My last post about delivering a speech or presentation via an interpreter has generated a lot of discussion. One of the tips that I mentioned in that post was the importance of using humour carefully when addressing an audience of non-native speakers.  The mission was very high level and a matter of importance for the Iranian Government. MORE >>

In any presentation where you are selling ideas, products or services, your audience will want to know that you can actually solve their problem. Just stating that you can solve the problem is not enough, you have to provide proof. call these case studies or success stories. It is not to brag about the work you have done. MORE >>

Watch any sport on television, and you'll see the athletes segue from their course or court right over to the mic for the postgame interview. Most athletes, anyway. Sophie Gustafson is a world-class professional golfer with five LPGA wins and 21 international titles to her name, and a five-time member of Europe's Solheim Cup team. MORE >>

If you've been reading my blog for a while, you may have seen a post I wrote in 2008 about Wayne Pacelle, the President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States. He visited The Ellen Show to talk about Proposition 2, the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act. We can be cruel or we can be kind. And I say we need to be kind." MORE >>

Imagine there's no PowerPoint It's easy if you try No screens before us No piles of printed slides Imagine all the people focusing on you. Imagine no bullets I wonder if you could No dissolves or fly-ins Just stories, from the heart, and good Imagine all the people focusing on you. with apologies to John Lennon). Visual Aids MORE >>