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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
I just professionally audited an acting class in LA by a colleague who is one of the world’s most famous acting teachers. His clients win Academy Awards. Today he was teaching a class of future stars in the making. So why did he berate so many of them? What made him so frustrated that he threatened to throw one actor out of his classes forever?
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Happy Spring Everyone! Well, I spent most of March in snowy Massachusetts wearing two coats, scraping ice off my windshield and shoveling snow for my folks. Yet every day I could see flowers called snowdrops coming up through patches of ground. LOVE snowdrops. They show me in life anything is possible and that beauty is always around us and in us.
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Friday, February 6, 2009
Want a Date this Valentine’s Day - because Cupid isn’t Stupid. Want to give a winning job interview? Learning the skills for how to build trust in 90 seconds or less can win both. To be successful at work and career or dating people need to know how to manage those first few seconds. more…).
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The Best from Speaking Success International
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
I just professionally audited an acting class in LA by a colleague who is one of the world’s most famous acting teachers. His clients win Academy Awards. Today he was teaching a class of future stars in the making. So why did he berate so many of them? What made him so frustrated that he threatened to throw one actor out of his classes forever?
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Monday, January 19, 2009
I am going to start the year myth busting about speaking in public. This is for experienced and beginner speakers alike. Let me bust some myths for you that you yourself might be having that could be holding you back unnecessarily from speaking in public. Contrary to popular belief, (maybe yours?) more…).
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
I have the great pleasure to be talking with Terri Murphy, Social Media Expert, CEO of Women’s Wisdom Network and top rated Motivational Speaker at NSA about bringing in cash in these times. She gave so much info for us to use! Listen to the interview - she rocks! highly recommend you hear the 10 minute recording.
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Friday, February 6, 2009
Want a Date this Valentine’s Day - because Cupid isn’t Stupid. Want to give a winning job interview? Learning the skills for how to build trust in 90 seconds or less can win both. To be successful at work and career or dating people need to know how to manage those first few seconds. more…).
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Happy Spring Everyone! Well, I spent most of March in snowy Massachusetts wearing two coats, scraping ice off my windshield and shoveling snow for my folks. Yet every day I could see flowers called snowdrops coming up through patches of ground. LOVE snowdrops. They show me in life anything is possible and that beauty is always around us and in us.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Ellen Finkelstein has organized a series of webinar presentations with a great line up of presenters. And not only will you not have any travel and accommodation costs, the webinars themselves are free! To sign up for the webinars go to this webpage: Outstanding Presentations Workshop. Here’s the schedule for the webinars. Speaker. Times.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Enthusiasm is a necessary qualification for effective speaking. When you show enthusiasm it is contagious. The enjoyment and knowledge that is demonstrated for your subject will result in increased listener enjoyment and your speech being more convincing. The feeling of excitement must come through as you deliver. Have an active interest in people.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
My congratulations to Mike Folie (a speechwriting seminar alum) and Tim Becker, who announced that their spec screenplay, THEY SHOOT WEDDINGS, DON’T THEY?, is one of 35 finalists in the Final Draft Big Break Scriptwriting Contest. This is quite an honor … more than 3,500 entries were submitted from around the world.Go
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Monday, May 11, 2009
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). Ben Saunders ). Thou Shalt Tell a Story. Although Dr.
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Monday, September 7, 2009
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 Thinking is for changing concepts and perception," says de Bono. Seven principles for changing your perception Kanso (??) Fukinsei (???) Shizen (??)
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Monday, August 10, 2009
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? believe there is. 1) Embrace constraints.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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. would love to see more tools available which work within the most common slideware – PowerPoint and Keynote.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
At last, we have some scientifically rigorous evidence to show that slides full of bullet-points don’t work. The research is the work of Chris Atherton , a cognitive psychologist. Chris recently delivered a presentation at the Technical Communication UK Conference and has put up her slides on slideshare. The research. Sparse slides.
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