Rylan Grace and his Hero’s Journey – unpacked
With Artemis 11 venturing deeper into space than ever before, I was inspired. The closest thing I...
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Category: Presentation Skills
Does an accent help or hurt your presentation?
I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. While it wasn’t exactly the holler, nearly everyone outside my...
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What’s your warm-up routine before a big presentation?
My “S.O.P.” (standard operating procedure) has three parts: 1) A minute to visualize...
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What can Oscar acceptance speeches teach us?
If we are lucky, we will all have a moment or two in our lives when we are celebrated or...
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Stage Presence: Call up your Most Social Self
Anyone who presents wants to command attention, engage the audience, and elicit interaction. ...
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Jump In, Jump Up, Jump Out – Stories Make Facts Stick
When you don’t have a lot of time to tell a more involved story – jump in, jump up,...
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Communicate the Givens – unapologetically and enhance innovation
Recently, a leader I was advising was sorting out why her team’s engagement scores were low. She...
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Exuding Main Character Energy when it Matters
You may have come across the term “main character energy.” Most recently I heard Charlamagne tha...
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Clean a Closet, Find a Story
I have a closet in my home office space that is a disaster. It is bulging at its seams with old...
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Barbie and The Hero’s Journey
As I sat in a darkened movie theatre this week with salty tub of popcorn watching Barbie – I...
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Bring story-telling into your living room – build friendships and develop skills
If you are a fan of The Moth Radio Hour (https://themoth.org/radio-hour) as I am, you know the...
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Jumping The Gun – 5 Ways to Avoid a Communication False Start
There is always the intense excitement when you see runners in the starting blocks waiting for the gun to go off to signal the race is on. There is also the heartbreak of a runner who ‘jumps the gun’ which is also called a false start. There is absolutely an equivalent of the false start in communication and five ways to avoid it.
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