Communication Skills

There is one thing I find in common with many of my media and presentation training clients: they...

Many business executives have a huge disconnect in their communication styles. When they are spea...

One sure sign of a nervous speaker is frozen hands “TJ, I don’t know what to do with my han...

Your voice is your most precious speaking instrument. You must preserve and protect it at every o...

When you get up to speak before a live audience, or if you are already standing and moving toward...

Nothing is more intellectually shallow than the Power of Positive Thinking, right? What could be ...

Another great way of getting your message quoted is for you to quote someone or something that is...

As I have mentioned and written before, the hardest thing for a speaker to do well is to read a s...

The reality is that you don’t have to be a natural born comic or even the class clown to develop ...

When you are being interviewed by a reporter, it is always a good idea to ask, “Who else ar...

Let’s face it, we’ve all started to nod off while listening to a speaker, no matter how interesti...

It always pays to know your audience before you get up to speak. This applies not only to the sub...

So many business speakers have a difficult time concluding their presentations in a powerful way....

What do you do if you have an incredibly large amount of data that you must present to an audienc...

A great speaker has certain unstated goals for himself or herself while giving every presentation...

Bosses often tell their employees to speak “faster, faster, and faster” when the empl...

Many of my corporate executive presentation training clients come to me and express concerns abou...

A lot of people like to sit around and complain about boring PowerPoint presentations. “But...

Recently, the CEO-designate of JP Morgan Chase, James Dixon, was asked his opinion about a merger...

There is one big difference between an informative presentation and a sales presentation. In an i...