by Eric | Jan 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
SPECIAL NEW YEAR’S POSTING!As a business owner, you don’t have resolutions. You have goals.You do have goals, don’t you?Your goals are the over arching, high level objectives for the year: write a book, make $1 MM revenue, open an office, hire a...
by Eric | Dec 29, 2011 | communication, communications, lecture, presentations, speeches, Steve Jobs
The Gettysburg Address (President Abraham Lincoln).”I Have a Dream” Speech (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.).President John F. Kennedy Inauguration address.These speeches are recognized as some of the greatest in history. These speeches moved people...
by Eric | Dec 23, 2011 | presentations, small business
Recently I gave a presentation and did not tell my audience what the agenda was.The sacrilege of it all!! No agenda??!! That’s the first rule of presentations:”Tell Them What You Are Going to Tell Them.”It wasn’t that I didn’t have an...
by Eric | Dec 22, 2011 | communication, presentation, presentations, visual aid, visual aids
Your presentation enemies are:1) Clip art2) Bullet points (like this one) 3) Your computer (like the laptop you are using)But when you are asked to do a presentation, what do you do?Grab the laptop and dive into PowerPoint.The business community, however, uses...
by Eric | Dec 21, 2011 | career, personal development, Shaquille, small business
“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.” – Shaquille O’NealI am not normallya quoter or Shaquille O’Neal, but in this case he was right on point (plus he got the quote from Aristotle).I frequently ask myself if...
