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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...
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In 1976, I spent a fairly miserable freshman year at Penn State University. This had everything do with me and not so much with the University; we were a clear mismatch. I was unhappy in ‘Happy Valley’ and this was never more apparent than on those autumn Saturdays...
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Every Saturday during football season, when there’s a home game, 105,000 spectators pack Beaver Stadium in sleepy State College, Pennsylvania. Faces are flush with anticipation, the band is playing a peppy tune, and everyone is happy in Happy Valley. A few minutes...
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My kids and I have a standing joke. As soon as someone says, “No offense, but…” that is pretty much a guarantee that you are about to be very offended. In the same way, when a sales person says, “trust me” twenty times in a half hour meeting,...
