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The Design Gym Believes in Emojis, and So Should You

One of the great pleasures about finishing a book is getting to leave your writing desk and find the audience, people who share your interest in and enthusiasm for the topic.  Finishing Can You Hear Me? was no exception.  Perhaps one of the items I had most trepidation about was the use of emojis in a business […]

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How to Structure a Great Speech

How do you structure a great speech? Here’s a quick way to think about a speech structure that works in many situations.  A great speech puts the occasion, the audience, and the speaker together in an unforgettable way. All three pieces of the rhetorical puzzle are important. Begin by considering the audience’s needs. Ultimately a great […]

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The Can You Hear Me? Book Tour Comes to London

Harvard Business Press and Havas Media recently teamed up to sponsor my book talk on Can You Hear Me? in London.  The venue was spectacular and the audience was lively.  Thanks to all for a fun evening!

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What Speakers Need to Focus on in 2019

In my first post this week, I talked about the aspects of resilience that speakers will need to have to succeed in 2019.  The top one on the list was focus.  Going into a little more depth on the idea, let’s dive into the three areas of focus that are essential for great results:  authority […]

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What Speakers Will Need to Succeed in 2019

As 2018 winds down and we all get ready for 2019, it’s a natural time to think about what it’s going to take for speakers to succeed next year.  The trends I’ve seen suggest that the competitive climate for professional speakers will be tougher than ever in 2019.  There are more good speakers competing for […]

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How to Persuade Someone of Something

Most of us find ourselves having to persuade someone else of something – whether it’s a proposal for a new project to a boss, a VC pitch, or a proposal of marriage – when the stakes are high and we care a great deal about succeeding.  How can you increase your chances of success? 1.First, […]

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How to Make Webinars Better

This post is adapted from my new book, Can You Hear Me? How to Connect with People in a Virtual World, published by Harvard last month.  Pick up your copy here.  Why do people conduct webinars?  They’re boring, awful in terms of their ability to make real connections with the audience, and as a result, […]

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The Can You Hear Me? Book Tour

The Can You Hear Me? book tour is – appropriately – more virtual and about podcasts and bloggers than it is with the real world.  But recently I had the privilege to give a couple of talks in London (after the first one in Boston) on the book and good fun it was.  I learned […]

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Three Quick Rules for Managing Virtual Communications Successfully

In the last 10 years, with the widespread adoption of the mobile phone, the business world has become much more virtual.  Many of the things we used to do face to face we now get done with email, audio conferences, and video meetings.  Here’s a short video talking about some of the perils of that […]

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How to Improve Your Videoconferencing Experience, Part 2

This is the second post of two adapted from my new book, Can You Hear Me? How to Connect with People in a Virtual World, just published last week by Harvard.  You can order it here.  In the first post, I discussed how the two-dimensional version of your three-dimensional self on video can cause the brains […]

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