06 Oct 2015

Videos
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWz12NBCKbA Golfer Ernie Els was awarded the 2015 Payne Stewart Award for his charitable contributions outside the game of golf. When the award was given recently in Atlanta, Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning, who's company sponsors the award, was asked to introduce Els. His remarks were outstanding. Instead of rambling on about Els he came in with a pl...
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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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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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23 Oct 2014

Videos
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy8acMKab1A Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper yesterday addressed the nation in wake of the terrible tragedy that took place in his nation's capitol. His statement was extremely well written, one of the better in those types of situations I've ever heard, but the delivery lacked emotion. Now, it's important to consider that Mr. Harper probably didn'...
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16 Oct 2014

Videos
Skype is just another example of the length major news organizations are going to in order to make sure they get the "big" story of the day on their air. This example of the Dallas nurse who calls out her employer, Texas Health, for not following proper procedures in handling Ebola patients at her hospital only typifies how Skype, phone, Facetime and other less-glitzy forms of interview...
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13 Jun 2014

Articles
Whenever we conduct a Presentations Training for a client, the first thing we typically have to critique a participant on is where they should look while they are presenting.  For most, the natural place for their eyes is the same as everyone else in the room:  The screen.  Wrong!! The screen (of monitor in some cases) is for the audience.  The laptop on the table, or printed Power Poin...
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