2021

5 things not to do in the Taiwan Excellence Award presentation competition

5 Don’ts when presenting your product’s excellence: Reflections on the Taiwan Excellence Consultations

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Hundred of products compete every year for a chance to win 1 of 10 Gold Awards from TAITRA’s Taiwan Excellence Award competition. Based on my observations in past 2 years helping companies compete for the Gold Medal, there are 5 common problems that some presentations have that reduce their chances for getting the Gold Medal. The Taiwan Excellence Award competition requires a presentation that is like a logical argument for how the product excels in the 4 judging categories.

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Going for the Gold in the Taiwan Excellence Competition: The 8-4-3P Formula to Presenting Taiwan Excellence

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Out of hundreds of Taiwanese corporate applicants for the Taiwan Excellence Award, 30 are selected to compete for 10 Gold Medals. These companies need to prepare an 8-minute presentation in English demonstrating how their company’s new and innovative product excels in 4 categories: Design, R&D, Quality, and Marketing. Many smaller and less exeprienced countries are unsure how to put together this kind of competition presentation, and a poor presentation will certainly hurt the company’s chances for a Gold Medal. This article offers some guidelines for making a Gold-Medal-winning presentation.

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Outstanding video self-introduction in 3 steps

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Can you confidently, fluently and informatively introduce yourself in less than 60 seconds? This skill is rarely developed, yet it is a must-have skill for job-seekers.  How about a video self-introduction? Do you know how to plan, present and post-produce your video self-introduction to create a strong first impression?  If you don’t, then don’t do

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Templates for asking and writing recommendations

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When applying for a job, or making your Linkedin profile, recommendation statements and letters are an important way to show your strengths and make you look more credible. This is especially true if you are a recent graduate with little work experience or few accomplishments. The reference’s name, position and contact info can be added

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EFL10. Writing for Sharing Posts: 3 Steps to make them want to “… see more”

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If you want to share other’s content and get people to read it, you need to follow these 3 tips: hook + bullet summary + final comment or question.

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EFL 9. “Sharing” your way to better networking: Curating and sharing articles

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Sharing other people’s content is good for building your network on Linkedin. Here are some strategies for add value to shared content.

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6 Scientific Steps To Engaging Posts: Emblems and coffee in the age of information

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Follow this proven 6-step formula to write engaging and informative posts in less than 280 characters.

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EFL 8. Writing for Coffee and Readability: Maximizing your international audience

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People want easy to read posts to read on coffee break. This article will give examples of readable posts as well as tips and readability tools to help make your posts as readable as possible to get as many readers as possible.

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Boosting research visibility: A Science Communications template to help you turn your research into a good story

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By analyzing a good example and offering a template, this article will help you write an effective research story, reach a broad audience and increase your research visibility. There are basically six things you can do:
1. Immediately set the character/emotion/setting, 2. Immediately state the relatable problem, 3. Tell the story over a timeline, 4. Create a rising action toward the climax – positive results from research, 5. Set up a cliffhanger ending with caveats and/or implications for future research (story sequel) – possible light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel solution, 6. Use the right language.

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