20 Apr,2022 | Uncategorized
You can read three books on riding a bicycle, but until you put your feet on the pedals you won’t start learning to ride. You can gain knowledge about speaking from reading books and watching seminars, but you ultimately learn to present better by presenting...
26 Aug,2014 | Coaching, Coaching for Leaders
Earlier this summer, I attended a rather formal event with several speakers slated. As the program began, there was a slight pause, followed by the first speaker suddenly running up on stage. He apologized profusely for being out of sorts and made some mention of...
29 Apr,2014 | Coaching, Coaching for Leaders
Almost everyone I know has engaged in difficult conversations in the workplace…but what do you do when that difficult conversation needs to happen with an audience, during a presentation? Virtually every time I conduct a workshop or training session on...
19 Feb,2014 | Coaching, Coaching for Leaders
When I was in college, I was required to take a class in business law. While it wasn’t my area of study, I was interested in the legal system and excited about the class. I went to one of those large, public universities where it’s not unusual to have...
1 Oct,2013 | Coaching, Coaching for Leaders
About nine years ago, I was coaching a team of engineers from an oil refinery on presentation skills. I went to lunch with a group of them one afternoon, and we got to talking about how gasoline is made. I asked about how the different grades of gasoline are made that...
