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sábado, 3 de junio de 2017

Seis modos de verse más confiando cuando se habla en público




6 maneras de verse más confiado durante una presentación
Kasia Wezowski | Harvard Business Review




Hace varios años, colegas y yo fuimos invitados a predecir los resultados de un concurso de lanzamiento en Viena, donde 2.500 empresarios tecnológicos competían para ganar miles de euros en fondos. Observamos las presentaciones, pero en lugar de prestar atención a las ideas que los empresarios estaban lanzando, estábamos observando el lenguaje corporal y las microexpresiones de los jueces mientras escuchaban.

Dimos nuestra predicción de quién ganaría antes de que los ganadores fueran anunciados y, como nosotros y la audiencia pronto aprendimos, estábamos bien. Habíamos estropeado la sorpresa.

Dos años más tarde nos invitaron de nuevo al mismo evento, pero esta vez, en vez de mirar a los jueces, observamos a los concursantes. Nuestra tarea no era adivinar a los ganadores, sino determinar cómo la comunicación no verbal de los presentadores contribuyó a su éxito o fracaso.

Evaluamos a cada empresario potencial en una escala de 0-15. La gente anotó puntos por cada signo de lenguaje corporal positivo y confiado, como sonreír, mantener contacto visual y gestos persuasivos. Perdieron puntos por cada señal negativa, tales como inquietud, movimientos rígidos de las manos y ojos evitados. Encontramos que los concursantes cuyos lanzamientos fueron calificados en los ocho primeros por jueces de la competencia anotaron un promedio de 8.3 en nuestra escala de 15 puntos, mientras que aquellos que no colocaron en ese nivel superior tuvieron una puntuación promedio de 5.5. El lenguaje corporal positivo estaba fuertemente correlacionado con resultados más exitosos.

Hemos encontrado correlaciones similares en el ámbito político. Durante las elecciones presidenciales estadounidenses de 2012, realizamos un estudio en línea en el que 1.000 participantes -tanto demócratas como republicanos- vieron videos de dos minutos con Barack Obama y Mitt Romney en los eventos de la campaña, ofreciendo contenido neutro y emocional. Webcams grabó las expresiones faciales de los espectadores, y nuestro equipo analizó seis emociones clave identificadas en la investigación psicológica: feliz, sorprendido, asustado, disgustado, enojado y triste. Codificamos el tenor de la emoción (positivo o negativo) y lo fuerte que parece expresarse. Este análisis demostró que Obama provocó respuestas emocionales más fuertes y menos negativas. Incluso un número significativo de republicanos -16% - reaccionó negativamente a Romney. Y cuando analizamos el lenguaje corporal de los candidatos, encontramos que el Presidente se parecía a los de nuestros ganadores del concurso de tono. Él mostró principalmente posiciones abiertas, positivas, confiadas congruentes con su discurso. Romney, por el contrario, a menudo emitió señales negativas, disminuyendo su mensaje con expresiones faciales y movimiento contradictorias y distrayentes.

Por supuesto, la elección no dependía del lenguaje corporal. Tampoco los resultados de la competencia de puesta en marcha. Pero los tipos correctos de comunicación no verbal se correlacionaron con el éxito.

¿Cómo puede enviar las mismas señales y, con suerte, generar el mismo éxito? En el Center for Body Language, hemos estudiado líderes exitosos en una amplia gama de campos e identificado varias posiciones que son indicadores del lenguaje corporal eficaz y persuasivo.

La caja



Al principio de la carrera política de Bill Clinton, puntuaría sus discursos con grandes y amplios gestos que le hacían parecer indigno de confianza. Para ayudarlo a mantener su lenguaje corporal bajo control, sus asesores le enseñaron a imaginar una caja delante de su pecho y vientre y contener sus movimientos de la mano dentro de él. Desde entonces, "la caja de Clinton" se ha convertido en un término popular en el campo.

Sosteniendo la pelota




Gesticular como si estuviera sosteniendo una pelota de baloncesto entre las manos es un indicador de confianza y control, como si casi literalmente tuviera los hechos a mano. Steve Jobs usó frecuentemente esta posición en sus discursos.

