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My Mother’s Attic Part 3: The Elocutionists, a Cautionary Tale

Dale Ludwig
July 16, 2013

Myths Debunked, Presentations, The Orderly Conversation

My Mother’s Attic Part 3: The Elocutionists, a Cautionary Tale

Part 1, Part 2 This is the final article about the perils of business presenters following the same path as the elocutionary movement. The great thing...

My Mother’s Attic Part 2: When the Rules Take Over

Dale Ludwig
July 9, 2013

Myths Debunked, Presentations

Part 1, Part 3 As I mentioned in the first article on this topic, I stumbled upon an old elocution textbook among a pile of books that...

My Mother’s Attic

Dale Ludwig
June 24, 2013

Myths Debunked, Presentations

Part 2, Part 3 Several years ago, my mother was cleaning out her attic. She was very good at throwing things out but always hesitated when...

The 2 Levels of Defining Presentation Success

Dale Ludwig
June 4, 2013

Presentations

Learn about 2 Levels of Defining Presentation Success

Your success as a business presenter always exists on two levels. On one level, it is determined by whether the stated goal of the presentation...

Just Because You Said It Doesn’t Mean It Was Heard

Greg Owen-Boger
February 13, 2013

Presentations

Just Because You Said It Doesn’t Mean It Was Heard

“I swear I said that they’d see incremental sales growth,” said Angela as she sat down to review her video with me. Angela was a...

Sometimes the presentation slide IS more important

Dale Ludwig
January 14, 2013

Myths Debunked, Presentations

I was working with a presenter the other day who was stuck in what we call no man’s land. No man’s land is a spot...

Trusting and Being Trusted

Dale Ludwig
December 5, 2012

Meetings, Presentations

Trusting and Being Trusted When Presenting to Audiences

Earlier this year, Greg Owen-Boger posted a blog entry here called “TRUST: It’s Yours to Lose.” In it, he talked about what a senior executive needed...

My Time Has Been Cut Short!

Dale Ludwig
October 29, 2012

Presentations

How to Manage Presentations When the Time is Running Short

I was on LinkedIn and ran across a discussion that caught my eye. The question that was posed was this: “You prepared a 30-minute presentation, and when...