Published Articles

Below is a link to a brief article I wrote for FOCUS Magazine on creative ways to get an audience ENGAGED with your topic when presenting:     http://tinyurl.com/3fkbphq     Let me know if you try something new as a result of reading the article!

Ask someone who’s just delivered a presentation how things went, and you often hear something like, “Um…I think it went pretty well.”  Ask further, “What might be different for the audience as a result of the presentation?”–and you may see shrugged shoulders and a quizzical expression on his/her face.  Don’t know about you, but I […]

My brother, Cliff, recently forwarded an article from the Wall Street Journal titled, “Friendly Fight: A Smarter Way to Say ‘I’m Sorry’” (April 19, 2011).  The article shared five steps for when you’re angry with someone else: 1)      Calm Down 2)      Acknowledge the Difficulty (of having the conversation) 3)      Say ‘I’ not ‘you’ 4)      Find […]

I recently spent 3-days working with 80+ High School juniors, and a few dozen fellow members of the San Diego Rotary Club, teaching the students about business and the free enterprise system (program named, “Camp Enterprise”).  The students—from a wide variety of schools, academic progress and socio-economic levels—were placed into 9 teams of roughly 9 […]

One of the prominent themes in Public Speaking courses is the idea of “know your audience.”  It is typically shared as a means to help you connect with–and identity with–your audience.  Are they engineers?  Scientists?  Sales professionals?  Mostly female?  Male?  Long-tenured employees, or new hires, etc.  I’d like to propose another layer of understanding your […]

The Today Show on NBC the other morning had a segment on “What do you Say?”—or something similar.  They interviewed people in the street to ask what they would say—or have had others say to them—in response to challenging situations: a job loss; the death of a family member; a divorce, etc.  Many of the […]