What’s your hook?
July 22, 2011
Late last year when we started paying close attention to good opening hooks, we started noting those TED talks that had particularly good ones. In this 3
The heavy lifting is yours
July 18, 2011
A client engaged us recently to architect a brand-new signature presentation. So we got out our very sophisticated tools: some markers, flip charts and a
Hook ’em.
July 18, 2011
Everyone has their pet peeves. I have my pet loves. Among them, really awesome opening hooks. As in, how do you grab your audience from
You sure you got the right analogy?
July 7, 2011
Last week during one of our Influential Storytelling trainings, a participant was proud of herself for using an analogy to get a point across to the COO
A Family Affair
May 23, 2011
Make no mistake about it, presentations and public speaking is in my blood. I’ll just caption these two images to demonstrate my point. Exactly
What it takes to be successfull
May 10, 2011
One of my clients called me yesterday to share how her recent presentation went. We’d spent about 6 hours together reviewing, practicing, taping, testing, editing
Bullets are for guns.
April 7, 2011
I was at a meeting recently with a local township official, and when I asked about what highlights we should know about his community, he
The second time around
March 19, 2011
Do you ever wonder why ESPN Classics became so popular? We want to know why those games were so great. We don’t see how the
One Keynote, Five Parts.
March 11, 2011
Experience Columbus, our travel and tourism bureau, invited articulation to help curate their “keynote address” for their annual meeting. These five dynamic people pictured above
Live from the Desert.
February 27, 2011
To kick off this year’s TEDActive conference in Palm Springs, the TED staff held a special workshop day for TEDx organizers. I gave a brief presentation