{"id":10864,"date":"2017-10-15T02:51:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T10:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/?p=10864"},"modified":"2023-01-06T20:43:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T04:43:07","slug":"business-english-skills-360-making-your-speech-more-powerful-with-metaphors-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/15\/business-english-skills-360-making-your-speech-more-powerful-with-metaphors-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Skills 360 &#8211; Making your Speech more Powerful with Metaphors (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10864-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/bizpod\/360.63-Metaphor1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/bizpod\/360.63-Metaphor1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/bizpod\/360.63-Metaphor1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businessenglishpod.com\/quiz\/360.63POD\/index.html\" title=\"Business English Skills 360 Lesson - Using English Metaphors 1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Business-English-Skills-360-LESSON-Using-English-Metaphors-1-600x259.jpg\" alt=\"Skills 360 - Using Metaphors to Make your Speech More Powerful (1)\" width=\"600\" height=\"259\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Business-English-Skills-360-LESSON-Using-English-Metaphors-1-600x259.jpg 600w, https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Business-English-Skills-360-LESSON-Using-English-Metaphors-1-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Business-English-Skills-360-LESSON-Using-English-Metaphors-1-768x331.jpg 768w, https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Business-English-Skills-360-LESSON-Using-English-Metaphors-1-200x86.jpg 200w, https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Business-English-Skills-360-LESSON-Using-English-Metaphors-1-400x173.jpg 400w, https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Business-English-Skills-360-LESSON-Using-English-Metaphors-1.jpg 786w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/category\/business-english-360\/\" title=\"Business English Skills 360 podcast\">Skills 360<\/a> for today&#8217;s lesson on using metaphors to make your speech more powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever heard of Alfred Sloan? He was the head of General Motors during the Great Depression. He once gave a speech where he talked about GM at the time as a \u201cgreat ship in a fierce storm.\u201d From that description, you get a sense of danger, of a big boat getting tossed around in the unpredictable ocean waves. 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