Talking to strangers

Confidence, Connecting

Much like any other skill, we need to practice talking to be good at it. You don’t need to sweat buckets over complex presentations or formal speeches to become a good talker.  You just need to talk with people.  Lots of people.  Different people.  I know some great presenters who are surprisingly poor at just talking with…

Things don’t always go according to plan

Shipping

Actually, things rarely go according to plan. Take today, for instance.  Take this very post. I had planned to re-launch my blog today after months of inactivity.  I had temporarily suspended active posting while I re-vamped my website and created a raft of new content ready for regular publication.  Planning, writing, designing, building – for a…

Editing Heavily

Presenting

It is hard to chop content out of your presentation.  You worked on it, you had a vision of where you wanted to go and how you would go about getting there.  You filled that presentation chock full of ideas.  It was loaded with stuff that you wanted to share with your audience.  You crafted…

Conversations with ourselves

Personal

People like you and I spend a lot of time planning words that we are to deliver to other people.  It’s impossible to get away from it, really.  Every speech is a conversation, every conversation contains mini-speeches, and this is true whether the speeches or conversations are pre-conceived, rehearsed, or utterly spontaneous. We focus so…