I occasionally hear from clients that they don’t want to change their style as presenters. The implication is that any behaviors I recommend that are outside their range of normal will be artificial and ineffective. They just want to be… Read More »Presentation Coaching: Presenting Outside the Comfort Zone
Body language talks, or BLT for short. Something in the way we stand speaks volumes. Good posture is not only good health, it looks good. Why? Good posture communicates self-confidence and belief in what you have to say. It indicates… Read More »Public Speaking Tips: Persuasive Posture
Traveling to a foreign country, we will have trouble communicating with the locals if we don’t speak their language. We may also have trouble reading their facial expressions. Hillary Elfenbein of the University of California at Berkeley has done a study… Read More »Communication Skills Training: Facial Dialects
It pays to have friends in high places. Eric Schurenberg, a neighbor and friend of long-standing, has seen fit to cast me as a poster child for the road less taken to riches. Since I am not rich, and hardly… Read More »Executive Speech Coach Sims Wyeth in Money Magazine
With the average sales call in the pharmaceutical industry now shrunk to less than 30 seconds, medical liaisons have an important opportunity to engage the interest of key physicians at advisory board meetings. However, there are several common problems. First,… Read More »Facilitation skills for medical liaisons at ad boards
Keep your head relatively still most of the time when speaking! A case in point. My daughter took me to see Romeo and Juliet at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park on Father’s Day. Juliet waggled her head to express emotion. We… Read More »Communication Skills: The Head Waggle