Team business pitches play a critical role in major organizations across industries. How can you ensure your team comes to the pitch prepared to win? Ruth Milligan and Acacia Duncan conducted a brief LinkedIn Live conversation about our recent learnings from coaching consequential team-based business pitches. Some highlights of the talk included: The Tuckman Model […]
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Welcome to 9×9 Friday, September 23 | 12 – 2 p.m. WOSU Ross Community Studio 9×9 is a TED-like showcase featuring 9 emerging speakers, each delivering a 9-minute talk. This event is produced by Articulation, under the direction of our founder, Ruth Milligan. Meet Our 9X9 Speakers Bios are provided below. Lachandra Baker
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June already? The first half of 2022 has been a whirlwind as we support our clients through storytelling, message development, transforming talks, and more. In fact, we’re on track for a record-breaking year. To you — our clients, partners, and friends — we say thanks! To ensure we can best serve you as we grow,
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World Book Day 2022 inspired us share a list of five notable books in our lives right now, for a variety of reasons. Without further ado: The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker This one seems more relevant now than when she published it in 2018. How to gather on zoom vs. live? How to re-gather?
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We’ve learned a lot here at Articulation in our role as speaker coaches over the last two decades. As we marked 20 years, we celebrated by compiling a list of our top 20 speaking tips. Take a look at these proven techniques to help improve your speaking performance, reduce anxiety, and avoid common pitfalls. 1.
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Today is the 20th anniversary of my entrepreneurial journey. Many of you know I started as a general communications operative and consultant (Speechwriting, PR, Media, Crisis) and made a hard turn into Executive Speech Coaching and Training after I curated and hosted the first TEDxColumbus event in 2009 with Nancy Kramer. I’ll finally also
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Leaders, Scientists and Innovators from Across the U.S. Now Seek Out Articulation to Help Them be Better Communicators Ruth Milligan is marking 20 years of entrepreneurship, having built one of the most sought out storytelling and communication coaching firms in the country. What began in 2002 as Milligan Communications is now known simply as Articulation.
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Here at Articulation, we’ve been hard at work coaching clients on everything from transforming talks to hot seat speaker training. And we’ve had some exciting changes on our team. We’re pleased to announce that Acacia Duncan has taken on the role of Director of Training and Coaching. In her newly created position, Acacia will helm
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Connecting in a virtual environment is hard– we all experienced that over the course of the last year as we adjusted to the world of Zoom, Teams, or whatever platform we found ourselves on. While coaching hundreds of speakers and facilitating group meetings and workshops, Articulation discovered how to foster connection by being intentional. Whether
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In the last few months, we’ve had a few clients who have had this same general story: They report after an important town hall, annual meeting, board presentation, oral pitch…. “The event went…well…okay. It would have been better if everyone had a chance to practice. And we didn’t have time to rehearse the day before.
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announcing
the motivated speaker
six principles to unlock your communication potential
In this book you will discover the six essential threshold concepts needed to give talks like the best TED speakers and Fortune 500 leaders.
The book will deliver May 2025.
Stay tuned for the launch!
