There are many steps in putting together a solid, quality business case for IT projects like scope, criteria, align, etc. but the single most important one in "selling" the case is story-telling.
I have presented more than my fair share of business cases and I can attest that this is by far the most important. This …
Eleanor Roosevelt once suggested, "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself."
We can also learn from others’ excellence-when they get it right.
Did you catch any of the Democratic National Convention? Political conventions are great opportunities to observe a number of speakers with dramatically different approaches and styles. …
Well first, let me say thanks for the warm welcome Barry, and in the immortal words of one of my heroes, Dean Martin, "how’d all these people get in my room?"
Well as my bio states, I spent most of the 90’s hidden away in the deepest darkest recesses of the largest mountains in the world. …
Recently I posted a call for new bloggers here at PublicSpeakingforGeeks.com. Hilari Weinstein was the first to answer the call. I am very pleased to announce I have a second victim blogger for the site.
Michael Keen is our newest blogger.
Michael Keen is the Director and Senior Solutions Architect in the Enterprise Architecture group …
Read more »Yesterday I was meeting with a client , Ron, who mentioned that he recently watched the NFL Hall of Fame induction. Each of the inductees was asked to speak. Most had a piece of paper with their speech written out word for word. Some read directly from the page which wasn’t very effective or memorable. …
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Ethos3, the winner of last year World’s best Presentation Contest on SlideShare.net and the driving force behind the recent Presentation Design Tennis, asked me last week to do a blog interview with them.
Here are the Seven Questions -
1. What was the inspiration behind Public Speaking for Geeks?
2. You obviously have done a lot …
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Fear of public speaking is extremely common. Even the most experienced speakers get nervous. Many beginning speakers are completely overcome with panic and anxiety. This one issue prevents more people from reaching their goal to be an effective speaker than any other in my opinion.
Overcoming this fear and panic is key to successfully communicating from …
All too often, presenters get up to speak and wait until they are at the front of the room facing the audience to begin connecting. They get the deer in the headlights look that says, "Now everyone is looking at me…I’m on."
A simple trick to hit the ground running and start strong is to begin …
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Last I week I put out a call for new bloggers. I am pleased to announce that Hilari Weinstein has answered that call.
Hilari Weinstein is President-Elect of the Arizona Chapter of the National Speakers Association. She has a Masters Degree in Speech Communication from The University of Texas at Austin and is a two-time Collegiate …
Slideshare.net and ethos3 recently posted a new experiment in presentation design – Presentation Design Tennis. Of course, a presentation was created to cover the details -
Here is the final result. One of my submissions was chosen for slide 12.
Community slide design is a very interesting concept. I wonder if there is any interest in creating …