Here’s where you’ll find insight into how we think and work, how we look and sound, and the tools we deploy to bring your goals to life. Our blog stretches way back, so you might want to peruse the list to see what strikes your interests or needs. Our videos offer a glimpse of several of our coaches — as well as insights into our methods. And when you do work with us, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with our Resource Toolbox to make working with us that much easier.
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Our blog posts offer a rich gathering of insights, tips and suggestions designed to help you become more polished, more influential and more impactful in how you communicate with others. Skim to a title that strikes your interests or needs. And come back often because we are serious keeping it fresh and useful for storytellers everywhere.
For a better speech, take pause
Instead of suggesting to a fast talker to “slow down,” Ruth Milligan says try pausing instead. Watch this short video for public speaking tips.
How Speaker Coaching Can Level-Up a Conference
Speaker coaching support for your conference can go a very long way. Learn how one conference, Women in Analytics, learned they can level-up their conference when they support speakers in a manner that will not only distinguish the conference, but all of the speakers who present at it.
What’s the Problem: Getting Your Audience to Care
In public speaking, defining the problem that your idea addresses is far from a waste of time. In fact, if it is not clearly identified, you will have an even bigger problem on your hands: an audience that doesn’t care.
Conquering Columbus Podcast with Ruth Milligan
Articulation Founder Ruth Milligan sat down with the hosts of the popular podcast Conquering Columbus to share what she’s learned and experienced as an entrepreneur, founder of TEDxColumbus and community leader.
How Not to Give Feedback
Our founder and executive communication coach Ruth Milligan reflects on a time she made a massive mistake, breaking one of her own rules. She gave feedback to a speaker who didn’t request it.
When someone flip flops decisions at work. Is it a communication challenge?
I got my third phone call from a corporate client with the same set of unique communication challenges I had heard from two previous clients.
A Pitch for Good: Coaching for the Schmidt Futures Competition
Articulation’s executive communication coaches prepared Ohio State University students for the prestigious pitch competition hosted by Schmidt Futures.
Groundhog Day and the Culture of Storytelling
Executive Communication Coach Ruth Milligan reminisces about her Dad, Groundhog Day, and the culture of storytelling– and how it can bring people together.
The Art of the Pitch: Reflections on an Internal Pitch Competition
As Internal Pitch Competitions are become more popular, make sure to think of their benefits beyond the prize winnings. Our client engaged us to do just that and the results have been notable.
MLK and Storytelling: The Most Important Vision Talk Ever Communicated
On this blog where we only talk about storytelling, communications, presentations, speeches, talks, influence and more – the only appropriate post for today is MLK’s I Have a Dream speech. No one until that moment or after has delivered a more significant, consequential and memorable talk. Arguably the most important vision talk ever communicated.
New Series: The Cultures of Storytelling
I am hoping by now that everyone knows WHAT “storytelling” does for influencing and persuading audiences and WHY it works. Without citing any of the
Our Top 8 Thought Leadership Articles of 2018
Happy New Year! If you’re looking for top tips for public speaking and executive communications, this post is for you. we’ve rounded up our most popular articles from 2018.
Stepping out of the Lab: How to Translate Healthcare Insights for Your Audience
Our fourth quarter was a super interesting one, just like the first three of 2018. In short, it was a great year. In fact, our
How to Give a Killer Presentation: 10 Questions from UXDX
For the UXDX Conference in Ireland in 2019, I was invited to answer 10 questions about how to begin to get prepared to give a
How do you choose the one idea worth sharing in your speech?
Three public speaking tips from executive communication coach Acacia Duncan that can help you hone in on your one idea for a successful TED-style talk.
Coaching Speech Clients to Crank a Reluctant Wheel
Our speech coaching practice rests on iterating: Helping clients crank a reluctant wheel from event invite to idea to proof to story to imagery to delivery to reflection – and then starting all over again.
TED-style Talk Success: Leadership Matters
You could call it the TED talk effect. We have come to expect people to share complicated, technical, even scientific and medical concepts in an
One Lesson from 10 years of TEDxColumbus
As TEDxColumbus marks its 10th anniversary, let’s memorialize the culture of support that TEDxColumbus has created for the speakers to deliver such consequential and memorable talks.
