In the last few years, I’ve found myself at the interesting intersection of supporting a leader who needs to evolve into an influential speakers, and the corporate communications team that has responsibility for speech writing and feeding that same executive messaging to deliver. I shared a tip on this in this video recently, but I […]
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Development events, quarterly briefings, town halls, annual meetings, or investor days. If you’re a communication professional, chances are you’re charged with preparing the executives, researchers and scientists you work with for their moment in the spotlight– how can you make sure they deliver with impact? Ruth Miligan has some tips to share with you in
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Ruth Milligan is back with her video tips from the Articulation tree house. Today’s topic: how to create more inspired panel discussions at your next meeting. Admittedly, Ruth has not been known to be a big fan of panel discussions. Recently, she attended one, and was reminded why. Yes, she loved the topic of this
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This week I was invited by a corporate communications senior team at a Fortune 10 company to answer a singular question: How do you get speakers to do THAT? Of course, “that” had some different definitions depending on who you asked, but what they were really asking was: How do you hold your executives to
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As you’re preparing for your next presentation, will you engage your audience or alienate them? Here are 5 different but surefire ways to alienate your audience… and how to avoid them. 1. “Let me tell you the same 7 stories I told you I told you at my first all employee meeting.” That’s not a
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Emotion. Besides breath, emotion is one of the most underrated attributes of our oratorical treasure chests. Dig deep and you will find it can unlock the most unengaged of audiences. But what happens when you get really emotional while telling a personal story? Let me preface this by saying emotion is anything that makes you
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What do you do to feel comfortable before a big talk? In August I had my largest audience ever: 1,800 at the Convocation for the College of Arts and Sciences at my alma mater, Miami University. While I feel at home on campus, I did the things I coach my speakers to do to feel
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A while back a friend was invited to speak to the Board of Trustees at his institution. We discussed that while he knew the topic well, he didn’t know the exact question he was answering. “Does there need to be a question?” he asked me. You decide which pathway would bring him to a more
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Every conversation we have is with ourselves. And on occasion it involves someone else. Every time I repeat this quote in a public speaking class or executive presentation training, I get a good chuckle out of my audience. It’s the nervous kind, that says, “uh, you are probably talking about me.” What can you do
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As part of NPR’s StoryCorp visit to Columbus, Ruth Milligan participated in a panel discussion on the power of story and storytelling.
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