In the Jobs section of the New York Times, on Sunday March 30th, Phyllis Korkki has written an article entitled The Adroit Speaker Doesn’t Wing It. That’s true and not true. I believe wholeheartedly in preparing, rehearsing, getting feedback, even… Read More »Speaking Anxiety: Stage Fright
Recently, a client of mine, who is also a childhood friend, left me a voice mail saying that he did not think my short article on the power of gesture to create emotion was appropriate for the market I serve.… Read More »Speaking Anxiety: The Mind/Body Toggle
I have a new puppy named Little Bear. He has shy moments that make my wife and I want to pick him up and cuddle him. I also have clients who are shy when they stand up to speak. I don’t want to… Read More »Speaking Anxiety: Teaching the Shy to Present
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
I attended the World Health Care Congress in Washington and saw some remarkable presentations. Here is a brief synopsis from my notes. 33% of health care costs in the USA are cardio-vascular; 20% cancer; 11% diabetes; and 10% obesity. Does this mean that if… Read More »Effective Presentation Skills: Health Care Presentations
Let’s think of the mind of an audience as having two basic types of material–old impressions and memories of events actually experienced, and imaginative rearrangements of parts of these actual experiences which never really existed. For instance, remembering how your uncle looked when he… Read More »Presentation skills as personal development