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PUBLIC SPEAKING ADVICE AND COMMENTARY APRIL 24, 2012 So What's the Right Way to Use PowerPoint? Readers of this blog will know that I often take on PowerPoint (and its cousins) as detrimental to speech giving. It’s probably time for a corrective blog, especially after my “Imagine there’s no PowerPoint” spoof of last week. Let’s be clear. Slides, done right, can greatly strengthen a presentation. | SPEAK SCHMEAK APRIL 24, 2012  Don't revere your audience I recently worked with a client who speaks on a very sensitive topic. She said she felt she should be more reverent. particularly like Courtney A. | MAX ATKINSON APRIL 24, 2012 The language 'surfacing' from James Murdoch at today's Leveson Inquiry At about 1.00 today, I was asked by a leading Scottish newspaper to write a 400 word piece on James Murdoch's performance at today's Leveson Inquiry - deadline 6.00 Tight though this was compared with the usual deadlines I work to, I agreed. Then, at about 4.30 But I can never resist the chance to collect examples of how and how not to do it. | SPEAK SCHMEAK APRIL 24, 2012  Don't revere your audience I recently worked with a client who speaks on a very sensitive topic. She said she felt she should be more reverent. particularly like Courtney A. | | | | | | | |
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GREEN ROOM SPEAKERS | TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012  Rahm Emanuel: Raising Status through Stillness
Watch last night's CNN interview with Rahm Emanuel: Notice the way Rahm Emanuel sits straight up in his chair, barely moving. Contrast that with Morgan, who moves more and leans forward, toward Emanuel. Emanuel's straight and still posture raises his status - giving him an even greater sense of authority. From the Green Room: Stillness = status. MORE >> -
 Our Mothers, Not Ourselves: But we probably don't get that, ever
The mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex I have experienced. And, although my mother died relatively young in the mid 1980s, I still wrestle almost daily with whether she was a destructive or strengthening force in my life. Generational Divide Personal Musings Values MORE >> - Zen of Less: Not boasting about being so busy, including all-nighters
The secret to hitting the target, be it in pitching for a new account or putting together an article, might simply be to do less. Back in 2009, Buddhist coach Marc Lesser explained that fundamental in his book "Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less." BUSINESS INSIDER features the side effects of the all-nighter. MORE >>
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