8 Tips for Controlling Stage Fright
Speech anxiety should never go away. However, you do want to keep it under control, so you’ll look and feel like the confident, professional, expert that you are.
5 Bits of Advice to Avoid If You Want to Overcome Public Speaking Anxiety
Some people say that public speaking is one of the top things people fear. In fact, these same people say that most of us would rather get root canal or be audited by the IRS than to have to give a speech. I don’t know if I agree people would rather face an IRS audit, […]
20 Visual Presentation Guidelines I Try to Follow
Many people say PowerPoint is dead, killed off by the new generation of online presentation tools such as Prezi. However, in most corporate, education, and other environments PowerPoint is still the tool of choice. I don’t think PowerPoint is going away anytime soon and having attended several presentations over the past few months that fell under […]
Stop Beating a Dead Horse: 5 Reasons You Should Stop Using Cliches (and Idioms)
At the end of the day, the bottom line with communication is to create a win-win situation between you and your audience. In a nutshell, you want to communicate your message clearly. Okay, how many clichés have you counted so far? According to Dictionary.com, a cliché is, “A trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, […]