It is natural to be nervous before a public appearance. Every professional entertainer experiences some kind of “butterflies” before a performance. The symptoms are usually a nervous stomach, perspiring, shifting eyes, death grip on chairs...
Professional actors are finely tuned to their emotions, enabling them to speak with the movement of a hand. An effective spokesperson also makes use of body movements to convey appropriate emotion. The following gestures and...
The most extreme tests ever in the strategic field of crisis communication management have occurred within the last decade. Much has been written about communicating during the BP disaster, and we have heard much about...
A satellite media tour is a different kind of animal. It is not a hard-news interview, not a talk show and not a business presentation. You are in a studio, facing a camera, and an...
As a former reporter and editor, and now media consultant, I have watched with great interest (and sadness) as the media have slowly crumbled in recent months. Thousands of print and broadcast reporters have lost...
Spoke this morning (virtually) to a global chemical company and at a virtual tech conference in Illinois. Messaging… https://t.co/a8ekBfNx6TOctober 30, 2020
Spoke today (virtually) in New York. Presentation tip 23: Your goal in EVERY presentation, meeting, Zoom call, conv… https://t.co/Bubq86nJ3SOctober 27, 2020
Spoke today (virtually) from Baton Rouge. Public relations tip 12: Pitching human interest angles is a great way to… https://t.co/YWAJxEu8YyOctober 20, 2020
Spoke (virtually) in Colorado and Ohio today. Q&A tip 17: Drop the person's name in the middle of the message you m… https://t.co/0Dp96lEMaSOctober 07, 2020
Speaking this week (virtually) in Georgia, Oregon, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana and Colorado. Crisis tip 17: Don't do n… https://t.co/NECW4UgwAEOctober 05, 2020
Spoke today (virtually) at a tech conference in Chicago. Crisis communications tip 7: Quickly address misinformatio… https://t.co/1GNXal2od2October 02, 2020
Spoke today (virtually) in California. Body Language Tip 12: Don't cross arms when you are presenting or having a conversation.September 30, 2020