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Stepping out of the Lab: How to Translate Healthcare Insights for Your Audience

Our fourth quarter was a super interesting one, just like the first three of 2018. In short, it was a great year. In fact, our best ever. Thanks to all of our clients who trusted us to help them improve their TED-style presentations, storytelling competency and public speaking impact. While we coached and trained executives […]

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How to Give a Killer Presentation: 10 Questions from UXDX

Public Speaking and Presentation Tips, Ruth Milligan / Ruth Milligan

For the UXDX Conference in Ireland in 2019, I was invited to answer 10 questions about how to begin to get prepared to give a killer presentation. Okay, truth, there were 11 questions, but I skipped one. So here are my 10 answers in one, 10-minute, continuous video response (unedited at the request of the

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Coaching Speech Clients to Crank a Reluctant Wheel

Coaching and Training Reflections, Public Speaking and Presentation Tips, Ruth Milligan / Ruth Milligan

Our speech coaching practice rests on iterating: Helping clients crank a reluctant wheel from event invite to idea to proof to story to imagery to delivery to reflection – and then starting all over again.

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One Lesson from 10 years of TEDxColumbus

Public Speaking and Presentation Tips, Ruth Milligan, TED-Style Talks Commentary, TEDxColumbus / Ruth Milligan

As TEDxColumbus marks its 10th anniversary, let’s memorialize the culture of support that TEDxColumbus has created for the speakers to deliver such consequential and memorable talks.

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TEDxColumbus: 10 Years of Ideas

Public Speaking and Presentation Tips, Ruth Milligan / Ruth Milligan

To celebrate 10 years of TEDxColumbus, I present to you the ideas we’ve hosted on the stage. Curating and coaching most of these talks has been one of the most challenging, rewarding and memorable jobs I’ve ever tackled. Nearly every speaker always reflects about how much they got out of giving their talk – but

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The One Imperative for an Effective Communication Culture

Public Speaking and Presentation Tips, Ruth Milligan / Ruth Milligan

To shape a culture where the complex messages truly resonate in clear and concise ways, it hinges on one thing: feedback.

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This is One Time to Think Small

Public Speaking and Presentation Tips, Ruth Milligan, Talk Like Someone's Listening / Ruth Milligan

Your talk is only as good as someone’s ability to receive and understand it. When choosing words for your presentation, think small.

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That’s all the time we have.

Coaching and Training Reflections, Public Speaking and Presentation Tips, Ruth Milligan / Ruth Milligan

If audiences want short talks, why is it still so hard for speakers to oblige them? Here are three strategies we use when helping speakers to be more (much much more) concise.

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They Want the Teddy Bear, Not the Stuffing

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Are you trying to sell the teddy bear… or the stuffing? See Ruth Milligan’s presentation to Columbus’ Web Analytics Wednesdays group to appreciate the relevant metaphor shared with her by an analytics client and her top list of components to assure a complicated, complex topic gets understood by their audience.

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The Idea Reigns Supreme

Public Speaking and Presentation Tips, Ruth Milligan, TEDxColumbus / Ruth Milligan

Once a year, we enjoy an exhausting, exhilarating, thought-provoking discussion to identify the speakers for TEDxColumbus. What the discussions demonstrates is the commitment to identifying ideas worth spreading.

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Ruth Milligan

Stepping out of the Lab: How to Translate Healthcare Insights for Your Audience

How to Give a Killer Presentation: 10 Questions from UXDX

Coaching Speech Clients to Crank a Reluctant Wheel

One Lesson from 10 years of TEDxColumbus

TEDxColumbus: 10 Years of Ideas

The One Imperative for an Effective Communication Culture

This is One Time to Think Small

That’s all the time we have.

They Want the Teddy Bear, Not the Stuffing

The Idea Reigns Supreme

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