Group Meetings: Group Hug or Group Mug(ging)?
Group meetings can either be done well or very, very badly Every technical organization seems to have a big annual meeting of some sort. The last one of these that I attended was put on by an...
View ArticleGroup Meetings: More Gain, Less Pain
Four more suggestions on how to make technical team meetings more effective We’ve talked about the fact that group meetings, especially for technical teams, can be a large expense and a big waste of...
View Article10 Tips For Becoming A Public Speaker Who Can Talk About Money
It Can Be Hard To Do A Good Job Talking About Money Money – it’s a love / hate thing. We all would like to have lots of the stuff; however, most people (us included) would probably rather lose a...
View ArticlePaid Presentations: How To Become A Professional Speaker
Becoming A Professional Speaker Requires A Great Speech And Business Skills Not everyone dreams of becoming a paid presenter; however, as we labor over a speech we have all had that thought that...
View ArticleJust How Does One Create A Keynote Presentation?
Creating A Keynote For A Graduation Dinner Required Careful Planning Tis the season for college graduations and I was recently asked to deliver a keynote speech as part of an engineering graduation...
View ArticleWhy Your Audience Wants Bad Things To Have Happened To Their Presenter
Presenters Need To Use Their Personal Stories About Facing Challanges To Reach Their Audiences Today’s audiences are a jaded bunch. In fact, a Gallup Poll shows that just 16% of us have a favorable...
View ArticleWhen Presenters Run Out Of Ideas, It’s Time To Read A Book
Presenters Can Get New Ideas By Reading More Books Sometimes when we are called on to give a presentation, we sit down to create the presentation only to find that our creative juices have somehow run...
View ArticleHow To Write The Perfect Speech
The Perfect Speech Needs To Contain The Perfect Stories Last week I had the opportunity to give the perfect speech. Now, you might be offended by this statement and are probably wondering just how I...
View ArticleHow To Make Your Two Minutes Count
How Would You Use Two Minutes To Make Your Point? When you speak to an audience, how long do you talk for: 60 minutes, 30 minutes, 10 minutes? Any of these are normal answers. What would you do if you...
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