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I've experienced two odd conference room configurations in the last month, and I thought I would share them with you. When I'm booked for a training, I send the organizer a diagram with my preferred room setup. But of course, you can't always get what you want, and I've ended up in some pretty weird training rooms. But many rooms not only have no option for a portable screen, they have no space for one, either. MORE
Sometime you might be speaking in a room that is too big for the audience. The empty space drains away the energy that you are trying to create in the room. It's always easier to speak to a packed room versus a half empty room. So how to you make a room look and feel fuller? That has at least two negative effects on your audience. MORE
The article suggests that rooms with low ceilings might foster detailed thinking, whereas rooms with high ceilings may allow people to create loftier, more abstract ideas. What might be interesting is to see the affect that rooms with these particular features affects groups in break-out sessions. If you want your groups to have free-flowing ideas then rooms with higher ceilings may be of benefit. MORE
However, as long as investors were content with the price of the stock they weren't the loudest voices in the room. Investor grumbling about corporate governance at Facebook is nothing new. In the past there has been a push for the chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg to give up his role as chairman of the board. Having both titles gave him almost absolute power at the social network. He is the decider. MORE
To the extent that my pacing has a purpose, it is so I can be a physical presence in various parts of the room at different times during the class, make eye contact with more students, listen to their questions better, try to see what they are seeing when I project something/write something at the front of a large classroom, or just because I get kind of hyped up when I teach and I feel like moving. From the Green Room: A speaker can ramble in words and in movement - both are problematic. MORE
I’m darn good at selling at the back of the room. Just put a box in the back of the room at your table and mention that you’ll be at the table if anyone wants to take the book home with them it will be 20 bucks (or some round number). Tags: Books Guest Posts Speaking sales back of room sales Guest post by Tom Antion. In fact, just this month I did three speaking engagements at multi speaker events and I outsold all the other speakers put together. MORE
Before we take our client to that fancy restaurant in New York we will know what kind of rest room we will both encounter. On TECH CRUNCH , Natasha Lomas reports that Yelp has integrated "hygiene" information into restaurant reviews for some major metro areas such as New York. Soon enough Glassdoor, which has reviews on workplaces, might incorporate similar reviews for the restroom facilities in the workplace. MORE
If you want to make a spectacular impression on a low budget, room blackouts are a great technique. I would either project a picture of JFK, or MLK if I had the capability, or I would totally darken the room (except for the red exit signs, or whatever lights are mandatory for emergencies). I use them in two ways. If I want the audience to concentrate on a recorded audio tape and 2. when I want an awesome closing. MORE
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Getting in the Green Room - The Zen of Surfing and Speaking I originally decided to call my company Green Room Speakers because of its theater definition: From Wikipedia: A green room is a room in a theater , studio , or other public venue for the accommodation of performers or speakers when not required on the stage. In other words, the green room is a place for performers to prepare before they get on stage. MORE
In what is a very obvious example of "show, dont tell," Jake expresses his love for the ukulele not by talking about it, but by playing a stirring rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody:" From the Green Room: Most of us dont something as clear as a musical instrument to show, rather than describe a message. Tuesday, February 1, 2011 Lessons from a Ukulele According to musician Jake Shimabukuro from his bio on this weeks Ted.com: ".The MORE
TMBG: I'd say the main difference for us as artists is that the kids are a little bit of a tougher room. For some of them, you're just what's going on in the room, and they're not all that worried about it being a successful show. Download audio here. We enjoyed a lively show by They Might Be Giants yesterday afternoon. MORE
The article suggests that rooms with low ceilings might foster detailed thinking, whereas rooms with high ceilings may allow people to create loftier, more abstract ideas. What might be interesting is to see the affect that rooms with these particular features affects groups in break-out sessions. If you want your groups to have free-flowing ideas then rooms with higher ceilings may be of benefit. MORE
