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Permission to Speak – Leadership Blog – Kelly Vandever Interviews Jackie Martin – Jackie Talks about Connection and Motivation at Work

Permission to Speak

Leadership Video Blog & Podcast

Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever

Permission to Speak is the video blog and podcast that loiters at the intersections of leaders who want their people to speak up, technology that facilitates connections, and results that serve an organization’s higher purpose.
Our guest for this episode: Jackie Martin

About Jackie Martin:
Jackie Martin is a keynote speaker, trainer, author, and the founder and Chief Motivational Officer of A Matter of Motivation, a business training and development firm focused on making change happen for …

Wednesday, October 11th, 2017 Category: Company Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Permission to Speak, Workplace Environment No Comments

Poise, Power-stance, and Polish for Presenters

By Claudia W. Brogan

Once the design and writing have taken place in preparing a presentation, a good speaker continues to aim toward refining the speech and delivery. As the heart of a presentation is complete, then comes the time for a good presenter to add polish to preparations for a speech.

Three areas for finalizing and refinement will help add good finishing touches.

Poise

“The key to winning is poise under stress,” says Paul Brown. The more times a speaker has actually practiced saying the words aloud, the more that “muscle memory” will help …

Monday, October 2nd, 2017 Tags: poise under stress, polishing your speech, practice speaking, tips for speaking
Category: Public Speaking as a Leader, Speech & Presentation Coaching No Comments

Permission to Speak – Leadership Blog – Kelly Vandever Interviews Corey Kupfer on Building Authentic Relationships – Part 2

Permission to Speak

Leadership Video Blog & Podcast

Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever

About Corey Kupfer:
Corey Kupfer is an expert strategist, dealmaker and business consultant with more than 30 years of professional negotiating experience as a successful entrepreneur, and attorney. The founder and president of Authentic Enterprises, and …

Wednesday, September 27th, 2017 Category: Book Recommendations, Communication, Leadership, Permission to Speak No Comments

Welcoming Feedback

By Kelly Vandever

“How do you think it went?”

That was the question the facilitator of the train-the-trainer course asked me.

I was standing in front of a group of my peers. I’d just finished delivering a portion of a program and I anticipated that I’d be receiving feedback not offering my advice.

My focus as I delivered my segment of the training class was on remembering and delivering the material. I was prepared to receive feedback. I hadn’t really thought about how I felt about the material I’d just delivered.

I mumbled something, I forget …

Monday, September 25th, 2017 Tags: clear communication, listen, receiving feedback, rehearse presentation, video recording
Category: Public Speaking as a Leader, Rehearsal, Speech & Presentation Coaching No Comments

Be Yourself, Not Speakerman

By Bob Goodyear

My advice to be yourself when you give a presentation is not new. It is, however, not easy to follow. I learned this the hard way during my very first business presentation.

For the first ten years of my career, I was a software engineer. I was never asked to give a presentation of any kind and I was pretty happy with that. That changed when I was working for a vendor who sold supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. I was asked to give a presentation and, honestly, …

Monday, September 18th, 2017 Tags: Authentic, be yourself, introvert speaking, public speaking
Category: Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking, Presentation Coaching, Sales Presentations, Technical Presentations No Comments

Permission to Speak – Leadership Blog – Kelly Vandever Interviews Corey Kupfer on Building Authentic Relationships – Part 1

Permission to Speak

Leadership Video Blog & Podcast

Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever

Wednesday, September 13th, 2017 Category: Book Recommendations, Communication, Leadership, Permission to Speak No Comments

Fire Hose Delivery

by Tom Nixon

The highly respected expert stepped to the stage and announced that he was going to “turn on the fire hose” and let the audience have everything he knows about the presentation’s topic. In a perfect world, all the brilliant insights that would tumble from his lips in this presentation would be eagerly assimilated by everyone in his audience. But in this world, that doesn’t happen. As a matter of fact, as presenters we are lucky if two or three of our important points register with just a few of …

Monday, September 11th, 2017 Tags: effective speech, Simplify presentation
Category: Audience, Business Presentations, Presentation Coaching, Public Speaking as a Leader No Comments

Handling Questions & Answers Like a Real Pro!

by Claudia W. Brogan

When coaching public speakers who want to polish their skills, one subject comes up without fail: What can I do to get ready to handle questions after my presentation?

Even the most seasoned, well-prepared speakers fear that audience members will try to trip us up. Or that an audience member will stand up to deliver his or her very own monologue at the end, explaining how our content or delivery — or both — were just less than satisfactory. Or a nagging thought comes to a speaker, that, “There …

Monday, September 4th, 2017 Tags: audience, ending your speech, Q&A, questions and answers, Toastmasters
Category: Audience Interaction, Presentation Coaching, Public Speaking as a Leader, Speech & Presentation Coaching No Comments

Permission to Speak – Leadership Blog – Kelly Vandever Interviews Steve Cohn about the Link between Customer Experience and Employee Engagement

Permission to Speak

Leadership Video Blog & Podcast

Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever

About Steve Cohn:
Steve Cohn has helped thousands of companies, seminar participants and audience members create better and more successful relationships with customers, employees and each other during the past 18 years. He has shared his …

Wednesday, August 30th, 2017 Category: Book Recommendations, Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Permission to Speak, Speaking Up at Work No Comments

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