Creating 10,000 presentations in the course of your career and rehearsing them all with great care will not necessarily guarantee you presentation mastery. Neuroscience, and common sense, show that factors other than blind repetition must prevail. For example, if your… Read More »Rehearsing Presentations: Is there a better way to practice?
The inspiration for business presentation success can come from anywhere. Hamlet, for instance. Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark in Shakespeare’s play called Hamlet, written around 1603. In the play, Hamlet retains a troop of actors to stage a play he’s… Read More »Business Presentation Success: Hamlet the Speech Coach
Here in New Jersey, scientists grow on trees and work in laboratories, developing and testing molecules for bio-tech and pharmaceutical companies. Every day, they leave the known world to explore microscopic molecular places and witness scenes that quite possibly no… Read More »Science and Business: The Story of a Lost Mousse
A presentation is a tool made of words and numbers, information and opinions. In many circumstances, it’s purpose is to help an audience make a decision or a prediction. But the source of those words, the speaker, must be trusted… Read More »Persuading others: Who should deliver the talk?
I was looking for my childhood home on Google Earth, caught a glimpse of it from 30,000 feet, then zoomed in and saw my mother’s herb garden at the bottom of the lawn. My Mom and Dad are gone now,… Read More »Two ways to structure a speech or presentation
If you are present in a conversation or a meeting, you demonstrate your engagement by listening, responding, and then paying attention to how the other person receives your response. I have found a listening technique called Motivational Listening (ML) to… Read More »Leadership Skills: Listening Technique