An opening to any talk is critical. Yet most openings tank the speaker because of pro forma announcements like housekeeping, reciting their name and company, thanking clients or sponsors, or offering an agenda, all upstaged by PowerPoint. There is a better way. Great openings accomplish three...
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. A few years back, a young professional at a networking meeting extolled the virtues of Crypto and NFT’s. How has that worked out?...
At our trainings, we poll attendees about whether they experience more pronounced stage fright in front of friends/colleagues or strangers. Our unscientific polls tell us that it’s roughly fifty-fifty. The drivers seem to be that when speaking to colleagues, we want to perform well because they...
Morgan Freeman narrates a new TV series: Life on Our Planet which takes us back four billion years. The series focuses on events that accelerated evolution-- like earthquakes, meteors, and drought. It’s incredible that 99% of all species that ever existed are now extinct. The...
We just returned from a trip to Vienna where we trained physicians and sales teams in Prolacta Bioscience. Then we headed to Sicily and the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy. Stanley Tucci’s CNN series made us hungry for their culture, art, and food. We booked one Michelin-starred...
Yogi Berra was one of a kind-- perhaps the greatest baseball player of all time. This son of Italian immigrants, he played on neighborhood sandlots as a kid and never lost his love of the game.Berra added catcher to his batting skills. His specialty was...
We’re always entertained by excuses for backing out of a commitment. From the lowly “The dog ate my homework” to the lofty “Corporate policy is restricting travel,” we’ve heard them all. But like comedy, timing is everything. When you absolutely promise to show up, and...
Anyone who has ever been in an Eloqui training knows the word “help” drives Deborah nuts. We encounter this ubiquitous Band-Aid when people relate what they do in business or their non-profit. Unfortunately, when you use “help” it makes the rest of what you say...
Last season, downhill racer Mikaela Shiffrin accumulated the most wins for any competitive skier, man or woman. Now Shiffrin is training in Portillo, Chile for the upcoming Olympics. But Shiffrin departed from her usual events to do speed training. She even posted a video of...
Re-reading worthy books is a pleasure, and Wayfinding by M.R. O’Connor proves it. O’Connor focuses on episodic memory, or conscious recollection of previous experiences in time, place, and associated emotions. Episodic memory enables us to place ourselves in time, travel back to the past and...