Speaking Tips

 

DON’T GO IT ALONE

Sometimes heroes are just ordinary people with outsized intentions. They inspire us and fuel our ambitions. Killian Jornet is 5’7” and weighs 128 pounds. He is trim but otherwise unexceptional. Jornet recently climbed seventy-two 14,000+ ft peaks in 31 days and cycled his route between...

Roadmaps and Guardrails

At Eloqui, we train clients to work off an outline when preparing and delivering their presentations. Some resist, wanting to be “polished and perfect” or get every word just right-- which can create presentation train wrecks. Backing us up is the recently published book What...

Gimbal

Amy Tan’s latest book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles tells how she spent up to twelve hours a day observing and sketching birds. This prompted us to take a closer look at the birds on our property. We saw that when perched on a branch and...

Socrates vs AI

Numerous studies show that students who use AI to write their papers retain almost nothing about the subject, once the paper is delivered. And when instructors set the ground rules to use AI only for research, they found that cheating was rampant. Clay Shirky, Vice Provost at...