Ep. 39 How To Be Unforgettable Using Captivating Customized Images Be honest. You’ve seen them. PowerPoint slides with images familiar. Now be REALLY honest. Perhaps you’ve USED a few. Here’s the harsh truth: Clip-art is to your slides what knock-knock jokes are to your presentation. In this episode, Darren and Mark offer insight into the…
Ouch. It’s frustrating and painful when you compete at anything and don’t win. It is more painful when you take the competition very seriously, work hard and fall short of your expectations. This pain is magnified when well-meaning, biased friends in an attempt to console you by saying, “You should have won!” That seemingly comforting…
Ep. 38 How to be Unforgettable After Losing or Bombing Special Edition Episode for Speech Contestants: You were SURE that you won the contest. You were set to ‘WOW’ your audience. You were confident that you would ‘ace’ your presentation. But you lost. You forgot your lines. Your speech fell flat. How do you pick…
What is it you do that you are really good at? You know, that area of your life or career where you have lots of confidence. You think, “I’ve got this!” Confidence is good. A few weeks ago, due to this craziness, I had an inspired thought, “You need to create a brand new 2-day…
Ep. 37 How to Connect Quickly and Completely with Manley Miller During his journey ‘from pothead to pastor’ as he put it, Manley Miller discovered the power of AUDIENCE CONNECTION, and has been committed to becoming a master connector. “I’m always exploring – how do I connect?”, he says during this frank, in-depth conversation with…
Ep. 36 How To Engage Your Audience Using 11 Essential Pace Elements The need for virtual presentations has skyrocketed in recent weeks, and as presenters, none of us wants to be BORING. But how can we keep our audiences engaged…especially when they’re bombarded by children, pets, spouses/significant others, TVs, phones, package deliveries, alerts, alarms and…
What makes you feel presentation pressure? A big client? A big paycheck? Colleagues watching? Family in the audience? A speech contest? The pressure is real even though it is only in your head. For me, it is creating a new webinar or like last week, an entire new 2-Day Workshop. Yikes! I only gave myself…
Ep. 35 How to Maximize Your Influence with Mark Sanborn Picture this: All your life you feel awkward, and out of place. You make the commitment to develop your speaking skills. You decide to become an expert communicator. You determine to be an influencer. You are only 10 years old. What? How does those decisions…
Where would we be without mentors? We all need them to grow. Have you ever thought about what brings them joy? I’ve been both the mentee and the mentor many times over. This experience was a great reminder to me. The result: Not long ago I went back to my roots to perform stand-up comedy.…
Ep. 34 How to Use Conflict Effectively Conflict makes a story interesting and suspenseful. It also engages the audience, especially if they identify with the conflicted character. But how can you use conflict effectively? Darren and Mark discuss the role of conflict, and they offer 3 keys to using conflict successfully. In this episode, find…