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Here are two public speaking observations that still surprise me: 1. That my first 5 minutes facilitating a workshop unnerve me as much today as they did 35 years ago. 2. That the following refrain from workshop participants continues to be so recurrent, generic...
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Raise your hand if you have set a New Year’s Resolution that has something to do with improving your public speaking, presentation skills, or your ability to communicate effectively. Wow, that’s a lot of hands! Congratulations – it’s a worthy goal, and somewhere out...
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One of the blessings of our online connection is the ability to discover and learn from extraordinary speakers and presenters. The artists, teachers, business leaders, scientists, and students who inspire, delight and model a path for intelligent, respectful...
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…or a song, or an interview – really, any verbal communication that showed a genuine effort to rise above the mundane. And the winners are: “Give up all hope for a better past.” – Psychologist on self-help radio show “When someone says the average worker is doing...
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I am learning to take my own advice* and decided to open my most recent workshop with this cartoon. It was love at first sight – evoking laughter, truth, exaggeration, and wonder. The artist fully captures the death knoll of speaker anticipation. My favorite...
