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Corporate Storytelling Training
November 5, 2012
A Little Nuance Goes a Long Way
In retrospect, I now realize that my first 25 speeches were basically about getting a feel for being at the front of the room. During my next 25 speeches I started to focus on what I had to say and how I wanted to say it. It took another 50 or so speeches before I […]
November 5, 2012
Tap Into Your Genius Brain
After leaving college, I took my first acting class at the famous Second City in Chicago. It was an improvisation class, and my first experience with improvisation. I thought it was a waste of time. What I didn’t understand at the time was how improvisation forced me to tap into my “genius brain”. I later […]
May 29, 2012
The Top 3 Mistakes Speakers Make
Why is it that speakers have such a hard time translating the passion they feel for their subject matter into passionate presentations? What gets in the way of their natural enthusiasm and spontaneous energy? a technical problem? a poorly-designed speech? a lack of confidence? Over the years, I’ve been contracted to help hundreds of aspiring […]
March 13, 2012
Using Corporate Storytelling to Drive Change
The year was 1998. I was in Lincoln, Nebraska at the Cornhusker Inn just down the road from the University of Nebraska. I was traveling the country with my keynote: The Positive Power of Change. This particular event was the annual meeting of a mid-sized tele-communications company. I had been hired to speak at the […]
January 10, 2012
Corporate Storytelling – Eloquence and Language
I grew up with a father who was in love with words. His reverence for language, pronunciation and proper diction was an annoyance to me as a child, but a gift to me as an adult. I remember the way he would read aloud a passage from a book or a poem. He had a […]
September 25, 2010
Corporate Storytelling in Business Training
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