This week Iâll be speaking at the Cityworks (X)po in Roanoke, Virginia. I was invited to speak on behalf of the TEDx global community, which now equates to 3417 events in 117 countries. Humbled, yes. Nervous, no. Since this is my âTEDxâ season, the content is omnipresent in the brain, especially thanks to a great hour-long talk show with our leading […]
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Everyone has their own preparation path toward great speaking, weâre thrilled to see what changes our clients have made in theirs. One of our clients shared with me in an email that her speaking style had improved so much after her sessions with us. I asked her for what strategies were helping HER the most.
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A client engaged us recently to architect a brand-new signature presentation. So we got out our very sophisticated tools: some markers, flip charts and a whole bucket of post it notes. But we find the questions we ask at every step arenât so simple: What insight can you reveal? So what? Why will your audience
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Last year when we launched ar.tic.u.la.tion in mid-summer, we had no idea that we’d get the overwhelming response that we did. Â Between individual style coaching, signature story development advising and some unique teaching opportunities, we feel very lucky. Â But we know we need to work hard for that luck, so here are the top 11
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A college professor commented that his students were giving him a wide range of feedback on his lectures. âSome students think Iâm the second coming and others think I’m a train wreck. What gives?â Having heard him speak at a public forum and also having had many conversations with him, the answer was pretty simple.
On Wednesday this week, Jan and I attended the âfinal examâ in Alaina Sheerâs presentation transformation.  I hadnât written about our style and delivery session that we had a few weeks ago as I knew there was some additional work to be done before she was really ready to present. Tuesday night we had a chance
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In todayâs New York Times, an illuminating story about multi-tasking adorned the front page. Itâs disintegrating our ability to focus, the research argues (I would personally agree!). And indeed, checking email, texting, facebooking, skyping, webinaring- whatever the task- must all be but aside for the careful work that is presentation preparation. I recently queried a PR
This is a note to organizers. Your role in getting a speaker ready to talk is as important as the speakerâs own preparation. In the last post about the âWhat Ifâ event, there was a fatal flaw on behalf of the organizers. I thought Iâd illuminate our top three forget-me-nots that every organizer needs to know.
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