Last weekend at the Oscars, Chris Rock took dead aim at the elephant in the room by addressing the #OscarsSoWhite controversy. The post 4 Speaking Experts Share Advice on How to Address the Elephant in the Room appeared first on Jane Atkinson. Most Recent Post Presentation Skills Speaking Profession elephant in the room speaker business speaker dilemma speaking skills MORE
The angst for those whose performance review indicated they are too shut-down or too apt to suck up all the oxygen in the room is the small talk. Or, Or, what was called in the dress-for-success days "working the room." This Rule of Working the Room applies at all levels. The gregarious ethos of Americana propels us to take over the room. No surprise, the office holiday party is back. The economy is better. MORE
The Green Room Speakers blog has moved to: greenroomspeakers.com/blog Thank you for visiting! Sarah MORE
From the Green Room: Want to have stage presence? Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Eat, Pray, Love, Present My favorite scene in Elizabeth Gilberts memoir Eat, Pray, Love takes place in India, where Gilbert manages to meditate while surrounded by mosquitoes. In an interview on NPRs All Things Considered , Gilbert reflects on the experience: So that evening I found a quiet bench in a garden and decided to just sit for an hour, Vipassana style. MORE
One of the most heavily endowed institutions of higher education in the world - Harvard - has not made up its mind whether to refund students' room and board for this spring semester. MORE
One of the reasons why I went early, was so I could “walk the room” beforehand. Whenever I have an important speech or presentation, I always visit the room beforehand and walk around. You can make sure that the room is set up properly (tables, chairs, supplies, etc.). MORE
Tonight at 10 PM New York time, Showtime will broadcast the television interpretation of Gabriel Sherman's "The Loudest Voice in the Room." The objective, it could be concluded, was to distract attention from Sherman's new release in 2014 "The Loudest Voice in the Room." And, of course, it was the best kind of publicity for "The Loudest Voice in the Room." MORE
I've found that by giving everyone in the room the same level of energy - and not taking it personally when someone doesn't appear to be paying attention - I still manage to reach those who seem unreachable. Rhett Laubach posted a nice overview of how to read your audience members and how best to connect with them, based on their motivations for being there. Hostage Harriet" is particularly challenging; here's an excerpt: "I am here because I was forced to be here. I didn't have a choice. MORE
Saturday, June 27, 2009 Find Your Green Room Trigger In this weeks New Yorker, Alex Ross writes about Marlboro Music, an elite summer music program at Marlboro college in Vermon t "where artists could forget about commerce and escape into a purely musical realm." I call this the Green Room Trigger. From the Green Room: Find your Green Room Trigger - a word, mantra or motion that takes you back to a moment in your life where you were fully present. MORE
TMBG: I'd say the main difference for us as artists is that the kids are a little bit of a tougher room. For some of them, you're just what's going on in the room, and they're not all that worried about it being a successful show. Download audio here. We enjoyed a lively show by They Might Be Giants yesterday afternoon. MORE
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 Find Your Green Room Trigger How do Olympic athletes train their minds for the challenges of such intense competition? At Green Room Speakers, I call this finding your Green Room Trigger. From the Green Room: Speaking anxiety often stems from negative triggers, such as thinking about a past speaking or performance experience that didnt go so well. MORE
That leaves the real estate companies and the Mom & Pop shops which lease student apartments and rooms in a pickle. Summer courses might be cancelled for many institutions of higher learning. And so might the fall ones. MORE
Public opinion isn't the only voice in the room. For Uber, London is a major market. There, it has 40,000 registered drivers and 3 million consumers. That could be history. Regulator of the taxi industry in London-Transport for London-made the decision not to renew Uber's license at the end of the month. Uber can appeal. London's complaints are the usual ones against Uber. They range from inadequate vetting of drivers to the Greyball software which blocks regulators. MORE
It's a wrap this Sunday, with the 7th and last episode of Showtime's "The Loudest Voice in the Room." " Gretchen Carlson's lawsuit becomes public. Roger Ailes begins to disintegrate. The brass debates if it will be necessary to push Roger out in order to save Fox News. As we already know, that was the decision they made. MORE
