by Alan | Jan 8, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery, Don't!
Heard a speaker today give a little blurb along the lines of: “oh, here’s something else I meant to say a few minutes ago. Sorry about that. I want to add it now.” This is exactly what goes through your mind when you glance at those notes and realize...
by Alan | Jan 6, 2006 | Don't!, Sales
Did business with a company almost exactly a year ago. I searched them out via Internet, ordered via same, and had a rush on the item ordered and thus provided my cell phone as the contact number. They’ve provided the ubiquitous monthly email spam to keep in...
by Alan | Jan 3, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery, PowerPoint
Observing another presentation today. Presenter well above average both in content and delivery. But… There’s always a but.Large audience so there had to be a mic (or at least, someone convinced them there had to be a mic). Presenter had clearly gone to...
by Alan | Jan 2, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery, Leadership
I don’t often run with the big dogs. Most often I don’t even qualify to shovel their… wood chips. And I figure most of the time there’s a reason the big dogs are in the front. So I was a bit surprised when I was directed to an archive of Bill...
by Alan | Jan 1, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery
I don’t know when I started noticing it, but the phrase “You know what’s really interesting…” begins an awful lot of sentences, and most of the time that I find people using it, I’d be inclined to disagree with them. I’d rate...
by Alan | Dec 28, 2005 | Communication skills
Enjoyed a few days of vacation with extended family. Had the “pleasure” of sitting in on an infomercial for one of those resort presentations — a very soft sell intended to raise awareness of the “opportunity”. I’m always a little...