Manos de pirámide




Cuando la gente está nerviosa, sus manos a menudo flit alrededor y inquietarse. Cuando están seguros, todavía lo están. Una forma de lograrlo es unir ambas manos en una pirámide relajada. Muchos ejecutivos de negocios emplean este gesto, aunque tenga cuidado con el uso excesivo o emparejándolo con expresiones faciales dominantes o arrogantes. La idea es mostrar que estás relajado, no presumido.

Amplia postura




La forma en que la gente está de pie es un fuerte indicador de su mentalidad. Cuando usted se coloca en esta posición fuerte y constante, con sus pies sobre una anchura del hombro aparte, señales que usted siente en control.

Palmas arriba




Este gesto indica apertura y honestidad. Oprah hace un uso fuerte de esto durante sus discursos. Ella es una figura poderosa e influyente, pero también parece dispuesta a conectarse sinceramente con la gente que está hablando, sea una persona o una multitud de miles.

Palmas hacia abajo



El movimiento opuesto puede verse positivamente también, como un signo de fuerza, autoridad y asertividad. Barack Obama lo ha usado a menudo para calmar a una multitud justo después de momentos de oración animada.

La próxima vez que haga una presentación, intente grabarla, luego revise el video con el sonido apagado, viendo sólo el lenguaje corporal. ¿Cómo te mantuviste y gesto? ¿Utilizó alguna de estas posiciones? Si no es así, piense en cómo podría hacerlo la próxima vez que esté delante de una audiencia, o siquiera hablar con su jefe o con un gran cliente. Practica frente a un espejo, luego con amigos, hasta que se sientan naturales.

La comunicación no verbal no necesariamente lo hará o le romperá como líder, pero podría ayudarlo a lograr resultados más exitosos.


lunes, 8 de julio de 2013

Las ferias como eventos de marketing

Why events are the final frontier in data-driven marketing

Lawrence Coburn is CEO and co-founder of DoubleDutch.
A few weeks ago, VentureBeat ran an article discussing how to get the best Return-on-Investment (ROI) when attending a tradeshow. It was a great piece, but the reverse question — how an organizer can measure ROI from an event — is an even trickier proposition.
It actually seems a bit odd that this question hasn’t been answered already. As technology budgets shift from the CIO to the CMO, Silicon Valley (and elsewhere) is rapidly becoming awash in data-driven marketing tools designed to help CMOs optimize that spend.
Yet event marketing continues to coast blissfully along, untroubled by nagging data insights. While an organizer will call an event a success, once you scratch the surface you find most of this “success” has been measured via anecdotal information and qualitative data as opposed to empirical evidence.
The optimists among us would say that this ability to survive – and even thrive – while running nearly blind (in a data sense) is a testament to just how valuable events are to marketers.  By doing the bare minimum of scanning some badges and retrieving a .csv file of leads three days after an event, CMOs are still seeing enough ROI to continue to spend – and spend big – on events.
But the pessimists among us are starting to get antsy.  Take, for example, the CMO Council, who in a recent study pronounced that trades shows and other events are falling woefully behind other marketing techniques in terms of measurable ROI. In an interview with CMO.com by Liz Miller, vice president of marketing programs and thought leadership for the CMO Council, said, “Marketers are looking for new, improved measurement and how to extract value from [events].”
Just how big is the event marketing budget?  PriceWaterhouseCooper estimates that $108 billion is spent per year in just the production of events in the US, which makes events a bigger industry overall than even the US automotive industry.  That same report puts event marketing at #2 in the overall marketing spend, just behind advertising.
Personally, I think spending such a huge amount of money without a clear understanding of ROI is reckless. In its current state, if I were in charge of the Event Marketing Industry I would likely be retargeting my spending to areas where I at least know what I’m getting.
The good news, however, is that there are seismic shifts happening around evaluating event ROI: specifically, companies are helping event organizers access data that was previously in the dark.
Probably the biggest difference between live events today and in 1992 is that most, if not all, attendees are carrying a smartphone with them. While paper business cards, booth babes, and hardware scanners remain pretty much unchanged, many people are leaving digital trails of their interests and interactions at events by using their smart devices
This data – captured by smartphones and pushed to the cloud – will eventually power a modern, data-driven approach to event marketing.
Much like how website analytics packages can be used to optimize websites for conversions, so too can live event data be used to optimize events.  Event organizers no longer have to rely on surveys to understand which elements of their event worked, and which ones did not.  They just need to look at the data from their event app (and perhaps take a quick look at tweetstream).
One of the areas crying out for optimization is in maximizing leads for exhibitors, who fund much of the industry. By using data logged by smartphones, event organizers can begin to map – and even proactively initiate – connections between attendees and exhibitors, thus helping exhibitors find the leads they desperately crave. The holy grail will be if event organizers can deliver more leads to exhibitors than the ones who physically walk up to a booth to get their badges scanned.
I suspect they can.
Event marketing has survived for many years as a giant, idyllic, data free island in the rapidly quantifying sea of marketing.
But that will not remain the case for much longer.
Lawrence CoburnLawrence Coburn is CEO and co-founder of DoubleDutch, a mobile technology provider for corporations, associations, and trade shows worldwide. 

Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/28/why-events-are-the-final-frontier-in-data-driven-marketing/#ERZgl8J5c7pKCv7l.99 

domingo, 7 de julio de 2013

Retorno a la inversión de asistir a una feria comercial

Mastering trade show ROI (or, How to get sent to your favorite shows every time)


Cameron Peron is VP Marketing at Newvem
When was the last time you went to a tradeshow?
How did you measure the impact that the event had on your business or personal goals?  Attending tradeshows is more than just cruising the aisles and looking and exhibitor booths. Understanding the inherent mechanics of trade shows, executing a well-defined game plan, and measuring the results in your professional life can make the difference between a useless visit and a game changing trip.
And, of course, going to interesting shows and great places more and more often.

Attending a trade show is an investment

We exhibited at AWS re:Invent in November 2012, making a major investment to meet Amazon Web Services (AWS) users in order to help them improve and optimize their cloud infrastructure.
For an attendee the ticket price cost $1,000 just to set foot in the door. Put airfare, hotel room, and a decent expense budget into the picture and an attendee could easily spend $4,000 – $5,000.  For a show attendee justifying an investment like this, both in terms of hard cash and time, is hard if not impossible to achieve.  Especially when managers and other staff see an empty desk for a few days.
Or is it?
Break down the expectations from the event and consider an active game plan (both during and after the event) to measure the time and money ROI the event cloud potentially deliver. Let’s take a closer look.
There are two main areas that a trade show can show a valuable impact on the company: knowledge and deals.

Gaining knowledge

Many tradeshows offer breakout sessions to learn from experts in a specific field of work, industry or vertical.  Think of an accelerated course to capture knowledge that could improve your ability to solve specific issues, learn best practices, and improve workflow analysis and overcoming issues as they come along.
But breakouts are not limited to your direct line of work.
For example if you’re on the sales and marketing side, attending breakout sessions of an IT, cloud, or IT operations event can help improve your knowledge of the everyday flow your customers and prospect are experience. Leveraging this knowledge cloud have a direct impact on your day to day operations (e.g., improving cloud availability for DevOps) or give you added insights on how to engage your customer base (e.g., understanding what factors are important for DevOps to address when improving availability).

Deals, deals, deals

The objective here is to show measurable value in starting new deal flow, accelerating conversions in the pipe, and improving value from existing business. There are a few methodologies to include in your in-event game plan to ensure you allocate the optimal amount of focused time:
  • Reach out to everyone related in your industry and start booking meetings
  • Take an assertive approach and book 15-30 min time slots based on the objective you want to achieve.  Don’t stop until you get an answer.Total time investment: 50%
  • Book sessions with exhibitors in advance
    This is important. Randomly cruising show floor booths is not a preferred strategy unless you’re open to discuss partnerships. Consider that each booth potentially represents months of planning and budget negotiation, meaning that each staff member at the booth is focused on building new business themselves.   Booking time in advance will ensure a decent amount time to carry out your main objective rather than randomly pulling someone out of their booth.Total time investment: 40%
  • Cruise the show to understand the landscape.
    Some of your time must be invested in cruising the show to better understand the landscape, identifying potential partners, keeping tabs on competitors (both future and current), and staying in touch with associates.Total time investment: 10%
Understanding the underlying mechanics of a trade show and putting the right game plan to harvest the value at the show — and execute when you return to the office — can help you win budget each and every time you hit a new show.

Cameron Peron is VP Marketing at Newvem, a cloud operations optimization service designed for Windows  Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud users. Offering a business view into a company’s public cloud operations, Newvem actively tracks cloud health in order to help reveal and solve cloud irregularities related to cost, security, utilization and availability.  Follow Cameron at @cameronperon.

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