If you want to position yourself as a high-status individual with the capacity to lead, consider this: Power comes from abstraction, not from facts. According to research in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, abstract thinkers feel less constrained by details… Read More »Presentation Tips: Think Forest, Not Trees
In a piece originally written in the late 1860’s, but published in The Atlantic many years later, Henry James Sr., the father of Henry James the novelist and William James the philosopher-psychologist, sought to explain just what it was about… Read More »Presentation Skills: The Magic of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Public speaking is a talent before it becomes a skill. A talent is a latent ability, something that is dormant inside you. When you work at it, it becomes a skill. If you do have a potential talent for speaking… Read More »Public Speaking: Talent or Skill?
Many of us are familiar with the work of Dr. Albert Mehrabian of Stanford University, who demonstrated in his research that 85% of emotion is communicated through voice tone and body language. Many of us have read Blink, by Malcolm… Read More »Voice Projection: The Power of Voice Tone
When I ask people to remember three talks they’ve heard or seen recently, most people have to think long and hard. I asked myself this question a few days ago, and this is the third entry in my response. I… Read More »Effective Presentation: Quick! Name three talks you can remember!
On our honeymoon in Nova Scotia more than 25 years ago, my wife and I were amazed to see an albino crow rubbing shoulders with his black brothers, who showed not a shred of colorism. I’ve never seen another. Now along comes… Read More »Presentation Training: White Crow, Black Swan