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Presentation Skills Workshop

Honored to present recently in New Jersey. I did a half-day workshop on Presentation Skills in Secaucas with Quest Diagnostics. Trivia: Secaucas (which borders both The Meadowlands and Hoboken) means “place of snakes” in Algonquin. Here is an overview of the workshop: Becoming an effective communicator and creating engaging presentations is an essential business skill. According […]

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This is the ONE thing that causes most presentations to fail…

It’s DISCOVERY. Failing to give your audience time to process new ideas/concepts and allow them the space to discover how to implement what they’ve learned. Big thanks to Victoria Tracy Ringwood and Nikki Jones for providing me the opportunity to present to KONICA MINOLTA, INC. in Mahwah, New Jersey. I shared lessons about customer centricity from both Purple Goldfish 2.0 and

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The biggest gift you can give your audience as a presenter

What’s the biggest gift you can give your audience as a presenter… It’s being present. You can’t spell the word presentation without “present.” OK, so we’re not talking about the “gift” kind of presents. But the “being present IN the moment” form of presence. Perhaps the best advice on presence comes from Patsy Rodenburg. Rodenburg

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