audience analysis comes before slide creation. Know who you are targeting before deciding what you are going to show them. What are the four main purposes of a presentation? A presentation generally aims to persuade, motivate, inform or entertain, and the speaker should decide the primary purpose before developing the content. Most business presentations concentrate on persuasion, motivation or information. Entertainment is a different challenge. Conference and convention organisers sometimes want a lighter speaker around lunch, dinner or another part of the programme, but genuinely entertaining an audience requires real talent. Unless you are a gifted raconteur, this is usually better left to professionals. For most executives, the critical decision is whether the audience should believe something, do something or understand something after the presentation. That purpose determines the structure, evidence and eventual call to action. Mini-summary: Decide what the presentation must achieve. Persuade, motivate or inform with intent rather than trying to do everything at once. How do you make your key presentation messages convincing? A central thesis is not enough; every important claim needs evidence that makes the message credible to the audience. Data, statistics, expert testimony, examples and stories can all help prove the point. Time limits force discipline. In a thirty- or forty-minute business presentation, there are only so many ideas we can cover properly. Once the key messages are selected, ask what evidence will make each one stick. Whenever you make a bold statement, mentally challenge yourself with the words "fake news". That may be exactly what a sceptical audience member is thinking. If the claim cannot survive that challenge, strengthen the evidence or reconsider the claim. Credibility comes from supporting assertions rather than merely delivering them confidently. Mini-summary: Match every major claim with proof. Assume the audience may be sceptical and give them a reason to believe you. How should you open and close a business presentation? Use a blockbuster opening to break through the audience's mental clutter, and prepare two strong closes so the final message is the one you want remembered. The second close comes after the Q&A because recency strongly influences what remains in the audience's mind. Audiences arrive carrying emails, meetings, deadlines and personal distractions. The opening has to win their attention quickly enough for the rest of the presentation to get through. At the other end, do not allow the final answer in ...
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  • How To Have Executive Presence Part Two

    How To Have Executive Presence Part Two
    2026/09/28
    In Part One, we looked at the mental barrier created when Japanese executives believe their English must be perfect before they can communicate with confidence. Once that hurdle is cleared, executive presence becomes much more practical. Eye contact, voice, gestures and posture can all be coached. The challenge is that several of these behaviours run directly against familiar Japanese cultural norms about modesty, politeness and not standing out. Why can executive presence feel unnatural for Japanese executives? Executive presence requires Japanese executives to stand out, be heard and project confidence, even though traditional Japanese social norms often reward modesty and fitting in. That cultural tension means the physical techniques are usually easier to understand than to adopt. Appearing unsure, timid, shy, modest or bashful can be interpreted positively in Japan because these behaviours avoid drawing unnecessary attention to oneself. International executive communication often demands the opposite. On stage, in a conference or in a senior meeting, the executive has to become more visible and deliberately command attention. The role has changed from ordinary interpersonal interaction to professional performance. Coaching therefore has to address mindset as well as technique, because simply telling someone to "look confident" does not remove years of cultural conditioning. Mini-summary: Executive presence requires permission to stand out. Japanese executives need to recognise that presenting and senior-level communication demand a different behavioural mode. How much eye contact creates executive presence? Around six seconds of direct eye contact can engage an individual without becoming excessively intrusive.Used across the room, deliberate eye contact makes an executive appear more confident, credible and connected to the audience. Direct eye contact carries different cultural expectations. In many Western business settings it is associated with credibility and trust, whereas Japanese people may be taught to avoid staring directly into another person's eyes and instead look toward the forehead or throat. When presenting, however, the executive's role is different from an everyday conversation. They need to engage people individually and make the audience feel included. Coaching can help executives become comfortable with this unfamiliar behaviour until they realise they were always physically capable of doing it; the real barrier was mental. Mini-summary: Use deliberate eye contact to engage the room. About six seconds gives enough connection to create impact without turning the interaction into a stare. Why does vocal power matter for executive presence? A strong voice helps an executive sound confident and ensures the message reaches the audience with authority. A small, quiet voice can disappear in the room and allow attention to drift away. Speaking loudly can feel impolite to Japanese executives, so increasing volume often creates considerable discomfort during coaching. Video replay is particularly useful. Executives may feel as though they are shouting when instructed to project more strongly, yet when they watch the recording they often discover that they simply look and sound confident. Volume is only one element. Voice modulation and greater vocal range help emphasise important ideas and project more power. The objective is not constant loudness but sufficient amplification and variation to support the message. Mini-summary: Project the voice rather than protecting it. Use appropriate volume and modulation so confidence can be heard as well as seen. How should executives use gestures when presenting? Gestures should visibly reinforce the words being spoken rather than being hidden, frozen or disconnected from the message. Combining gestures with eye contact and vocal modulation creates a powerful impression of confidence and credibility. Japanese executives often hold their hands behind their backs because they are unsure what to do with them. Others lock their hands together in front of the body. These positions may feel stable, but they remove an important communication tool. Gestures can emphasise size, direction, importance and contrast. If something is large, the hands can show width; if something is tall or short, one hand can establish the measure. The gesture and the language must be congruent or the movement becomes a distraction rather than reinforcement. Mini-summary: Free your hands and make gestures purposeful. Let the movement visually strengthen the exact point you are making. How long should a presentation gesture last? A gesture has a short useful life and should normally be switched off rather than held indefinitely. Holding the same gesture for around fifteen seconds or longer can drain its impact and turn it into an irritating visual distraction. Effective gestures are dynamic. They appear when needed, reinforce the point and then disappear as the hands return ...
