Featured in Fast Company If you want to be remembered, do the opposite of what’s expected. And don’t waste time doing it. Here’s a fact that most speakers—even experienced ones—tend to forget, even if they know it’s true: People internalize the first things they hear much more quickly and effectively than whatever follows it. Your […]
Every 17 seconds, someone, somewhere in the world, is watching a TED talk. If you have access to the Internet, it’s likely you either heard of one or watched one. Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) is the cool, modern lecture series on a variety of topics delivered by practitioners worldwide. They inform, entertain, and often […]
I’m often amazed how many poor communicators spend hours honing their scripts, seeking to choose exactly the right words, only to pay no attention whatsoever to the visual judgments that audiences are making about them every time they get up to speak. Like it or not, without fail or exception, your audience is judging you. […]
Communication is a tool that has the power to be your best friend or worst enemy. So often we fail to really say what we mean to communicate. Poor word choices, spoken in the wrong order, with inappropriate contexts, can get us into trouble. We need to be careful when we choose our words but […]
When Jobs first introduced the iPod, he didn’t strictly talk about the hardware and software. He talked about the prospect of having a thousand songs in your pocket. Very simple language. Very clear tones. Very emotional language. A thousand songs in your pocket? What an awe-inspiring concept for people at the time. That’s a veritable […]
Every time you step up to a dais: • one-third of your audience views you favorably; • one-third of your audience finds you unfavorable; and • one-third of your audience is quickly waiting to make up their minds by hearing your first few sentences When you consider this, 2/3 of your audience is predisposed to […]
Chuck Garcia