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The alchemy of a great presentation has lots of moving parts – content, personal presence, audience focus, and the body as vehicle for communication. Coaching speakers is so dynamic because individual preparation needs are so different. But, one issue emerges so...
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You may recall that SWP’s goal for 2013 is to eradicate “Death by PowerPoint.” We want to do our part in saving people from the pain and suffering associated with slide after slide of bulleted text, punctuated only by this guy on the right: the stick figure guy. I...
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I didn’t want to do it. I wasn’t going to do it. I sat down at 8:30 pm to record the Oscars with no intention of sitting there for three and a half hours. But, the lure, the beauty, the theater, the very American pageantry of winners and losers and all the drama...
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The following post is an excerpt from Barbara’s forthcoming book, Commit to Confidence, due out in a couple of weeks. Let me ask you a question. What can increase your self-confidence, make you feel incredibly powerful, offer an enormous degree of satisfaction, and...
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Right up until I saw Marco Rubio reach up and wipe the dripping sweat off his temple, I was barely paying attention. At that moment, though, I perked up. Suddenly, I was very interested – not for the politics, but for the potential public speaking Do’s and Don‘ts...
