I was reading a story about when Oprah was a small child. She was watching her grandmother boil clothes ‘in a big cast-iron pot in the yard.” Then, her grandmother would pull the steaming clothes out of the pot and hang them on the clothes line to dry. Oprah remembers...
‘Ditch the Elevator Pitch’. In her May, 2012 article in Forbes, Jacquelyn Smith staff writer says, “… ditch the pitch… It basically describes what sales people used to do – throw information at prospects hoping to sell a service or product before the buyer could hang...
Distractions! They are everywhere, and can drive us on the road to exasperation, especially when we are sitting in the audience and find that we seriously have to work at tuning both ears to what the speaker is saying. All too often, something quite unrelated comes in...
After filling out the application form, then holding my breath through the lengthy interview, I received the call. I had been chosen as one of the two impact speakers for the United Way Lower Mainland fund raising campaign. What could be better than this? Going into...
Speaking notes are an important tool when making a speech or presentation; they organize the flow of the topic, keep you on track and serve as cheat sheets for salient points such as statistics. But what to do with those cumbersome notes? Whether you are a newly...
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