In addition to being a Turpin trainer and coach, I also teach at a couple of different colleges in the Chicago area, and I was...
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What People Get Wrong About Executive Presence
November 10, 2021
What We Assume An episode of This American Life from several years ago featured “Chainsaw” Al Dunlap, the CEO who was brought in to restore...
read moreWhen Team Presentations are a Market Differentiator
November 3, 2021
The consultancy’s project teams had inconsistent communication skills. The founder also recognized that the consultants’ ability to communicate clearly and persuasively could be a market...
read moreManaging Conflict in Virtual Meetings
October 4, 2021
This article was inspired by a question posed by a client in a recent virtual workshop. She asked: If you are part of a virtual...
read moreLeadership That Fosters Successful Hybrid Meetings
August 12, 2021
In other blog posts, we’ve been talking about hybrid meetings: how to lead them successfully, how to practice good participation behaviors, and even how to...
read moreShaping Employees’ Soft Skills Through Tailored Onboarding
July 28, 2021
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read morePresenting at Conferences to People You Don’t Know
July 28, 2021
If the audience for your business presentations is usually the same group of people—your internal team or a well-known client group—your assessment of them can...
read moreHybrid Meetings: Being a Productive Participant
July 26, 2021
In our first post on hybrid meetings, we talked about best practices for managing focus when leading meetings with some people in the room and...
read moreHybrid Meetings: Projecting Professionalism
July 2, 2021
One of the many interesting observations from the pandemic is the evolution of people’s Zoom backgrounds. Initially, everyone was excited to play with the virtual...
read moreShowing and Telling: Effective Slide Delivery
June 28, 2021
Learners come into our workshops absolutely certain of one hard-and-fast rule: never ever read from your slides. They look pretty bewildered when we respond with,...
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