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Afraid of what someone in your audience will say or think?

July 10, 2012 2638 Views

Then head them off at the pass! The fancy communications industry term for it is “stakeholder management” which requires an …

Inspiration / Presentation Delivery / Presentations

Friday Fun Idea: Karaoke!

July 06, 2012 2575 Views

Have a speaking gig coming up? Are you super nervous? Having trouble maintaining your voice throughout your talk? Having trouble …

Curation / networking / Presentations

7 tips for getting speaking gigs

July 03, 2012 2932 Views

As a presentation coach and sometimes curator, folks are constantly walking up to me and saying “Wow, I love speaking. …

Design / Inspiration / Metaphor / Presentations

Metaphors series: Leadership

June 26, 2012 3349 Views

In continuation on my series of brainstorms for alternatives to “played out visual metaphors,” I’m attacking Leadership. This is one …

Design / Images / Inspiration / Metaphor / Presentations

Metaphors series: Balanced/Unbalanced

June 22, 2012 14980 Views

As noted in my last post, I love metaphors and am a huge fan of using them to presentations. I …

Design / Presentations

Love thy slide master

June 12, 2012 2400 Views

Master template in PowerPoint, that is! I can’t tell you how many PowerPoint files I work on where the creator …

Design / Guest post / Presentations

Welcome to CONSISTENCY, a guest post by Robyn Wolf

June 05, 2012 2805 Views

About a year and a half ago, I did a few weeks at GREY Advertising, helping their staff presentation specialist, …

Audience / networking / Presentations

Wanna feel more comfortable with your audience?

June 01, 2012 2901 Views

Let’s say you’re about to speak at a large-stage conference and you’re totally nervous. You hardly know anyone in the …

Color / Images / Presentations

Language for discussing images

May 29, 2012 3084 Views

When working with clients, we sometimes butt-heads when speaking about images. Not because we have different taste, but because we …

Inspiration / Presentations

Some of my favorite TED talks

April 19, 2012 4418 Views

When I was coaching TEDxHarlem, a number of the speakers asked me for talk references. Typically, my next steps would …

Afraid of what someone in your audience will say or think?

Friday Fun Idea: Karaoke!

7 tips for getting speaking gigs

Metaphors series: Leadership

Metaphors series: Balanced/Unbalanced

Love thy slide master

Welcome to CONSISTENCY, a guest post by Robyn Wolf

Wanna feel more comfortable with your audience?

Language for discussing images

Some of my favorite TED talks

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