Years ago, when I was a more-than-full-time corporate speechwriter, I was working at a large internal meeting when a crew member came up to me back stage and said, How do you do that? How do you smile and talk at the same time? Until that moment, I must have thought that everyone could calibrate Read More
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Public Speaking Tip 67: Give Your Smile Muscles a Workout
I never thought much about smile muscles until a recent exchange. I was working in a Manhattan video studio, coaching IBM sales leaders on how to deliver selling tips by video; and on our first morning at work, one of the cameramen came up to me and said, How can you talk and smile at the same time? I’d never thought about Read More
Botox: “Smile When You Say That” — If You Can!
Facial expressions are the most important communications tool we have. That’s why, in old-time cowboy movie culture, “Smile when you say that, Pardner!” is such a chilling threat: It warns your listener that he’d better put the right expression on his face! Even though, apparently, no one ever said this in a movie, the iconic Read More