While preparing to give a presentation there are numerous things to keep in mind: your body language, knowing your audience, organizing your content and the list goes on. This blog serves as your go-to guide for touching up your speaking skills, inspiring your inner public speaker and restoring your...
I woke that morning knowing I had an entire day dedicated to one of the nation’s greatest fears ahead of me. Frankly, I was not excited. But by the end of the day it was perfectly clear to me that the skills and tools we had practiced were not limited to standing on stage in front of an audience. Being...
We’ve all been there before: the moment before a big presentation and your stomach is aflutter with nerves. Your palms are sweating and you feel like crawling into a little ball to find your happy place. Whether you’re conscious of it or not, your body language is communicating this lack of confidence....
Becca Hawkins is the Director for Compassionate Care at Providence St Joseph Health, Oregon Region. She has an extensive background in oncology, hospice and palliative care. Becca has made contributions to the oncology and palliative care field as a nurse practitioner, educator, speaker, and writer....
It’s the great purge season. Or, perhaps more kindly, the great reset. Welcome to the turn of the year when we say out with the old and in with the new - whether we’re talking about goals, resolutions or inboxes. We take stock of where we are in the world and what is to come. And we consciously (or...
You may have noticed that millennials are dominating today’s headlines, causing a stir for companies tasked with hiring this growing demographic, and poking holes in traditional marketing and economic models. So what’s all the fuss about? Depending on whom you talk to, the term millennial (or...
Your mother likely said more than once, "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all." In reality, that can be tough to abide by. In conversations, Q&A sessions and interviews - we can be confronted with difficult and downright 'un-nice' things that others are trying to get...
You know the image. Tears of joy streaming down a young man's face as he hugs the NFL commissioner. After years of hard work in the trenches and weeks of speculation, rumors and every misstep catalogued by prospective employers, a football player gets picked to compete at the highest level. Last night...
As we head into another legislative session, issues near and dear to our hearts (and the future of our state) take center stage. But when the session ends, how do you keep the conversation going? How do you keep the right people informed and engaged to keep the momentum needed to inspire change?...
It seems ridiculous. An anomaly. A statistical error. But according to research from two Bruskin/Goldring research studies more than 15 years apart, public speaking is the number one fear of Americans. That tops heights, illness and even death. While this may seem counterintuitive, take a moment to...