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How do best in class organizations prepare speakers

Senior Speech Coaches Laurie Schloff, Tori Hollingworth, and Dr. Ethan F. Becker are on-site at a conference and during a break got together to share the “behind the scenes”  of what happens at big conferences.  How do those speakers nail it?  It may look like they are winging it, but very few do!  How do best in class organizations prepare all of their speakers?  Find out how and why on this episode of Talking about Talking!

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What Google can learn from Communication Coaches

A recent New York Times Magazine article (Group Study by Charles Duhigg 2/25/16) discussed the Google Project Aristotle, a painstaking, in-depth study of what differentiates high functioning team meetings from stagnant, ineffective ones. With all due respect Author Laurie Schloff View all posts

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Virtual Reality for the fear of public speaking

What started in 1997, as an in-house tool only for coaches to use Virtual Reality with clients is now closer than you think for the masses!  Our interactive virtual reality experience is the first of it’s kind and will be available this spring!  It’s not simply a panorama image with static people, but interactive people.  The pro-version will allow a coach to jack-into the matrix if you will and control the avatars to create a

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Why do they say “Look”?

Have you noticed how many times a political candidate or commentator will say the word “look”?  Why do they say that? Well, let’s zoom the picture back a little and think about this.  Linguists and psychologists have introduced us what they refer to as  the ‘representational systems’.  They tell us that people are prone to express their feelings, attitudes, opinions and more through the use of one of three ‘representational systems’.   Author Dennis Becker

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