Let’s say you sit down to read a new mystery novel. You crack open the cover, flip to the first page, and just as you’re about to read the first line, your (soon-to-be-former) friend comes over and says, “The butler did it.”
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The Key to Effective Technical Communication – EP074
Seeing Things From a Different Perspective Effective technical communication is tricky because we suffer from the “Curse of Knowledge.” We don’t remember what it’s like to be unfamiliar with all the jargon in our industry.
How to Change Your Audience in a Short Presentation – EP073
Setting Clear Goals To get an audience to make a change in a short presentation you need to know where they already are. Instead of focusing so much on the time slot, we need to focus on the amount of change that is possible in our audience, given the time slot.
Just as good in half the time
When I was in high school, my senior English teacher was a granite pylon of a woman. Bat Masterson.
How to Create a Great Opening for Your Presentation or Pitch – EP029
How to Start Your Speech So you’ve done a lot of great work on your Red Thread and you think you have a great talk mapped out, but there’s one problem: you need to figure out how to start your speech.