Your business goal when using social media, according to Phil Gerbyshak, should be “to sell with social media not on social media.” LinkedIn, specifically, “should not be a resumé. It should be a connector between you and...

When it comes to a speech or presentation, the concept of ‘planning’ means different things to different people. For some, the planning process involves thinking about designing slides, or finding ways to interact with the audience....

Virtual presentations and speeches are tough. You need to master framing, lighting, audio, and audience engagement techniques before you get to your content and your delivery.

And you have to cope with almost no control over your audience, with...

For environmental activist Steve Masters, working from home means working from a tree house. Since May the tree house has been both his home and his base for campaigning on environmental issues.

He’s using a laptop tethered to his mobile...

I’m so excited to tell you about the launch of my new Virtual Speaker online training course.

With so many people working from home, the virtual meeting has become an integral part of the work day. In fact it’s so familiar, a lot of...

A popular business-oriented program on the BBC in recent years has been CEO Secrets. For five years the show has invited business leaders to share their inspirational advice in short videos.

On the show’s fifth anniversary, and with 200...

We just posted an article on this blog about how the World Economic Forum regards storytelling as a key part of ‘flattening the curve’ and enabling hospitals to cope with the influx of Covid-19 patients when the pandemic was at its...

One of the big drawbacks about communicating in the virtual world is the lack of feedback. In particular, the screeen-to-screen format neutralizes our ability to pick up the cues and clues of body language we depend on in face-to-face encounters.

Not so long ago as a speaker you just had to worry about your content and making a connection to your live audience.

Oh, and maybe you worried a little about your slides looking good.

Now you have to juggle all of this, plus worry about your...

I’m just putting the finishing touches to my new online presentations skills course, The Virtual Speaker.

As I’ve been researching and creating the four lessons in The Virtual Speaker, it’s been interesting to see just how much...

The World Economic Forum has published an interesting article on lessons the Covid-19 crisis can teach us about communicating important topics to a wide audience when the information you are sharing could be seen as dry data.

The article says...

Speaking to a virtual audience is different from speaking to a live audience.  To be successful in the virtual world, you need to understand that world, and how it differs fundamentally from the live world.

Here’s the most important...