Everyone knows that stories have power, and business has begun to notice. So today, there are many great resources available — such as Thelar Pekar’s Applied Storytelling workshop — to help business and technical people make their points with stories as well as spreadsheets and schematics. One caution, though: If you’re telling your story to Read More
Your Public Speaking Personality
Public Speaking Styles: Why Js and Ps Sometimes Drive Each Other Crazy
Picture this: You’re in charge of a group that’s designing a new creative campaign. You’re all holed up in a small conference room with the requisite coffee, donuts and aspirin. You’ve reviewed the client’s needs, and talked about what the competition is doing. Now it’s time for the brainstorming to begin. It isn’t long before Read More
Public Speaking Challenges: Hate Conflict? (You Might Be a Helper)
How’s This for Irony? People with the Helper public speaking style are often less willing to tolerate interpersonal conflict than Reliables, Improvers, or Experiencers. Yet, because of their idealism, Helpers often find themselves on the front lines of social activism, either asking for money or trying to get other people involved. (And what an invitation to conflict Read More
Reliable, Helper, Improver, or Experiencer: What’s YOUR Public Speaking Personality?
The idea that there are four types of people is very, very old (remember earth, air, water and fire?); and sometimes the categories have been very, very weird (salamanders? bile people?). But the modern version of this theory is very, very good — and knowing the four types of people who are likely to show Read More
Your Public Speaking Personality: How Extraverts Communicate
Today’s post kicks off a month-long discussion of how your personality type influences your public speaking style. Are You an Extravert? The one and only question to ask here is: “Do I get energized by being out in the world?” Extraverts will say Yes! You can be a shy extravert. You can be a self-conscious Read More