Your feedback from last week’s blog strongly suggested there’s an appetite for a second helping of how to become a better video presenter. What follows is an organized hodgepodge (I think that’s an oxymoron?) of recommendations for better video presentations. I’ve divided them into a before, during and after format to make them easier to… read more

I don’t know about you but as the world slowly grinds to a halt and our sense of normalcy is pried from our unwilling hands, I have discovered more time for reflection. I am usually an obsessive, goal-oriented, forward thinker so I did not initially welcome this with open arms. In fact, it causes me… read more

If I were a gambling man, I would bet that, prior to a couple of weeks ago, if you heard the words corona and isolation used in combination, you most likely thought of the Corona commercials featuring someone sitting alone on a beach, squeezing a lime into a cold and refreshing beverage. Today, those words… read more

If you speak with any degree of regularity, you’ve most likely arrived at a venue and had the meeting organizer toss a ticking time bomb in your direction by saying something like, “I’m sorry but the previous speaker went over his time limit. We are trying to get back on schedule so we need you… read more

Arriving back at your office after delivering a high stakes presentation that, if successful, will lead to a second meeting with a prospect who could potentially double your company’s annual revenue, you find your team anxiously huddled around the entrance. As soon as you walk through the front door, they pop the question, “well, how… read more

The ultimate goal of every presenter, regardless of expertise, is to make their ideas click in the minds of their listeners to the point that they willfully follow them to their predetermined conclusion. Many well-intentioned speakers fall short of this goal because they falsely assume that their audience cares enough about their message to sort… read more

Have you ever received a text message that caused you to stop in your tracks, frown and quote Scooby Doo’s puzzled “huh”? If you’re anything like most people, your answer to that question is yes, which means you’ve had the experience of being inserted into the middle of a conversation by someone who unintentionally failed… read more