Getting carried off on a tangent in an interview or Q&A session can be risky. At best, you spend...
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Ep. 74 Why you need to rehearse — and how
Rehearsal doesn’t kill spontaneity — it gives you the confidence that lets you be spontaneous....
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Ep. 73 No more boring speaker introductions!
Before a speaker steps up to the microphone, there's usually somebody who introduces them. And...
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Ep. 72 Dana Rubin is Speaking While Female
Pick up a collection of speeches or quotations from history, and chances are most of those voices...
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You’ve probably heard the expression “stay in your lane.” And sometimes that’s good advice — but...
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Ep. 70 Find Your Red Thread with Tamsen Webster
There probably isn’t a speechwriter or speaker alive today who hasn’t heard the advice “Tell a...
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Ep. 69 Seven deadly sins of online presentation (part two)
Well over a year into remote presentations as the norm, people are getting pretty good at it......
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Ep. 68 Seven deadly sins of online presentations (part one)
Well over a year into remote presentations as the norm, people are getting pretty good at it......
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Ep. 67. Avoiding plagiarism: Are your words really your own?
Sure, you and I would never take someone else’s writing and pretend it was our own. But not all...
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Ep. 66. Keep the "thought" in thought leadership
So many leadership communications mistakes come down to one thing: not having a clear goal and a...
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Ep. 65. What we've learned from a year of remote presentations
Public speaking has changed a lot in the past year, since conference halls and auditoriums went...
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Ep. 64 I now pronounce you... correctly
Mispronouncing someone's name from the stage is a lot more than a minor screwup. Here's why...
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Ep. 63. Less is more, and short is beautiful
Presenting online? Don't make the mistake of thinking longer is better. When you're speaking via...
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Ep. 62. Zoom out! You're more than just another face
If you're spending all day in Zoom meetings, then it's easy to think that speaking by video...
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61. Go big AND go home: Why you need to amp up your online energy for work-at-home audiences
You might have thought up-close video would be more intimate than speaking from the stage. But...
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Ep. 60. The pivot: Mozilla adapts to communicating in the lockdown
This time, we look at how the technology visionaries at Mozilla are making the pivot from...
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Ep. 59. Leadership communication through curation
If sharing really is caring, then the content you share needs to be content you really care about...
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Ep. 58. Going virtual (and staying human)
With so many face-to-face presentations being cancelled, a lot of speakers are looking at going...
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Ep. 57. Making the best of a cancelled speech
Cancelled speaking gigs are a fact of life, but never more than today. And hey: with social...
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Ep. 56. Leadership communications in a crisis (part two)
Getting leadership communications right is never more important than in the middle of a crisis....
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