Don't blow it with your audience
You have to handle the microphone carefully. Last week I attended the graduation ceremony for the class of a business school where I teach. The graduates had taken their seats, the audience was settled in, the three-piece orchestra had just finished the last of its pieces. Everything was set. The Master of Ceremonies approached the […]
Product Review: Logitech Spotlight Remote
Slides are a staple of most presentations. And if you use slides, you should use a good remote to go through them. I recommend the Logitech Spotlight. I have been using the Spotlight for the past couple of months and am now able to share my opinion with you. There’s a lot to like and […]
New Business Theme Added to Rhetoric – The Public Speaking Game™
The new Business theme has been added to the app version of Rhetoric – The Public Speaking Game™. Players can now choose to play one of three different themes (Classic, Family and Business) in one of six different languages (English, Spanish, French, Russian, German and Catalan). If you are not familiar with Rhetoric – The […]
It was one of those days
Theresa May had a bad day on stage. “Calamatous!” — “A nightmare!” — “Wretched freakish luck, and agony to behold.” These were just some of the reviews in the press of the British Prime Minister’s 4 October 2017 speech in Manchester. This speech was an important one. With May’s popularity dipping, with the recent setback of the […]
Don't be like Twitter
I am a long-time user of Twitter. The microblogging platform has allowed me to connect with people around the world, learn new things and share my ideas. Although Twitter has struggled in recent years to grow, especially when compared to sites like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, it nevertheless maintains a solid base of users. Twitter’s […]
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
When I was a kid, one of my favourite movies was The Wizard of Oz. Back in the day, there was no streaming on demand, so you had to wait until it was shown on television. With few channels available, that usually meant the the movie came to TV about once a year. One of the […]
R.I.P. Hans Rosling (1948 – 2017)
I was saddened to learn of the death of Hans Rosling early this morning. He was a Swedish doctor, statistician, public speaker and Professor of International Health at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. He was also one of the best known presenters at TED. Rosling had a passion and a gift for making complicated data interesting and understandable for […]
Don't join Toastmasters? Seriously?
While skimming through my Twitter feed the other day, a Tweet caught my eye. It contained the link to a post on Entrepreneur by Jonathan Li entitled 10 Mistakes Successful Speakers Never Make Again. I was intrigued. I thought, I make mistakes; I should read it. So I did. Most of what I read in the post—which was […]
2,000,000 visits!
I have just returned to Geneva from a speaking engagement at the Toastmasters International Convention in Washington, D.C. (More about that in a future post.) At some point during the eight-hour flight across the Atlantic Ocean, this blog hit another milestone: 2,000,000 visits. I am in awe of this number and so grateful for all […]
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