Oct 8, 2025 | Feature Articles
Before we start this column, you’ll need to watch the 55 second video above for it to make sense (click on the one with the three bottles; not the picture of the young man). Warning: Some of you won’t like it. I get that. That’s why we’re...
Aug 19, 2025 | Feature Articles
What Martin Luther King, Jr. DIDN’T Say 61 Years Ago Speaking at a recent online event, a key piece of the presentation focused on how we open our talks. I’m on a mission to get people to stop ramping up to the middles. One of the worst starts I see, time...
Aug 7, 2025 | Feature Articles, Uncategorized
When I was a high school junior, I hit upon that certain rite of passage that so many of us do: college application essays. This was back in the day when we wrote them and maybe showed them to our parents, as compared to today’s parents hiring a ghost writer to...
Jul 8, 2025 | Feature Articles, Uncategorized
We’ve likely all heard the old psychological game, “Don’t picture a pink elephant.” Once you’ve heard that, you can’t not see it. Let’s take that a step further: we could show someone a picture and say, “Look at this picture...
Mar 29, 2025 | Feature Articles
“Vonn” came to me wanting to be more effective as a speaker. His material was fairly well-organized (okay, we worked on it some, but that wasn’t the real issue). The real problem was that Vonn’s presentation style was flat, emotionless, and bland;...
May 15, 2024 | Feature Articles, Uncategorized
Sometimes, it’s just not easy to make it clear what we do for people. Recently, a company just south of San Diego contacted me to ask me to run a public speaking skills class for sixteen of their top managers. I asked the cause for the class and heard back from...
