This tactic works every time when someone is glued to their phone. It also works for all kinds of things that are distracting someone in your audience, or when someone is the distraction. It’s worked for me for over 30 [...]
Core exercises are tough for me. I don’t like them, but I know they help me a lot. Same goes for viewing videos of my presentations whether it’s a safety keynote or training session, it’s painful but necessary if I [...]
“Before I begin my presentation, I’d like to ask your forgiveness. There’s a mistake on page seven of the handout. I forgot to run that page through the spell check. And I’m sorry about my voice, but I was up [...]
It can shake your nerves and keep you up at night if you plan to try something new during a safety meeting or presentation. I know I get the jitters when I stretch and add a new activity or change [...]
A fellow safety speaker who was starting out in the speaking business asked me if I would critique his style. "Sure, I said, send me a video." He had a charming style, connected well with the audience, had a wonderful [...]
I've written about this before from a different angle However, I had to include it again with this series of amateur safety speaker mistakes series because it happens so often. When I have free time at safety conventions I like [...]
Recently I was setting up for a talk, and the speaker who was ahead of me on the agenda was also in the room preparing for her talk. I brought over the hand-held mic and said: "here's the mic we have." [...]
Here's an idea from one of my "Safety Stuff" subscribers Cindy Nielsen/HR Manager from CRG: We are a small manufacturing company in Marathon Wisconsin. During the Easter Season starting in April, we will have a Safety Easter Egg Hunt. There will be plastic [...]
The Last Instalment of a Three-Part Series (Here are links to Part II and Part I). During my travels I get to work with a wide variety of companies and many different safety and health teams/committees. As with anything in [...]
(This is the second of a three-part series on adding new life to your HSE teams. Here's a link to Part One.) * * * Safety teams, after they've met for a while can lose their heart. I've sat through [...]