‘Public Speaking’ Archives
What to say after the performance?
You're standing in the lobby of the theater...the audience is leaving and a few are staying behind to greet the performers. Finally your friend emerges from the theater face flush from the rush of performance. They look to you...their eyes widen a bit and their eye brows rise up....they're asking for your thoughts...your opinion ...your [...]
7 Business Fashion Rules: Jeans at an off-site
Somethings about business never change....like the neck tie. Men still wear neck ties as a symbol of seriousness about the business. Heck, some men even fret about their neck tie knot cleavage! (You do know about knot cleavage don't you? The little wrinkle under the knot of the tie.) But blue jeans have definitely come into the [...]
Turn your Doodles into a Career
Can your doodles be a new career? Lynn Carruthers turned her doodling into a career and she can teach you how you can too. Now she attends meetings and conferences and draws images on a big piece of paper. She captures the ideas that are being talked about in words and images. It's called Graphic Recording and it's a powerful tool in [...]
Howling At The Moon
Assignment: NRF speaker support. January 19, 2010 One of my favorite scenes in the movie Moonstruck is when the grandfather played by Feodor Chaliapin Jr. is walking his dogs. When they arrive at the bridge, the full moon shines down on them and the old man asks, “Why do you keep me waiting? Come on, howl! Howl!” The dogs stare at him as [...]
"Shots Fired"
Two police officers rushed over to me, “are you the one that called 911?” “Yes” I said. “I came out of the strip club and was headed to my car when I heard a gun shot." I pointed to the far side of the parking lot and they ran off in that direction. Curious I followed at a distance. There on the ground between two parked cars was [...]
You have the right to remain silent….but your body is talking loud and clear.
How do detectives learn how to talk to a suspect? Do they watch Law & Order for hours? Nope. They go to School. They get intensive training on techniques to establish rapport (to see how the suspect responds truthfully) to exerting dominance to get a confession. Recently I went along on one of these training sessions. And it was [...]
A presentation so engaging that we ran out of lead cards!?
Remember science classes in Elementary school? Middle School? Did you play with an erupting volcano? Bunsen Burners? Dissecting? There is a trade show just for science teachers. And it looks like a bi science fair. Walking through the convention center in New Orleans last month I saw butterflies, crickets, tarantulas and even penguins. [...]
One Part Engaging Theatre and One Part Solid Content
Martin Ganapoler of the FB Theatre Team interviews David Hawks of Absolute Software At trade shows you want attention and you want leads for your product and/or service. The challenge has always been that the people with the content may not be the best presenters on the trade show floor. And the thing that gets attention may not be [...]
The Added Value of Improvisation in Business
I spent a week in The Netherlands with this great group of 4th year business students considering this question: Is there an added value of Improvisation in Business? And if so, what? And further, how do you get it and demonstrate the value (and by value I mean revenue)? My two and a half hour lecture/demo was attended by students, faculty [...]
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Does this look like a photo of a training session? It is. Instead of a room with desks and a PowerPoint screen, Phil Cutrone's team decided to use the tools of theater to engage the trainees. The training worked. Laura Bell, the producer and scriptwriter said, "we were rated the best session of the conference and the message got [...]
An Offer You Can’t Refuse
I got a call on Friday to appear in Las Vegas on Wednesday at a CFO conference as The God Father. What are the questions going through your mind right now? Here are the questions I had: How can the 'fair haired' guy next door look like Marlon Brando? And Why do they want Marlon Brando at a CFO conference? Drop me a note...and I"ll [...]
There you are!
I knew there was a reason I still read the morning paper! Today Dear Abby had some advice about charm. She said: My mother used to say there are two kinds of people in this world: those who walk into a room and their attitude says, “Here I am!” And those who walk into a room and their attitude says, “There you are!” The [...]
Want to Engage the Audience? It takes character.
When business needs to make a presentation they turn to an in-house subject matter expert and PowerPoint . This is the norm....the status quo . If you want to engage the audience sometimes a little drama is what you need. In this case a large silicon valley company wanted to demonstrate how their technology worked...so they brought me in [...]
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