For those that have attended my professional networking seminars you’ve already heard many of my ideas on how to start a conversation and for those that haven’t yet attended I created the list below. In In addition, you can listen to an the very first episode of my new show that I create for Macmillan. The

After my seminars people come up to ask questions they don’t want to ask publicly.  Without a doubt the most common “private” question I get is about accents.  People want to know how they can reduce their accents. For For me, it’s not about reducing an accent, it’s about acquiring accent options. 

I’ve been very busy this summer!  You can’t tell by the postings because there haven’t been any!! Why?  Because I’ve spent a good portion of my time writing THE MOST comprehensive learning package on interviewing skills.  I’m very excited about this. The

I’ve been waiting for someone to come out with something like this.  An official “Twitter policy”.  Well, it’s not exactly that, but it is a policy about disseminating information to “anonymous third parties”. I I

Recently, I received an email from one of my online public speaking workshop participants. She She wrote, “I am interviewing for a position and I am deeply pregnant. Should I somehow mention this just before my job talk? From one point of view, it sounds unprofessional.

TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to speak at TED are given 18-minute slots maximum (some are for even less time such as 3- and 6-minute slots). Some who present at TED are not used to speaking on a large stage, or are at least not used to speaking on their topic with strict time restraints.

Exposing ourselves to traditional Japanese aesthetic ideas — notions that may seem quite foreign to most of us — is a good exercise in lateral thinking, a term coined by Edward de Bono in 1967. "Lateral Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perception," says de Bono. Beginning to think about design by exploring the tenets of the Zen aesthetic may not be an example of Lateral Thinking

Most people do not really think about design and designers, let alone think of themselves as designers. But what, if anything, can regular people — teachers, students, business people of all types — learn from designers and from thinking like a designer? And what of more specialized professions?

Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the presenter to manage the backchannel. I

People often ask if technical or science-related presentations can be as compelling as presentations covering other less technical topics. Now, not every presentation has earth-shattering, Nobel-Prize winning significance, but I assume if you are talking about your research or current issues in your field, etc. that your words have a benefit for someone else.