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
Effective communicators are aware that persuasion is a high-wire act–it requires precision and balance. Or it’s like Olympic figure skating. You practice your message until you know every micro move you’re going to make, and you pray that you don’t… Read More »19 Paradoxical Things Good Presenters Do
How can a good presenter get better? That’s something many people would like to know. I believe that we stand on the shoulders of people who came before us. So, one of the golden rules of public speaking–at least in… Read More »How Can a Good Presenter Get Better?
Talk about the power of public speaking! With one little speech Oprah is now a possible candidate for the highest office in the land. How did she do it? Well, she first built a room and decorated it so that… Read More »Oprah evokes MLK on her way to the White House
Cherish people who are eccentric. They see things differently. Kurt Vonnegut authored several books that transfixed the reading public from 1959 to the posthumous publication of his last work in 2013, including The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Cat’s Cradle,… Read More »18 Quotes from a Brilliant Eccentric
Most of us are not happy presenters. Consider the complications: the drill of assembling our ideas, putting them in order, finding that, nope, they’re out of order, rearranging them, developing slides, exhausting our eyes as we create clever little graphics,… Read More »The Happy Presenter