4th February Reading Time: 4 minutes What's going on? These days, Barcelona is almost as cold and busy as London! If your January was anything like ours, you've had a busy start to the year. I hope it was as good as it was busy. Either way, here's your monthly dose of Top Tips, a fantastic bit of English Humour and some interesting information about our new season of 1-day workshops with the British Chamber of Commerce. Warm Regards,      Lydia's Top Tips What's the best way to deliver my presentation? How you deliver your presentation has greater impact on your audience than the actual words you speak. People do not carry away information from a presentation. They carry away an impression. What kind of impression? An impression that is built upon verbal and non-verbal communication. When making your delivery to an audience you use both verbal and non-verbal channels to communicate your message. To give an effective delivery, you must become skilled at both. The verbal channel represents 7% of the message. The non-verbal channel conveys how you look and sound. It brings the remaining 93% of your message to the audience. To understand how these channels operate it is important to identify and... Click here to read the rest of Lydia's top tips for this month. Click here to forward these tips to a friend or colleague. A little English humour... This month's joke comes from Virginia Pelejero at KAO Corporation: This conversation includes the following people: Condi Rice (National Security Advisor), Kofi Annan (Secretary-General of UN), Hu Jin Tao (New Chief of the Communist party in China), Yassir Arafat (President of Palestinian Council) and George W Bush (President of USA). We take you now to the Oval Office... George: Condi! Nice to see you. What's happening? Condi: Sir, I have the report here about the new leader of China. George: Great. Lay it on me. Condi: Hu is the new leader of China. George: That's what I want to know. Condi: That's what I'm telling you. George: That's what I'm asking you. Who is the new leader of China? Condi: Yes. George: I mean the fellow's name Condi: Hu. George: The guy in China. (Click here to finish reading the joke...) If you have any good jokes that you'd like to suggest for next month's newsletter, drop me an email with your suggestion and we'll publish the winning entry. New Programs Do you think you could be giving better presentations, negotiating a better deal or building a more successful career? Our British Chamber of Commerce 1-Day Workshops could help you with these and many other key business abilities. You can sign-up individually or apply a discount as a group. Presentations (February 13) - Como comunicar sus ideas con concision y confianza en las reuniones internacionales. English & Skills for PA's (February 27) - Como dar una buena impresion por telefono, e-mail, fax, informes y reuniones. Negotiating Techniques (March 20) - Tecnicas eficaces para negociar y diferencias en la manera de comunicarse con personas de distintas culturas. Opening Doors (April 10) - Poderosas tecnicas de venta y conocimientos culturales para alcanzar exito en las ventas internacionales. Who moved my cheese? (May 8) - Cambios en la Direccion de la empresa, encarando las oportunidades internacionales con seguridad y competencia. To learn more about our programs, take a look at the overview on our website, send us an email or give us a call at 93 238 7140. Advance Communication provides professional and personal development programs to companies and executives in Spain. This includes Specialised Seminars for departments or teams (presentations, meetings, sales, negotiations etc), Certification & Testing in Business English (with the British Chamber of Commerce & London Chamber of Commerce), and Executive Coaching. PRIVACY: We do NOT distribute your email address to any 3rd parties. Advance Communication, Via Augusta 2, 5º, 08006 Barcelona, Spain. Phone: 93 238 71 40 | Fax: 93 415 04 62 | Web: www.advancecommunication.biz Copyright © 2002 Advance Communication, S.L. All rights reserved.