When we give a speech or presentation, we usually don’t have any control over the room where we speak. We might be able to move chairs and tables or adjust the lighting, but in general, we have to deal with … Continue reading → The post 3 tips to deal with the room where you speak appeared first on Manner of Speaking. Preparation Collex Switzerland dealing with the room Presentation public speaking MORE
The end doesn't just happen. In most situations, there is plenty leading up to a career crash, the arrest, loss of brand equity, and/or a suicide. The 5th episode of Showtime's "The Loudest Voice in the Room" puts out there clear signs that Roger Ailes' power was going to be in play. The year is 2012. In July 2016 , Ailes resigned from the conservative news empire he had created. MORE
However, throughout the process, the elephant in the room was and is the client conviction that the content was breakthrough. It's NDA time. Even contract workers like myself are being hit with pages and pages of Non-Disclosure Agreements - that is, NDAs. MORE
The waiting room was full of other sad stories. Today I did a good deed. I offered to accompany a neighbor who decided it was time that her two aged cats passed over. One cat Pumpkin obviously had cancer. The other cat Lucy had something too. Both were about 21. With Pumpkin and Lucy meowing in the back seat, I drove the 12 minutes from New Haven, Connecticut to the vet hospital in West Haven. MORE
And that's the meme of new film "The Room," which has been derived from a novel. The transition is complete when he asks to return to the room. Finally, he says "Bye, room." Born in "captivity," all five-year-old Jack knows is life with Ma (his mother) in a small, primitive living space. Supplies are so sparse that Ma still nurses him in order that he gets enough nourishment. MORE
The marvelous social media sommelier Gary Vaynerchuk gives us an excellent 3 minute video outlining the necessity of "working the room" versus "giving a presentation." In the age of social media, with blogs and sites like Twitter, FaceBook, YouTube -- merely giving a presentation is less effective than "working the room". He's working the room. MORE
The article suggests that rooms with low ceilings might foster detailed thinking, whereas rooms with high ceilings may allow people to create loftier, more abstract ideas. What might be interesting is to see the affect that rooms with these particular features affects groups in break-out sessions. If you want your groups to have free-flowing ideas then rooms with higher ceilings may be of benefit. MORE
From the Green Room: Let your message and your content dictate your speaking style. Friday, March 11, 2011 Speaking Advice from SNL In this weeks New Yorker, Tina Fey recounts nine "Lessons from Late Night" - what she learned from working with Lorne Michaels. Lesson #7 is "Never cut to a closed door." Tina writes: Lorne said this once in exasperation.the director had cut to a door a moment too soon, before the actor entered, and in that moment Lorne felt we had "lost the audience".Lorne MORE
I've experienced two odd conference room configurations in the last month, and I thought I would share them with you. When I'm booked for a training, I send the organizer a diagram with my preferred room setup. But of course, you can't always get what you want, and I've ended up in some pretty weird training rooms. But many rooms not only have no option for a portable screen, they have no space for one, either. MORE
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From the Green Room: Know your core message. Leave room for a little improv! Watch this hilarious Ted talk from this week - Charlie Shodd: The Shared Experience of Absurdity: The absurd scenes created here were funny only because of the people involved who had no idea what was going on. Speakers tend to practice as a way to avoid the unexpected. But while preparation is absolutely essential, it is sometimes those unexpected moments in a presentation that make the most impact. MORE
Such details of the Ailes-Murdoch conflict came out in Episode 3 of "The Loudest Voice in the Room." It's not unusual to resent one's boss. But Roger Ailes' resentment of his - Rupert Murdoch - led him to dig up dirt on the boss' then wife - Wendi Deng Murdoch. The resulting piece was going to be published in the digital tabloid Gawker. But that never happened. MORE
The first time I went in to the men’s room, I stopped and looked at the mirror above the sink. It is similar to what happens on the mirror in the Applebees men’s room. The ad on the mirror disappears when you want to focus on your appearance before you leave the men’s room. Don’t worry, this is a G-rated blog post. In the last two weeks I’ve had lunch twice at our local Applebees with business colleagues. MORE
