Public speaking is tough enough.  If you’re not content with your content, it gets a lot tougher.  If you know or even suspect your content lacks something, your confidence will wane, your excitement will dissipate, and your fear of failure will escalate.
There are several ways to screw up content development.
#1 in my book is [...]

Why communication skills training?  Why now? 
Before I can answer, let me first ask you a couple of probing questions.   Are you feeling pressure to justify every dollar you spend?  Would you like to strengthen your current efforts to finding and securing new customers?  Could you be doing more to improve your relationships with existing customers?
If your answer is “Yes” to any [...]

Public speaking feeds the ego.  When you step onto the platform, all eyes are on you.  You might even get the feeling you matter.  Your ego is further enhanced if you do a good job.  Can you hear the applause?  Can you see their smiles?  Can you feel the love?   There’s no longer any [...]

“Cut!”  Back in the days when I produced film and video programs, that cry was heard many times throughout the day when a take was successfully recorded or when there was a screw-up in the middle of the take requiring a ”Take 2″ (or 3 or 10 or 11!).
In today’s business environment upper management has been yelling “Cut” more [...]

Can you feel it?  Is your hand poised over the panic button while beads of sweat begin to form on your furrowed brow?    Have you noticed you can’t stay focused on anything for more than a few seconds at a time?  Was it you who just asked your boss to repeat what he anxiously just aked [...]