How to control negative questioners
It’s not often that a business audience will go negative on you, but it happens. Here’s how to stay in control of your listeners and yourself: 1. Prepare key messages for your talk so you can find your way back to
The Best Way to Lose an Audience
In 80 BC, Cicero, the great Roman orator and statesman, set off for the Eastern Mediterranean on something like a cross between a gap year and oratory boot camp—showing, again, how he regarded oratory as a physical more than simply
Use the hook and eye technique
To make the complex clear, use the hook and eye technique. The hook and eye technique makes the object of the preceding sentence the subject of the following sentence. Don’t worry, it’s simpler than it sounds. Here’s an example: “Rupert