How much detail should you include in a speech or presentation? You want to be sure that your talk is meaningful and covers all the bases. However, you don’t want to be so laborious that you lose listeners along the… Read More »How Much Detail Should You Include?
John Richardson offers this easy to digest outline for giving feedback. It’s valuable to people who need to guide others to be more effective. There are three forms of feedback: Appreciation: Encouragement, praise, acknowledgment. Focus on the individual, not the individual’s performance. Coaching: Advice intended… Read More »Feedback: 13 Ways to Help Improve People’s Performance
Is your opening interesting? If not, get busy or you’ll lose your audience. Churchill said that in order to deliver a good speech, you have to have a strong opening and a dynamic ending and you need to put those… Read More »10 Questions Speakers Need to Answer
In 1996 I started out writing short blogs. I figured that since I liked short stuff, others would too. And to an extent, it worked. People often said they read my blogs because they were short. My book, The Essentials… Read More »Simplicity, Brevity, and their Step-Brother, Tenacity
There is a dark side of training. A few years back there was an article in The Wall Street Journal about corporate training. It said flat-out that training without follow-up coaching doesn’t work. It’s a waste of time and money.… Read More »Dark Side of Training
Many moons ago I went to California to work for Jump. Jump is a company that reengineers, transforms, and gives birth to other companies. Check them out. The company has a rare and remarkable culture. They wanted their… Read More »A Better Coach Thanks to Jump