So if your problem with public speaking isn’t your ideas or your design skills, but instead your nerves, what’s to be done? Old stand-bys like plenty of practice or imagining your audience naked ...

From clicking through slides of that randomly assigned group project you spent far too long putting off, to unveiling a semester’s worth of research at an end-of-year senior showcase, there comes a ...

Talking to your audience (not at them) means they can tell that you thought of them while crafting the message. They see themselves in your story. When you are presenting, engagement can happen three ...

A couple years ago I was asked to speak at a conference in Chicago. I prepared, in traditional journalistic fashion, by doing everything at the last minute and then walked into the event expecting a ...

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As I point out in my Amazon.com bestseller, Straight Talk for Success, successful people create positive personal impact. If you want to create positive personal impact, you need to do three things: 1 ...

Positive personal impact is one of the keys to career and life success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success. If you want to create positive ...

A high focus on self-presentation was associated with female gender, higher extraversion, lower emotional stability, more frequent alcohol consumption, and having tried tobacco. Given the association ...