Got stage fright?

Got stage fright?

May. 17, 2016 by

Speaking with stage fright is like driving with the emergency brake partially on.  Your whole body trembles, your mouth gets hot and dry, you can smell the smoke rising from your armpits, and you can’t get to where you want

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