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The bottom of a learning curve is one of my favorite places to be. It means I'm encountering content I haven't learned before. It means I...

He who is faithful in small things will be faithful in much, the ancient text reads. In other words, be excellent in the small things if...

Every attempt to become more effective in your work should be grounded in something more than just, "well  I want to make more money/get ...

*For those of you following along with the Effective Presenter series, thank you! This'll be the last entry for now. For access to earlie...

The biggest threat to your presentation is being forgettable. All the work you've done to define what you want your audience to know and...

*For access to earlier posts in this Effective Presenter series, click here. What it Is Stage Presence is the ability of the presenter ...

*For access to earlier posts in this Effective Presenter series, click here. If we are to believe Jerry Seinfeld's quip that the average ...

The crucial habit great speakers share in common is preparation. Up to this point in your presentation journey, you've asked the two que...

The first step to speaking with impact is writing your way to clarity first. In other words, if you wing it, it will suck. The attention ...

My back fence needed to be stained recently. So after 45 minutes of YouTube tutorials, two trips to the hardware store, five hours of lab...

Decide what you're not going to be good at.  Be strategically mediocre. Many of us carry around an expectation of ourselves as high-cap...

Mark Twain probably didn't say that the man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't, but it's still true.  So here's a ...

"Some of my best friends have been dead for hundreds of years." I was in college when I heard a professor say this. It was a throwaway li...