“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;...
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...
Recently, I was interviewed for an article for Medium.com on tips for TEDx speakers to be more effective. I needed to make it clear to Yitzi Weiner, the article author, that I didn’t see TEDx tips as being much different from any other speaking endeavor other...
Okay, this might be a bit of an exaggeration, but seriously…other than the missing cell phone attached to her head and maybe a nose ring on the last one, do the ’90s look particularly different from the 2020s? When I think of the ’40s to the...
Twas the day before Christmas and ‘cross the North Pole All the elves were just dreading, deep down in their soul, The upcoming program for which they would stand And listen to Santa, as always was planned… What happens when Santa speaks? Oy! Milo tells you in...
