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I went to a workshop several years ago led by an “award-winning” comedian. I remember that his topic was about how to use humor in the workplace, and that his audience WIIFM (what’s in it for me) was that every one of us works with a fun-sucker – that person whose...
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You do not have to read the papers to know that things are bad at the U.S. Post Office. Lines are ridiculously long. The one postal clerk at the service desk is trying desperately to ignore the line of fuming customers. I have been to three different post offices in...
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One of my clients asked me to be straight with him and not to sugarcoat my feedback. He said, “I don’t want Paula Abdul, I want Simon Cowell.” OK, then. I offered this response: “When you slouch like that you add ten years to your age and you look unsure of...
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I would prefer to write my blog posts from the distant perspective of offering insight, encouragement and strategies to others for public speaking preparation and performance. But life isn’t always so neat and I walked into the fire of my own performance anxiety this...
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I remember standing at an Avis checkout counter in Charleston, South Carolina on my umpteenth business trip. I was bleary-eyed from the flight and I was hoping to sleepwalk through the transaction. The clerk handed me the keys to a car that was no bigger than a...