And that comes through in the 4th episode of the Showtime series "The Loudest Voice in the Room." Vampire. That might be the best way to describe Roger Ailes. " Essentially The Ailes Move seems to have been to take human beings and suck out their sense of self. Those range from his mistress Laurie Luhn to editor in chief of his Hudson Valley newspaper Joe Lindsley. MORE
I caught this gem in a section on making room for--rather than running away from--your fear. There's plenty of room in this vehicle for all of us, so make yourself at home. Author Elizabeth Gilbert's latest book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear , is about bringing your creativity forward, and at first glance, it may not seem like a book for public speakers. But that would require overlooking the words "beyond fear" in the title. MORE
But what we're not sharing are sit down meals in the dining room. The rich, reports The Wall Street Journal, have even reconfigured the rooms of their mansions. Gone is the dining room, now an anchronism in a digital, fitness era. Baby Boomers will recall how much of the plots of "Father Knows Best" took place around the dining room table. More often the homefront scenes were in the children's rooms where their laptops were. MORE
Given the latest play-out of Roger's ability to land on his feet, it's useful to re-read or read for the first time the book "The Loudest Voice In The Room." This week was one focused on the politics of leadership at Fox News. In the end, Roger Ailes delivered a resounding smackdown, heard around the world. For instance, one of his new bosses, James Murdoch, praised him from the Cannes conference. As usual, Roger The Ever Resilient got what he wanted. MORE
Room Related Topics Manner of Speaking
APRIL 25, 2021
One of the reasons why I went early, was so I could “walk the room” beforehand. Whenever I have an important speech or presentation, I always visit the room beforehand and walk around. You can make sure that the room is set up properly (tables, chairs, supplies, etc.).
Manner of Speaking
MAY 27, 2019
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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 29, 2019
However, throughout the process, the elephant in the room was and is the client conviction that the content was breakthrough. It's NDA time. Even contract workers like myself are being hit with pages and pages of Non-Disclosure Agreements - that is, NDAs.
Speak Schmeak
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
TMBG: I'd say the main difference for us as artists is that the kids are a little bit of a tougher room. For some of them, you're just what's going on in the room, and they're not all that worried about it being a successful show. Download audio here. We enjoyed a lively show by They Might Be Giants yesterday afternoon.
Speak Schmeak
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
TMBG: I'd say the main difference for us as artists is that the kids are a little bit of a tougher room. For some of them, you're just what's going on in the room, and they're not all that worried about it being a successful show. Download audio here. We enjoyed a lively show by They Might Be Giants yesterday afternoon.
Speak Schmeak
JULY 1, 2010
I've experienced two odd conference room configurations in the last month, and I thought I would share them with you. When I'm booked for a training, I send the organizer a diagram with my preferred room setup. But of course, you can't always get what you want, and I've ended up in some pretty weird training rooms. But many rooms not only have no option for a portable screen, they have no space for one, either.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 23, 2020
That leaves the real estate companies and the Mom & Pop shops which lease student apartments and rooms in a pickle. Summer courses might be cancelled for many institutions of higher learning. And so might the fall ones.
Green Room Speakers
NOVEMBER 12, 2011
From the Green Room: Know your core message. Leave room for a little improv! Watch this hilarious Ted talk from this week - Charlie Shodd: The Shared Experience of Absurdity: The absurd scenes created here were funny only because of the people involved who had no idea what was going on. Speakers tend to practice as a way to avoid the unexpected. But while preparation is absolutely essential, it is sometimes those unexpected moments in a presentation that make the most impact.
Pro Humorist
JUNE 3, 2009
The article suggests that rooms with low ceilings might foster detailed thinking, whereas rooms with high ceilings may allow people to create loftier, more abstract ideas. What might be interesting is to see the affect that rooms with these particular features affects groups in break-out sessions. If you want your groups to have free-flowing ideas then rooms with higher ceilings may be of benefit.
