Be Quicker on Your Feet: 5 Tips for Speakers
Speakers who are quick on their feet are perceived as more credible. Here are 5 ways to be quicker on your feet when you speak!
3 Top Soft Skills to Boost Your Career: DIGGING DEEPER
Building stronger soft skills is the one thing you can do to greatly increase your value in today’s job market! If an organization has two people with similar hard skills, the odds are they will hire or promote the person with stronger soft skills. This is why the world is full of companies shopping for …
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POWERFUL GESTURES: 3 TED Talk Secrets For Every Presenter
Effective Speakers Use Gestures Powerful gestures are essential if you aspire to be an influential speaker. Beto O’Rourke’s frenetic gestures went viral when he announced his run for president. As a result he quickly became the talk of social media, comedy shows and news reports. Gestures play a powerful role in communication and public speaking, …
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3 Horse Whispering Leadership Lessons
Let me start with a confession. I love any movie with animals as the leading characters. Seabiscuit or Secretariat are among my favorite horse movies. I am touched by the powerful storylines that show how those horses realized their full potential because they ended up in the hands of the right trainers and owners. How …
WORDS THAT CREATE WALLS – 5 Things to Know About Negative & Positive Words
Are you aware of how many negative words you use each day as you communicate? You might be surprised. You might be even more surprised at how your use of negative and positive words impacts your ability to influence others and make good impressions that lead to promotions and greater influence. As you speak, your …
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3 Ways Media Training Can Boost Your Career (even non-spokespersons)
The military has a reputation for taking undisciplined recruits and turning them into highly disciplined men and women. Discipline and focus on the battle field can save your life. Similarly, good media training brings discipline to how you think and communicate in the workplace; it can provide the right boost for your team and career. …
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RISK ASSESSMENTS – The Eruption of #MeToo Crises
2018 will be remembered as the year when the #MeToo movement hit the accelerator and began outing toxic corporate cultures lurking in the heart of many high-powered organizations. The movement is shaking up Corporate America, and waking up leaders to the new #MeToo crisis reality. CEOs, HR, Legal, PR and other leaders can use the …
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MEDIA AMBUSH INTERVIEWS – 3 Survival Tips
Imagine being at a business conference and you are next up to speak. You are thinking about your PowerPoint when suddenly, a CBS News crew is in your face with cameras rolling. They are asking why your online education company is ripping off students. This recently happened to Apple Co-Founder, Steve Wozniak while attending a conference …
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3 Sales Pitch & Presentation Tips From “Shark Tank”
Making it on the TV series Shark Tank is to an entrepreneur what an Oscar is to an actor. It provides the high-profile notoriety that can propel you to bigger roles – and with all of the glitzy buzz that comes with capitalism and stardom. It is the ultimate reality show because entrepreneurs can strike …
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WOMEN RISING: The #1 Secret of This Leader’s Power
Years before Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg issued the call for female leaders to assert themselves in her best seller Lean In, Sarah Vasquez was already at the table. Sarah has made her mark as one of the few prominent women in leadership with two major corporations: first, as Senior Vice President of Westfield Corporation in Los Angeles, where …
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