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...
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...
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...
Winter sports fans know Olympian Mikaela Shiffrin, one of the world’s greatest alpine skiers. She crashed through a gate in November of last year, suffering a 3” abdominal stab wound which cut her deepest core muscle (and other gruesome details). Weeks later, Shiffrin’s physical therapist launched...
Last week, while training in Chicago for CDK, we asked attendees about their ratio of virtual to live presentations. Most were virtual. Because they position themselves close to their laptop screens, conditioning kicked in. The attendees who were primarily on camera had soft voices that...