“People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, never need worry about what the future has in store for them.”
—Owen D. Young
This powerful statement can be a guiding light for planning and delivering seminars. We present seminars because we want to inform, teach […]

Krushchev’s Shoe and Other Ways to Captivate an Audience of 1 to 1000″
by Roy Underhill.
What a great title. Any book with a title like that is bound to get attention. It certainly got mine! As a bonus, I found it to be the first book I have ever read that was “an audience-centered approach to […]

Watch the really good TV sportscasters. The best are animated with their hands and make LOTS of gestures. Good news! - They weren’t born with that presentation talent, but it can be learned.
If they were former players, they had to be coached to perform their sport at above-average levels. As announcers, they’ve been coached to […]

The CEO of a large company with 150 regional sales managers from all across the U.S. was planning his yearly address and about to make his annual mistake – a presentation to his sales team. To him, they were “the group.”

We’ve all made the same mistake that our CEO was about to make for the […]

I once owned and piloted an ultralight and was taught by my instructor Martin Yeager to always do a thorough pre-flight check of the aircraft and my mental attitude before EVERY flight. And he taught me to do it the same way, each and every time. There was no clipboard or written list. I had […]