Pro Humorist
JUNE 3, 2009
The article suggests that rooms with low ceilings might foster detailed thinking, whereas rooms with high ceilings may allow people to create loftier, more abstract ideas. What might be interesting is to see the affect that rooms with these particular features affects groups in break-out sessions. If you want your groups to have free-flowing ideas then rooms with higher ceilings may be of benefit.
Pro Humorist
JUNE 3, 2009
The article suggests that rooms with low ceilings might foster detailed thinking, whereas rooms with high ceilings may allow people to create loftier, more abstract ideas. What might be interesting is to see the affect that rooms with these particular features affects groups in break-out sessions. If you want your groups to have free-flowing ideas then rooms with higher ceilings may be of benefit.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JUNE 30, 2019
Tonight at 10 PM New York time, Showtime will broadcast the television interpretation of Gabriel Sherman's "The Loudest Voice in the Room." The objective, it could be concluded, was to distract attention from Sherman's new release in 2014 "The Loudest Voice in the Room." And, of course, it was the best kind of publicity for "The Loudest Voice in the Room."
Speak Schmeak
DECEMBER 7, 2007
I've found that by giving everyone in the room the same level of energy - and not taking it personally when someone doesn't appear to be paying attention - I still manage to reach those who seem unreachable. Rhett Laubach posted a nice overview of how to read your audience members and how best to connect with them, based on their motivations for being there. Hostage Harriet" is particularly challenging; here's an excerpt: "I am here because I was forced to be here. I didn't have a choice.
Speak Schmeak
JULY 1, 2010
I've experienced two odd conference room configurations in the last month, and I thought I would share them with you. When I'm booked for a training, I send the organizer a diagram with my preferred room setup. But of course, you can't always get what you want, and I've ended up in some pretty weird training rooms. But many rooms not only have no option for a portable screen, they have no space for one, either.
Craig Strachan - Keep Talking!
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
I’m darn good at selling at the back of the room. Just put a box in the back of the room at your table and mention that you’ll be at the table if anyone wants to take the book home with them it will be 20 bucks (or some round number). Tags: Books Guest Posts Speaking sales back of room sales Guest post by Tom Antion. In fact, just this month I did three speaking engagements at multi speaker events and I outsold all the other speakers put together.
TJ Walker Interactive
OCTOBER 13, 2012
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Speaker Launcher
MARCH 10, 2016
Last weekend at the Oscars, Chris Rock took dead aim at the elephant in the room by addressing the #OscarsSoWhite controversy. The post 4 Speaking Experts Share Advice on How to Address the Elephant in the Room appeared first on Jane Atkinson. Most Recent Post Presentation Skills Speaking Profession elephant in the room speaker business speaker dilemma speaking skills
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 17, 2013
Before we take our client to that fancy restaurant in New York we will know what kind of rest room we will both encounter. On TECH CRUNCH , Natasha Lomas reports that Yelp has integrated "hygiene" information into restaurant reviews for some major metro areas such as New York. Soon enough Glassdoor, which has reviews on workplaces, might incorporate similar reviews for the restroom facilities in the workplace.
Great Public Speaking
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
If you want to make a spectacular impression on a low budget, room blackouts are a great technique. I would either project a picture of JFK, or MLK if I had the capability, or I would totally darken the room (except for the red exit signs, or whatever lights are mandatory for emergencies). I use them in two ways. If I want the audience to concentrate on a recorded audio tape and 2. when I want an awesome closing.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
Public opinion isn't the only voice in the room. For Uber, London is a major market. There, it has 40,000 registered drivers and 3 million consumers. That could be history. Regulator of the taxi industry in London-Transport for London-made the decision not to renew Uber's license at the end of the month. Uber can appeal. London's complaints are the usual ones against Uber. They range from inadequate vetting of drivers to the Greyball software which blocks regulators.
