August 21st, 2019
“Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.” – Joseph Chatfield
Greetings, fellow technical speakers!
There are few other things that can accelerate the progress of your career than you presenting a…
August 10th, 2019
Stephen Covey (“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”) once said, “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” It’s ironic, but using your listening skills actually makes you a better…
August 7th, 2019
For this newsletter, I am going to shift emphasis a bit. I will tell you what were the three biggest “pain points” I had to overcome when I previously prepared and delivered presentations and how I solved them. I invite you to reply back to…
August 4th, 2019
Those were the words of astronaut Jack Swigert aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft on April 13, 1970. Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon . The craft was launched on April…
August 1st, 2019
The legendary coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Paul “Bear” Bryant, winner of six national collegiate football championships, once said, ““It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to…
July 29th, 2019
Let’s face it. The real reason we engineers and scientists do not get English degrees is that we are more comfortable with numbers than we are with words. There is no doubt the efforts of engineers and scientists over a number of centuries have…
July 25th, 2019
There is one indispensable ingredient to great technical presentations. It is so important to your presentations that if you forget to include it, your presentation will be uncomfortable to deliver, sound flat to the audience, and will make your…
July 22nd, 2019
On the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863 , there were two people who spoke on the Gettysburg battlefield. The first speaker was eloquent and spoke for two hours. The second speaker was also eloquent, but only spoke 283 words which have been…