One Client’s Pathway to Resonance
September 30, 2011
Everyone has their own preparation path toward great speaking, we’re thrilled to see what changes our clients have made in theirs. One of our clients
The Coaches’ Coach
September 21, 2011
My normal client is the person or team that wants to up their game in their critical thinking, storytelling and/or presentation skills. Last week I
The problem with the panel
September 13, 2011
Let me thank the panelists from last week’s Women and Marketing event at TECHColumbus :Joan Manter,Nancy Bohman,Amy Marshall and Padma Sastry. I won’t repeat the content of
Syndication
September 8, 2011
For someone who has gotten rid of regular TV in the last six months, syndication has new meaning to me: the ability to have your
Elevators rarely get stuck.
August 11, 2011
Great critical thinking, provocative storytelling, clear governing thought and memorable supporting points. All in 60 seconds. It can be done!! How so? Listen here (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/412/million-dollar-idea?act=1)
Stale corporate events, no more!
August 4, 2011
A year ago TED unveiled a new corporate program where “private” TEDx licenses could enable corporations to host their own internal TEDx events. The guidelines
What’s your hook?
July 22, 2011
Late last year when we started paying close attention to good opening hooks, we started noting those TED talks that had particularly good ones. In this 3
The heavy lifting is yours
July 18, 2011
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
Hook ’em.
July 18, 2011
Everyone has their pet peeves. I have my pet loves. Among them, really awesome opening hooks. As in, how do you grab your audience from
You sure you got the right analogy?
July 7, 2011
Last week during one of our Influential Storytelling trainings, a participant was proud of herself for using an analogy to get a point across to the COO