Don’t Boast

Don’t Boast

May. 3, 2016 by

Whenever you give yourself a compliment in front of an audience, you run the risk of being seen in a negative light. For instance, telling stories about how you won a big piece of business by being a super salesman

PowerPoint Fatigue

PowerPoint Fatigue

Apr. 19, 2016 by

I’m getting tired of PowerPoint slides.  So are a lot of people. Why? They are another tool that’s controlling us. They are excruciatingly predictable. We tend to use the slides as speaker prompts, not as aids to the audience. An

An Exercise That Can Make You a Spell-Binding Orator

An Exercise That Can Make You a Spell-Binding Orator

Apr. 6, 2016 by

I just got off the phone with a client who is working on being more assertive and fluid when he speaks. He complains, and I agree with him, that he starts speaking without knowing where his sentences are heading. Soon