It’s an easy question, you think. You’ve got plenty of documentation that can attest to your name, family relations, address, age, and even health status. If you were to ask anyone to introduce themselves, you’d probably receive a long list of answers. We all have a story to tell, and
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Would you believe it if I told you that a British lecturer was fired as a dorm supervisor (officially known as a hostel warden in England) because he used too many question marks in his text messages? The reason? He was creating an “intimidating tone.” Granted, Dr Binoy Sobnack—a physics
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HOME > SPEAKING > POWERFUL PRESENTATIONS > “W” Is For WEAVE The “W” in your POWERFUL presentation is for “Weave in the stories.” Storytelling has been shown to be one of the most effective ways to do three things in presentations: 1) grab attention; 2) keep engagement; and 3) improve
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HOME > SPEAKING > POWERFUL PRESENTATIONS > “O” Is For OPEN The “O” in your POWERFUL presentation is for “Open with Purpose.” The way you start your presentation is critical. Most audience members will determine within the first 30 seconds of you speaking if they’ll be interested in what you
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HOME > SPEAKING > POWERFUL PRESENTATIONS > “P” Is For PREPARE Whenever you give a presentation, think of it as your moment. Your moment to engage, to persuade, to inspire. Few opportunities in life will allow for you to have the space and format for a captive audience like a
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If you, your students, or your business has built a website, you’ll want to evaluate how well it’s working. One critical method of evaluation, of course, is to conduct a usability test. You can learn more about how to do that here: How to Conduct Usability Tests. Another important method
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There’s a lot of bad information out there in regards to the COVID-19 vaccine. Most recently, there has been a movement to twist the CDC’s words about deaths by those who received the vaccine to suggest the vaccine is unsafe. Let’s clear the air: that’s a terrible rumor and simply
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“You’ll never earn enough money as a graphic designer to support a family.” That was the advice my academic advisor gave me as a late-starting 21-year-old college student (I had been living out of the country for a couple years after high school), unsuspecting and still largely impressionable. I did
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Home > Speaking > POWERFUL Presentations > POWERFUL Approach QUICK NOTE! The “P.O.W.E.R.R.F.U.L.” approach to presentation design is something I developed to think holistically about how to give the best presentations possible, no matter what the audience, topic, or circumstances are. This article covers what the approach itself is. To
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For as long as there have been artifacts of communication—speeches, articles, books, paintings, photographs, ad campaigns, whatever—there have been methods for analyzing their effectiveness. In recent years, high school and college teachers have been developing easy-to-remember acronyms to help students know the components of an artifact they should be evaluating.
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