Are you ready to present to your company’s executive group? Imagine this scenario: you’ve prepared all the best PowerPoint slides to accompany your practiced presentation and you have everything ready to go. You’ve organized all the stories, charts, and diagrams that support the premise. You begin. Less than 5 minutes into the presentation, one of
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Are You Reaching Your Audience? Beyond connecting with your audience, are you: • Stirring them? • Moving them? • Touching them? (Not literally.) • Rocking them? • Reaching them? How do I distinguish between connecting with an audience and reaching an audience? Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart tried to explain obscenity, by saying, “I shall
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Pulpit Presenters: 12 Speaking Lessons from the Clergy “Daddy are you going to church to hear the word of God or to take speaker notes from the preacher?” That question was asked of me many years ago by my young son while on our way to church. The one word answer I gave to my
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