How Can I Connect with my Audience?
Presenters wonder, “How can I connect with my audience?” You can connect with your audience in many ways, but there is a rule of thumb. Essentially, you’ve got to find some similarity or commonality...
View ArticleWe Need Stories with a Purpose
I am usually allergic to buzzwords. A few years ago, when storytelling became a popular metaphor for public speaking, I began to feel a little grumpy. But I have been released temporarily from my...
View ArticleThe Paradox of Power Cues
How do you know who has the real power in your company? Yes, we know who has positional power. But do we know who has real, personal power? What are the behaviors that signify power–and what are the...
View ArticleImposter Syndrome
Syndrome belies success I have a client, President of a renowned think-tank, who came to me needing to raise “transformational gifts” for her organization. She came up from Georgia to work with me for...
View ArticleEverything and Something: Power of the Spoken Word
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 – 1895) was a self-taught English biologist specializing in comparative anatomy. He earned the nickname “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his advocacy of Charles Darwin’s theory of...
View ArticleThe Best Way to Learn
What is the best way to learn? A pottery teacher split her class into two halves. To the first half she said, “You will spend the semester studying pottery, planning, designing and creating your...
View ArticleHow to Introduce a Speaker
If you need advice on how to introduce a speaker look no further than Richard C. Borden’s 1935 classic Public Speaking as Listeners Like It. Here, collected and condensed, are the author’s inimitable...
View ArticleGo Ask Alex Honnold
Go Ask Alex Honnold… …the guy who climbed the 3200 foot rock face of El Capitan in Yosemite National park without ropes, the “Greatest athletic feat of any kind EVER,” or so said the New York Times....
View ArticleHow to be an Off-The-Cuff Hero
There are dangers all around us. Not climate change, not food poisoning, not a car accident. Nope, it’s the danger of impromptu speaking. The CEO asks you a question. You stutter and can’t spit out...
View ArticleDon’t be Afraid of Rehearsal. Professionals Rehearse.
Bill Bradley, also known as Dollar Bill, the Ivy League star of the now bedraggled New York Knicks, once said, “When you’re not practicing, someone somewhere is, and when the two of you meet, assuming...
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