Green Room Speakers
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
The Green Room Speakers blog has moved to: greenroomspeakers.com/blog Thank you for visiting! Sarah
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JUNE 27, 2015
Given the latest play-out of Roger's ability to land on his feet, it's useful to re-read or read for the first time the book "The Loudest Voice In The Room." This week was one focused on the politics of leadership at Fox News. In the end, Roger Ailes delivered a resounding smackdown, heard around the world. For instance, one of his new bosses, James Murdoch, praised him from the Cannes conference. As usual, Roger The Ever Resilient got what he wanted.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 21, 2019
And that comes through in the 4th episode of the Showtime series "The Loudest Voice in the Room." Vampire. That might be the best way to describe Roger Ailes. " Essentially The Ailes Move seems to have been to take human beings and suck out their sense of self. Those range from his mistress Laurie Luhn to editor in chief of his Hudson Valley newspaper Joe Lindsley.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 6, 2015
The angst for those whose performance review indicated they are too shut-down or too apt to suck up all the oxygen in the room is the small talk. Or, Or, what was called in the dress-for-success days "working the room." This Rule of Working the Room applies at all levels. The gregarious ethos of Americana propels us to take over the room. No surprise, the office holiday party is back. The economy is better.
Green Room Speakers
DECEMBER 12, 2010
To the extent that my pacing has a purpose, it is so I can be a physical presence in various parts of the room at different times during the class, make eye contact with more students, listen to their questions better, try to see what they are seeing when I project something/write something at the front of a large classroom, or just because I get kind of hyped up when I teach and I feel like moving. From the Green Room: A speaker can ramble in words and in movement - both are problematic.
Executive Speech Coach
AUGUST 28, 2012
Sometime you might be speaking in a room that is too big for the audience. The empty space drains away the energy that you are trying to create in the room. It's always easier to speak to a packed room versus a half empty room. So how to you make a room look and feel fuller? That has at least two negative effects on your audience.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 15, 2019
Such details of the Ailes-Murdoch conflict came out in Episode 3 of "The Loudest Voice in the Room." It's not unusual to resent one's boss. But Roger Ailes' resentment of his - Rupert Murdoch - led him to dig up dirt on the boss' then wife - Wendi Deng Murdoch. The resulting piece was going to be published in the digital tabloid Gawker. But that never happened.
Green Room Speakers
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Getting in the Green Room - The Zen of Surfing and Speaking I originally decided to call my company Green Room Speakers because of its theater definition: From Wikipedia: A green room is a room in a theater , studio , or other public venue for the accommodation of performers or speakers when not required on the stage. In other words, the green room is a place for performers to prepare before they get on stage.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 24, 2015
And that's the meme of new film "The Room," which has been derived from a novel. The transition is complete when he asks to return to the room. Finally, he says "Bye, room." Born in "captivity," all five-year-old Jack knows is life with Ma (his mother) in a small, primitive living space. Supplies are so sparse that Ma still nurses him in order that he gets enough nourishment.
Green Room Speakers
FEBRUARY 16, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 Find Your Green Room Trigger How do Olympic athletes train their minds for the challenges of such intense competition? At Green Room Speakers, I call this finding your Green Room Trigger. From the Green Room: Speaking anxiety often stems from negative triggers, such as thinking about a past speaking or performance experience that didnt go so well.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 28, 2019
The end doesn't just happen. In most situations, there is plenty leading up to a career crash, the arrest, loss of brand equity, and/or a suicide. The 5th episode of Showtime's "The Loudest Voice in the Room" puts out there clear signs that Roger Ailes' power was going to be in play. The year is 2012. In July 2016 , Ailes resigned from the conservative news empire he had created.
