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by Alan | May 31, 2007 | Communication skills, Delivery, Leadership, Parenting, public speaking
Working with The Boy’s Tee Ball team tonight. We’ve really been working on his throwing. Hold the ball high. Step — throw — follow through. Sometimes he does; sometimes he doesn’t. Tonight for the first time, we seemed to have a...
by Alan | May 28, 2007 | Communication skills, Content, Delivery, Leadership
Traveling through DCA airport104 last week. As thousands of my closest friends and I sat waiting for our chance to be called as the next contestant on the “So you want to be a sardine” game show, not once but twice an alarm sounded on a gate door. In...
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by Alan | May 27, 2007 | Communication skills, Content, Don't!, Parenting
Been a long time. I’ll get back to it. Promise.Did have the thrill of attending Edward Tufte’s last week. I’ll have more about the seminar later, but I snapped this picture in the lobby. I was left wondering what message I should take away from...
by Alan | Apr 19, 2007 | Business, Communication skills, Customer Service, public speaking
Have had two experiences in the last week that left me wondering if I’d lost ‘it’. Neither was directly my fault and in both cases I already knew better.First, I gave a talk where The Big Cheese (the one who signs the check) and some other Big Shots...
by Alan | Apr 16, 2007 | Communication skills, Delivery, Don't!, public speaking
This has multiple variations. Presenter opens talk/sentence/paragraph with “I’d like to tell you a story.” Or it might sound like “Did you hear the joke that begins…?” Message to audience? You can snooze all you want, but I’ll...
