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Zoom tip of the day: Get real!
Zoom speaking tip of the day on keeping it real when zooming.
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Is your accent costing you? Reducing it might be a valuable investment.
Should you consider the effort to reduce an accent? While cultural identity can be important, if your accent is a distraction for some (or worse causes them to have to work harder to understand you), this article may get you thinking.
Full Speech Ahead! “You Don’t Ask…You Don’t Get!” Interview with business coach/trainer Janet F. Williams
What stops you from getting what you want? Could it sometimes be just the fear or missed opportunity of not making it clear to others what you’re wanting? Perhaps not even making it clear to yourself? Hear Milo Shapiro interview Janet F. Williams of “You Don’t Ask…You Don’t Get!”
To PowerPoint or Not to PowerPoint − That is the Question!
Is it always clear whether we should use PowerPoint or not in public speaking? This speaking coach thought so…until a presentation colleague had me eating crow on the notion!
Full Speech Ahead! “What does it take to pull off 20 years of morning radio hosting?” Interview with Star 94.1’s Delana Bennett
Delana Bennett has been a familiar voice in San Diego on numerous stations for almost 20 years. She is known for her fun, outgoing personality and the ability to make people smile with her unique brand of humor every morning...
Labeling your flash drive
If you ever take flash drives anywhere, they can be left behind or fall out of a pocket. I recommend always creating a top level folder like below. That way, if someone finds it and plugs it in to be able to figure out who owns it, they can quickly see the answer and...
How to clip anything from your PC or Mac screen to make it a .jpg or paste it elsewhere
Snipping Tool is a great free tool built into Windows (and yes, I explain how to easily simulate this on Mac at the end). With it, you can cut any part of what your see on your screen and either save it as a jpg or copy it into Clipboard to paste into word, email,...
Who was San Diego and why is the city called that?
As a long time resident of the area, I suddenly realized that I had no idea how this area got named. I also discovered that no one I knew had any idea either. So I did a little research. Many assume Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the first of the Europeans to tread upon...
Full Speech Ahead! “If you can’t say something nice, what DO you say?”: Interview with Sarita Maybin
Speaking coach Milo Shapiro interviews Sarita Maybin: Sarita Maybin's book by this name provides practical approaches and positive phrases for those times when you need to say something NOT so nice. Learn how to constructively clue someone in, deflect the negative...