After completing an editing project for some authors whose mother tongue is not English, I summarized their common errors. I believe these notes will help those in the GSF. English has abundant infuriating and illogical rules! Knowing them does simplify communication and we must keep our communication simple in our globalized world. Many anglophones, even professional speakers, make some of the mistakes I will explain (and for them I wrote Winners Speak Globish).  Bad English can be heard every day on the TV and radio, and I read these kind of errors frequently—even in the New York Times.

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This kid walked onto stage at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in central London on Friday night and blew the sell- out audience away. He didn’t dance, he didn’t sing, he just spoke. It wasn’t a Strictly Britain’s Got X-Factor type contest, but an old style speaking competition. And boy could this boy talk. 

Najae Hackett, from Southwark spoke about sleep. He was hilarious. Like many teenage boys, he spends a lot of time in bed, but claims that it’s all for the good of the world. If more people had a good night’s sleep there would be less car crashes in the morning.

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As a knowledge Manager for Meeting Professionals International (MPI), I am responsible for the overall development, design and aggregation of MPI content for use in various delivery channels, to include live events, on-line learning, chapters and others. This includes the speaker selection of various MPI professional development programs, projects, and products worldwide.

I am a liaison to our industry, gathering information and turning that information into valuable and useful knowledge, as well as determining new trends as they develop for creation of new knowledge. I can only be successful in my role when I can utilize my network and keep myself up to date on the latest trends inside, but also especially outside my own industry. Attending the Global Speakers Summit provides me with a great opportunity to connect directly with a large Global community of professional speakers.  This is an excellent opportunity to enlarge my network and actively scout for new international speakers and subject matter experts which we can use in our programs, whilst getting up to date with industry trends which are larger than the meetings industry.

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Despite the problems and the stress, each time you are enriched and each time, hopefully, some people are inspired and motivated to go out and achieve their aspirations.  Roger Harrop talks about the ups and downs of being a professional speaker.

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How can you give yourself a creative boost? Discover the Curse of Knowledge and see that we human beings always think in fixed thinking patterns. This article explores the concept of thinking in “Yes and ...” instead of “yes but…”  to give a boost to your own creative skills, and a brief case-study of the start of www.newshoestoday.com.  When you stop thinking in ‘Yes but…’ you stop being an Ideakiller, and unleash new levels of creativity.

Read more about: “Yes and ...” and other ways to give yourself a creative boost