I’ve just finished coaching a group making a pitch for a very large grant. The pitches were virtual – the entire team was spread out over multiple locations and continents. While everyone agreed that an in-person presentation would be preferred, that opportunity was...
I’ve been quoted by students and clients as saying I hate PowerPoint. That’s not true. I hate BAD PowerPoint. Which is, sadly, almost the same thing since it’s rare that I see slides and visuals that are effective, or even necessary. In the last month I’ve...
After years of procrastination and adaptation, I recently had my second total hip replacement this year. THR is a radical one-way street—there’s no going back. The surgeon sawed off my femoral head, cleaned out the hip socket (with a chisel and drill), and replaced...
The central model of our training methodology (adapted from Aristotle’s work a few millennia ago), says that great communication lives at the intersection of what you say, how you say it, and the relationship that exists between the speaker and the listener. On an...
An oft-quoted statistic estimates about 65% of an audience are visual learners (I tend to side more with this being fiction, but the actual number is irrelevant to our discussion today). Visual learners prefer to take in information through sight over any other input...
The first Christmas break of my college career, my high school friends and I decided to go snow skiing. Our excited troupe from Florida loaded up in four cars and headed north towards the North Carolina mountains. After stopping for gas at an exit in Georgia, one of...
