I’ve just arrived in Greece to meet my wife, who has already been here for three weeks. She’s at a writer’s conference. While I’m here, I plan to visit the Parthenon and other temples of democracy (which technically the Parthenon… Read More »The Origin of Presentation Skills
Sims Wyeth & Co., a presentation skills training company, and a firm devoted to improving the public speaking skills of accomplished people, is pleased to announce that www.valuablecontent.co.uk has seen fit to give us a Valuable Content Award for sharing… Read More »Presentation skills website wins award for quality content
You know the saying in the telecom biz. You can have the greatest fiber optic network in the world, but if you don’t have the fiber running from the main pipe to every house on the block, you ain’t got… Read More »The last mile in high stakes presentations
Psychologists have demonstrated that people approve of differing responses to crime when it is presented as either a ‘beast’ or a ‘virus’ ravaging society. In the case of the ‘beast’ metaphor, respondents were more likely to call for strong law… Read More »Presentation Tips and Tricks: The Power of Metaphor
The original Olympics were a religious festival meant to occasion the divine spark in man. The early Greeks believed that humans could come close to being gods when competition pulled the best out of them. They also believed that humans… Read More »Public Speaking as Olympic Sport
Ninety percent of emotional communication is nonverbal. Gestures are an unconscious language that we use to express not only our feelings but to generate them as well. By making a gesture, we help produce an internal state. Amy Cuddy, a… Read More »Gesture is one of the languages of high-stakes presenting