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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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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31 Oct 2014

Videos
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBUW2MU2PG8 Seeing Rikk Wilde struggle with the World Series MVP trophy presentation shows the need many individuals have to over some speech anxiety. Mr. Wilde obviously didn't get any Presentations Training prior to this very important presentation on a national stage. Shame on Chevy for not preparing their executive to deal with his moment in the spo...
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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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14 Oct 2014

Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqGx6fSlCWg

Unfortunately, this clip doesn’t need much of a “critique”.  Let’s just say after watching it, it’s important to know your material (In Mrs. Obama’s case, the name of the man she’s there to speak about).

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