by admin | Aug 25, 2025 | Presentations
When your presentations resemble a chaotic laundry room—with ideas scattered everywhere and critical points lost in a jumble—you risk overwhelming your audience and losing their engagement. This scenario reminds me of my freshman year at Towson University, where I...
by admin | Jul 29, 2025 | Audience, Communication
I walked into my ophthalmologist’s office for a follow up to some minor eye surgery I had and the first thing to greet me was an iPad kiosk. It instructed me to put in my driver’s license and then my insurance card. Then I had to answer a series of questions. All...
by admin | Jul 14, 2025 | Communication, Leadership, Presentations
Cara wore a perfectly tailored cream colored suit, with her left hand, she flipped her long blonde hair behind her left shoulder. The tennis bracelet she wore on her left wrist sparkled, and before she had said five words she seemed to own the room. Everyone...
by admin | Jul 8, 2025 | Communication, Presentations
Four minutes into our presentation to mechanical contractors at their conference in Kansas City, I turned to my daughter Katy, who was presenting with me, and put her in an impossible situation. I skipped over part of the presentation we had carefully outlined...
by admin | Jun 16, 2025 | Communication, Presentations
As soon as I saw him open the leather portfolio he had laid on the podium, I could feel my eyelids getting heavier. The CEO looked down at his script and read, “Good morning. It’s great to be with you.” And the rest sailed over the audience because by the time he had...
