These 4 Words = Quarantine Chaos (Guaranteed) Hello and how’s everybody doing? While some of you may be finding the “new normal” is starting to feel, well, normal, others of you may be contemplating space travel.   In… Read More
Whether it’s Zoom or Live, YOU are the Show OK, you have your technology in-hand and your presentation honed. You’re done, right? Not so fast. As noted in How to Wow, people retain approximately 7% of what you say.… Read More
Pitch (Zoom!) Perfect Now that the initial scramble to organize a daily home office routine has become, well, routine, many of us are lifting up our heads from the minute-to-minute-problem-solving of the last… Read More
“What We Speak Becomes the House We Live In” Years ago, I was lucky enough to be introduced to the Persian poet, Hafiz, whose book, The Gift, contains the following poem: What We speak Becomes the house we live… Read More
Do’s and Don’ts for Home Office Professionalism Do’s and Don’ts for Home Office Professionalism Now that the majority of us are working from home, I thought I’d send along a quick list of do’s and don’ts for… Read More
Present Your Best VIRTUAL Self – Starting Now These days we are all in the midst of a lot more online meetings and presentations. How can you present your best (virtual) self in these situations? One way is… Read More
Resources to Help You Set, Meet—and Exceed—Your #QuarantineGoals Greetings from my home office Wow-of-the-Week-ers, Like many of you I’m writing this post from home. And, like you, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to how to best… Read More
Want to Keep Your Presentation Alive? (or Short-Circuit Your Sullen Teenager?) Take Questions Throughout I spent yesterday working with four clients who are frequently asked to give speeches. One of the (many) things we discussed was the value of having the audience ask questions… Read More
“You’re Going to Do What You’re Going to Do Until You’re Done Doing It” Have you ever been in a situation where – despite what you think, know, or feel, you “should” be doing—you keep doing the thing that makes you nutty? I have,… Read More
What’s Your Intangible Cultural Heritage? Hola from Buenos Aires, We arrived in Buenos Aires yesterday and—for those of you who haven’t been here—run, don’t walk: such a beautiful city, such lovely people, such delicious food…… Read More