Communication Skills

Why do we think of so many great ideas in the shower? Four conditions are generally in play: Ou...

As anyone who has crammed for an exam can tell you, usually the number of hours we work without i...

Your workplace is filled with liars! How do I know? I’ve got this straight from one of the foremo...

This is a bibliography of writing books I recommend in my seminars. You may order most of these b...

Film and now electronic images have been influencing world events for almost a century now. The p...

Lost in time, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004 I shot this scene from the top of Lisbon’s fa...

The familiar profile of Half Dome is over eight miles from this viewpoint, which is just beyond ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Forget about what mom said about keeping your hands in your lap while t...

Judy Gombita spotted this list of Great Literary Taunts: “A modest little person, with muc...

One of the most debated questions in all of journalism is how to handle direct quotations. Journa...

Steven Covey had the right idea.  There are discreet skills and attitudes, habits if you will, th...

Dick Weiss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch does some neat stuff on writing  in his Weiss on Writin...

Writing good is a big deal these days. A bigger deal then math, according to my friends and I, bu...

A woman from the audience followed me into the hallway. “I think we’re married to the...

It’s easy to play up the adversarial relationship between “Hacks” and “Flacks,” but the truth of...

To create a cross lighting situation, try getting two stage lights, each hung from a “tree.” A tr...

So you’ve just finished your big speech. You think you covered everything. You hope you did...

If you plan it right, you can choose the exact moments to add impact to your presentation just by...

How do you define a GREAT presentation?  Is it the comfort level you feel when presenting, OR th...

The “priority” buttons are very useful, especially when your slide contains many objects or layer...