Leading Remote Teams During Challenging Times
If your organization is like many others, you’re worried about the spread of Coronavirus and what it means to your people and your business. It’s [...]
4 Things Nervous, Over-Preparing Presenters Can Do to Calm Down and Engage
I recently delivered a workshop for eight very nervous presenters. They were a great group and talked very frankly about their worries and concerns about [...]
Three Must-Haves For Running Fruitful Business Meetings
Whenever you’re delivering a presentation or running a meeting, one of your primary responsibilities is to facilitate the discussion that takes place during it. After [...]
Presentation Skills Training: REDEFINED.
Josh Bersin wrote an interesting article on LinkedIn about the mismatch between academic education and job skills. What jumped out at me was research showing that [...]
The Orderly Conversation Defined
One of the most important things for business communicators to understand is the distinction between a speech and a presentation. They are not the same. [...]
Getting Presentations Started: How to set context and manage nervousness
Many presenters ask us about the best way to get their presentations started. They say that once the conversation gets going, they’re fine. But getting [...]
4 Ways to Progress from a Trainer to a ‘Thinking Coach’
If you are a trainer or a SME who delivers training, one of your major responsibilities, and possibly one of your major challenges, is knowing [...]
25 Lessons Over 25 Years
August 29, 2017 marks Turpin’s twenty-fifth anniversary. That’s an exciting and satisfying thing for me to think about. Strangely, I’m writing this at the office [...]
What we wish everyone knew about meeting behavior
In previous blogs, I’ve written about the need for meeting facilitators to initiate and manage the conversation that takes place during meetings and about how team presentations [...]
What Everyone Ought to Know About Delivering Team Presentations
I’ve written a lot about how important it is for presenters to initiate and manage a genuine conversation with their audiences—how it’s the presenter’s responsibility [...]