Monday, October 31, 2011

Terrorists and snakes top list of Canadian fears

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The October 26th Vancouver Sun published a brief article describing an online survey done on August 23rd for the fa...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Giving presentations isn’t the top fear of employees in the United States

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Yesterday, for Halloween, CareerBuilder released the results of a survey on what employees are most afraid of at work. I...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Any Last Words?

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Last year there was a book by Robert K. Elder containing a collection of the Last Words of the Executed . (You can search...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Communicating clearly to nontechnical audiences - the grandmother test

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Albert Einstein reportedly once said that: “You do not really understand something until you can explain it to your gra...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Getting worse with practice: blame Toastmasters, complacency, or perfectionism?

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On August 17th, at The Science Talent Project blog, Eric-Wubbo Lamejier posted on Teaching to the Test and the Terrible Toastmasters - or: w...
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Friday, October 21, 2011

Speechwriting always needs editing

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Perhaps the first line in that famous soliloquy from Hamlet really began like the parody of Sylvester Stallone once used by Robin...
Monday, October 17, 2011

Where talk is not cheap

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A week ago the Washington Post ran a story titled At the Washington Speakers Bureau, Talk Isn’t Cheap . It discussed how...