Green Room Speakers
AUGUST 24, 2010
From the Green Room: Want to have stage presence? Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Eat, Pray, Love, Present My favorite scene in Elizabeth Gilberts memoir Eat, Pray, Love takes place in India, where Gilbert manages to meditate while surrounded by mosquitoes. In an interview on NPRs All Things Considered , Gilbert reflects on the experience: So that evening I found a quiet bench in a garden and decided to just sit for an hour, Vipassana style.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 23, 2014
But what we're not sharing are sit down meals in the dining room. The rich, reports The Wall Street Journal, have even reconfigured the rooms of their mansions. Gone is the dining room, now an anchronism in a digital, fitness era. Baby Boomers will recall how much of the plots of "Father Knows Best" took place around the dining room table. More often the homefront scenes were in the children's rooms where their laptops were.
Green Room Speakers
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
In what is a very obvious example of "show, dont tell," Jake expresses his love for the ukulele not by talking about it, but by playing a stirring rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody:" From the Green Room: Most of us dont something as clear as a musical instrument to show, rather than describe a message. Tuesday, February 1, 2011 Lessons from a Ukulele According to musician Jake Shimabukuro from his bio on this weeks Ted.com: ".The
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 28, 2018
However, as long as investors were content with the price of the stock they weren't the loudest voices in the room. Investor grumbling about corporate governance at Facebook is nothing new. In the past there has been a push for the chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg to give up his role as chairman of the board. Having both titles gave him almost absolute power at the social network. He is the decider.
Green Room Speakers
JUNE 27, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009 Find Your Green Room Trigger In this weeks New Yorker, Alex Ross writes about Marlboro Music, an elite summer music program at Marlboro college in Vermon t "where artists could forget about commerce and escape into a purely musical realm." I call this the Green Room Trigger. From the Green Room: Find your Green Room Trigger - a word, mantra or motion that takes you back to a moment in your life where you were fully present.
More than PowerPoint...
FEBRUARY 6, 2009
The marvelous social media sommelier Gary Vaynerchuk gives us an excellent 3 minute video outlining the necessity of "working the room" versus "giving a presentation." In the age of social media, with blogs and sites like Twitter, FaceBook, YouTube -- merely giving a presentation is less effective than "working the room". He's working the room.
Green Room Speakers
MARCH 11, 2011
From the Green Room: Let your message and your content dictate your speaking style. Friday, March 11, 2011 Speaking Advice from SNL In this weeks New Yorker, Tina Fey recounts nine "Lessons from Late Night" - what she learned from working with Lorne Michaels. Lesson #7 is "Never cut to a closed door." Tina writes: Lorne said this once in exasperation.the director had cut to a door a moment too soon, before the actor entered, and in that moment Lorne felt we had "lost the audience".Lorne
The Eloquent Woman
JANUARY 28, 2016
I caught this gem in a section on making room for--rather than running away from--your fear. There's plenty of room in this vehicle for all of us, so make yourself at home. Author Elizabeth Gilbert's latest book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear , is about bringing your creativity forward, and at first glance, it may not seem like a book for public speakers. But that would require overlooking the words "beyond fear" in the title.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
AUGUST 9, 2019
It's a wrap this Sunday, with the 7th and last episode of Showtime's "The Loudest Voice in the Room." " Gretchen Carlson's lawsuit becomes public. Roger Ailes begins to disintegrate. The brass debates if it will be necessary to push Roger out in order to save Fox News. As we already know, that was the decision they made.
Dave Paradi's PowerPoint Blog
MARCH 22, 2011
The first time I went in to the men’s room, I stopped and looked at the mirror above the sink. It is similar to what happens on the mirror in the Applebees men’s room. The ad on the mirror disappears when you want to focus on your appearance before you leave the men’s room. Don’t worry, this is a G-rated blog post. In the last two weeks I’ve had lunch twice at our local Applebees with business colleagues.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
OCTOBER 5, 2011
The waiting room was full of other sad stories. Today I did a good deed. I offered to accompany a neighbor who decided it was time that her two aged cats passed over. One cat Pumpkin obviously had cancer. The other cat Lucy had something too. Both were about 21. With Pumpkin and Lucy meowing in the back seat, I drove the 12 minutes from New Haven, Connecticut to the vet hospital in West Haven.
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