[NOTE: Big thanks to my Managing the Unmanageable co-author, executive coach and generational guru Anne Loehr, for bringing this article to my attention.] In a great article on PowerPoint abuse, Fortune Magazine’s Meg Husted quotes two experts on how people use PowerPoint to hide from speechmaking’s toughest tasks: facing your audience, and nailing down exactly Read More
Public Speaking Tech: eMail to Conference Calls, Social Media to PowerPoint
The Swiss Anti-PowerPoint Party
Get a grip, Switzerland! I know I shouldn’t criticize — after all, the U.S. has people running for President on an anti-science platform — but puh-leeze. I’m talking about the news, forwarded by my cousin Adam Lewkowitz, that Switzerland has a candidate running on an Anti-PowerPoint Platform. (Adam suggested that, if this guy wins, I Read More
Skype is Terrific: Speaker Coaching Through A Screen
As I write this, I’m waiting to hear from one of my favorite clients, an entrepreneur who lives and works in the Washington DC area (I’m in Brooklyn, New York). We’ve been meeting weekly by Skype, and though we’ve never sat around the (same) table munching and drinking coffee while we work, I feel as Read More
Facebook: It’s Public Speech, On the Public Record
Facebook Can Be Delightful and Convenient It’s easy to forget how recently Facebook came into all our lives. I got my first dose in 2007, when my daughter Laurika went online at the appointed hour and discovered that she’d been admitted to Yale. When we were done screaming with joy and (in my case), melting Read More