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  • How To Have Executive Presence Part One

    How To Have Executive Presence Part One
    2026/09/21
    Executive presence is often treated as something mysterious, but the practical requirement is straightforward: executives need to look and sound professional, command attention and be taken seriously. For Japanese executives operating internationally, one of the biggest barriers is not necessarily a lack of English grammar or vocabulary. It is the pursuit of linguistic perfection and the hesitation that follows when they fear making mistakes. What does executive presence mean for Japanese executives? Executive presence means being seen as professional, being listened to and being taken seriously. For Japanese executives on the international stage, that requires more than technical competence or seniority; they also have to communicate with enough confidence to command attention. At international conventions, conferences, meetings and presentations, executives from across Asia-Pacific compete for attention and influence. In my observation, executives from China, India and Korea often create greater impact than their Japanese counterparts. English capability is part of the equation, but the deeper issue is whether Japanese executives are willing to speak up and project themselves. If they remain quiet because they fear imperfect English, their expertise is effectively invisible to the room. Mini-summary: Executive presence requires visible confidence and communication. Expertise alone cannot create impact if the executive is reluctant to speak. Why does perfectionism weaken executive presence in English? The belief that English must be perfect before it is spoken creates hesitation, and hesitation quickly undermines executive presence. Japanese executives can become so concerned about defects and mistakes that they restrict how much they say. The Japanese emphasis on perfection can be a strength in many business settings, but it becomes a limitation when executives apply the same standard to communicating in a second language. Chinese speakers have a subject-verb-object grammatical structure closer to English, while many international Indian executives have been educated in English. Korean, however, shares the subject-object-verb structure of Japanese, making the comparison particularly interesting. The issue is therefore not simply language structure. Japanese executives can communicate in English, but fear of mistakes can persuade them not to try. Mini-summary: Stop making perfection the entry requirement for communication. Effective English does not have to be flawless English. Why do text-heavy slides reduce executive presence? When executives hide behind dense slides, the screen becomes the presenter and the executive surrenders the room. Executive presence requires the audience's attention to be on the speaker, with slides supporting rather than dominating the communication. A common response to anxiety about speaking English is to put enormous amounts of text on PowerPoint slides and then read that text aloud. The presenter feels safer because the wording has been prepared in advance, but the audience can already read. They quickly become bored, switch off and stop engaging with the executive. The slideshow has now taken control. Slides can certainly support an international business presentation, but they should never become a substitute for confident human communication. Mini-summary: Dominate the slides; do not let the slides dominate you. Keep audience attention on the executive rather than on blocks of text. How does fear of failure affect Japanese executives speaking English? Fear of embarrassment encourages executives to say less, yet saying less guarantees less presence in meetings and presentations. The safest way to avoid making a language mistake may appear to be staying silent, but that strategy also removes influence. When coaching Japanese executives, we have to address the assumption that linguistic perfection is necessary for effective communication. The source text also reflects on the broader cultural aversion to failure in Japan and an observation made by a guest on Japan's Top Business Interviews about historical and modern attitudes to responsibility for mistakes. Whatever the historical explanation, the practical coaching issue is clear: fear changes behaviour. Executives who are worried about errors hesitate, avoid contributing or speak without conviction. Mini-summary: Silence protects you from language mistakes but also removes your influence. Executive presence requires accepting some communication risk. Can imperfect language still communicate effectively? Yes. People routinely understand imperfect language because listeners automatically interpret meaning from context. The goal is successful communication, not a grammatically flawless performance. I demonstrate this to Japanese executives by deliberately mangling Japanese grammar and saying, "watashi Tokyo eki ikimasu". They immediately understand that I mean I am going to Tokyo Station. I then ask how they could ...
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