SEVEN TIPS TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE GREAT SOUND AT YOUR NEXT SAFETY DAY OR CONVENTION Lousy sound can ruin spectacular presentations. So, if you are planning a "safety day" or convention, making sure the sound system (and technicians who set [...]
Involving your audience by being enthusiastic is a great way to satisfy them. The Greek en theos, meaning “god within,” gives the root for the word enthusiasm. An enthusiastic person has a special, almost spiritual quality of excited involvement in [...]
Here’s a question I get asked on occasions, which, when I was starting out as a professional speaker, was tough to answer, but isn’t now: “What is the single most important thing a speaker (or trainer) needs to do to [...]
It’s very inexpensive to do and can be easily used with any audience that isn’t too large. It’s a technique I’ve used successfully hundreds of times with all kinds of audiences including pipefitters, CEOs, nurses, truck drivers, engineers, and of [...]
It had only been a few weeks since I got my new job as an “Access Training Instructor.” I was assigned to give a “Radiation Worker Review” class, which was an annual requal class for anyone who had to work [...]
Last Friday was a beautiful day in Peru, Indiana. Everything was setup for my talk and I had time to schmooze with the employees from Schneider Electric as they strolled into the tent to sit down. Retirees and their mates [...]
Ten Tips To Help You On Your Journey I quit my “regular job” in March, 1991 to start my own company and peddle my skills to the world. At the time, I had a wife and two young children at [...]
I own a tee-shirt with this saying on it: “Doesn’t expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?” A silly thought for sure but it does hold a lesson. Over the years, I’ve had dozens of crazy surprises before, during [...]
Is that how you feel? That you are not a creative person? I hear people make that proclamation sometimes during my Spice It Up! seminar when I ask the audience to come up with creative ways to connect themes or [...]