I believe one of the best models for presenting skills is the act of giving directions to someone who has stopped her car, leaned out the window, and said, “How do I get to Bloomfield Avenue?” If you’re standing in front of your house, and you… Read More »Presentation Skills: Doing it in the road
Um and His Cousin Er I hate speech coaches who don’t let you say “Um!” I listen to a lot of speakers, and a few “Uhms” don’t bother me. They make the speaker seem normal and conversational. On the other… Read More »Speech Training: Speech Disfluencies
Back in the days before Gutenberg, it took months or years for a few dedicated scribes to create a single copy of a single book. A literate medieval person, provided he or she was not interrupted by the Inquistion or… Read More »Effective Speaking: Keeping Attention
Many of us are familiar with the work of Dr. Albert Mehrabian of Stanford University, who demonstrated in his research that 85% of emotion is communicated through voice tone and body language. Many of us have read Blink, by Malcolm… Read More »Voice Projection: The Power of Voice Tone
Dan Heath looks like a buttoned up sportscaster as he sits in front of the New York skyline at a broad cherry desk. His brother Chip sits next to him, looking gleefully wonkish, with wire-rimmed glasses and a broom of fine… Read More »Presentation Tips: Super Glue Presentations
As PowerPoint reaches its 20th birthday, Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal reflects on our love/hate relationship with “one of the most elegant, most influential and most groaned-about pieces of software in the history of computers”: While PowerPoint has… Read More »PowerPoint Presentation Skills: PowerPoint’s 20th Birthday