Back in the days before Gutenberg, it took months or years for a few dedicated scribes to create a single copy of a single book. A literate medieval person, provided he or she was not interrupted by the Inquistion or… Read More »Effective Speaking: Keeping Attention
Keep your head relatively still most of the time when speaking! A case in point. My daughter took me to see Romeo and Juliet at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park on Father’s Day. Juliet waggled her head to express emotion. We… Read More »Communication Skills: The Head Waggle
There are men and women who live on the back porch of their souls, and when you walk up on the front porch and knock on the door, they take a long time to open up. You can hear their… Read More »Presentation Tips: The Thoughtful Presenter
Science is making progress in understanding sexual desire. Birds Do It. Bees Do It. People Seek the Keys to It by Natalie Angier was published in the New York Times on April 10, 2007. It’s fun reading, and should provide even greater… Read More »Business Presentations: Women Admire Men Who are Good Speakers
Let’s think of the mind of an audience as having two basic types of material–old impressions and memories of events actually experienced, and imaginative rearrangements of parts of these actual experiences which never really existed. For instance, remembering how your uncle looked when he… Read More »Presentation skills as personal development
When I heard Daniel Shore on NPR blame the listeners for the implosion of the Don Imus show, I felt a little ashamed, because I tuned in, I listened, and I laughed at Imus. I liked how he insulted his colleagues and… Read More »Speech Training: Don Imus and Insult Humor