Presentations: Candidates Must Focus Their Messages: Politics Local and regional political candidates must speak with rifle-shot clarity. Unlike those running for top offices like US Senate, they usually get little attention from the public and press. So, every word counts. Sweeping generalities don’t. My recommendations: Media Interviews With media interviews rare, you must grab the few opportunities […]

Presentations: As a Leader, Are You A Motivational Speaker?: Speaking I saw an uninspiring speech. “So what,” you say. “Flat speeches are commonplace.” Yes, but this was delivered by a chief executive complaining that her institution lacked public support.   Think about it. An uninspiring speaker complaining that others were uninspired about her organization! The speech failed on several […]

Presentations: Acting Insights Into More Powerful Presentations: Speaking The businessman – a former client – stepped up to the podium and nailed his speech to the civic group. The audience liked him. Our previous work together was so brief (about one hour) and so long ago (3 years), this success was clearly his doing. And yet he […]

Presentations: 8 Things Your Speech Must Contain: All you hard-core business types who believe that communication is a “soft skill” that only matters when everything else is fine, consider this from Vanity Fair magazine: “During his first earnings call with analysts, (Google CEO Larry) Page read, with a discernible lack of enthusiasm, a 394-word statement, then took off […]

Presentations: 10 Steps To Winning Executive Presentations: Speaking Things were not going well on a recent morning of presentations to the executive committee of a large multi-national corporation. “That was a waste of our time,” the president said to the vice president after the first two presentations. Up stepped the third group and suddenly the mood began […]