17 Jun 2015

Articles
Spoken Word Group is happy to announce the addition of Mary Jo Caliandro-Hansen as its newest trainer. Recently retired from Schlumberger Limited, Mary Jo Caliandro-Hansen began her career with the world’s largest oilfield services company in New York. During her career at Schlumberger, which spanned over 30 years, she held a range of management positions including Director of Internal...
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20 May 2015

Videos

We recently had the pleasure of prepping Texas Teacher of the Year winner Shanna Peeples before she went to Washington and was awarded the National Teacher of the Year prize. After her recognition, she was invited to New York to appear on CBS This Morning.

Let us know how you think she did.

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20 Apr 2015

Videos

It’s hard to believe it’s been 5 years since the worst disaster in the history of the Oil and Gas Industry. Here’s an update from NBC’s Kerry Sanders that shows all is not yet forgiven by people on the coast.

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02 Mar 2015

Videos
It's hard to believe in today's day and age that a CEO would go on 60 minutes completely unprepared to do an interview, but alas on this week's 60 minutes report on Lumber Liquidators the company's CEO Rob Lynch sat down with Anderson Cooper and the result was, well, not good. Here's the clip so you can see for yourself. Not surprisingly, the company's stock was down over 20% at one po...
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22 Jan 2015

Videos
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyYrIAo3X4g Imagine the surprise when Bill Belichick took the podium this morning and gave a 7+ minute statement, mostly without reading and came across as credible and sincere. Who ever thought we would be using the words credible and sincere when discussing Bill Belichick? Don't get too excited though, when the questions started he was back to his old...
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02 Dec 2014

Videos
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd5sQEI_chs Like most of the country, I was watching live when St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch read the grand jury's decision on the Michael Brown shooting. It was clear to me, that McCulloch spent a lot of time writing his statement and carefully crafting the words that went into it. For the most part, I thought the words he us...
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07 Nov 2014

Videos
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMAoMOk_fd4 One of the many things we teach in both our Media Training and Presentation Training courses is how powerful the visual is versus the verbal. Now in order to understand that, you must first know how each of those two areas are defined. Visual means the way a viewer or reader sees something. While verbal is the actual words on a page. P...
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