Lynn Espinoza is a broadcast news veteran with more than a decade of media, presentation and executive coaching experience. She has developed personal coaching sessions for Fortune 100 C-level executives, corporate communicators of all kinds, doctors, lawyers and leaders in non-profit.
Archive for May, 2008
Chicken Soup for a Hard Drive’s Soul
Ohhhh. Ohhhh. NO!
I was spending Memorial Day working at a relaxed but constant pace. I knew that on this day, my clients were bellying up to their barbeques, away from email, and needing nothing from me. I could do more than catch up - I could get ahead. It was even a working lunch.
Annie Chun’s Asian Chicken Soup. […]
Couldn’t Have Been Any Clearer
I am all for clear communication and sending the intended message, but this one hurt.
The phone rang last night at about 8:30, and the caller ID said “TV Survey”. I like taking surveys, so I picked up:
Automated Voice: We are conducting a survey on television viewing habits. If you are interested in participating, press 1.
I […]
Essentials of Powerful Presentation
Until about a year ago, the bulk of my coaching sessions involved media training - maybe 80% - and most of the people in those sessions had not received formal presentation training. It’s interesting to me that my sessions today run about 70%-30% in favor of presentation training. I actually find this both refreshing and […]
Interview Don’ts
Part of my job as a communications coach is to help young and aspiring professionals to land a great job interview and, in doing so, land a great job.
Please spend a moment with this video for an example of everything-done-wrong. It is both hillarious and horrific. I’ll wait.
OK, now that you’ve watched the video, you’ve […]
Hillary Clinton and the Lesson of Mo Betta
This is generally not a political blog, and any political leanings I have are not revealed here. But something has been bothering me, and I need to get it out. I think it speaks to a broader issue of repressed emotions regarding a fish.
Like many of you, I am a political junkie and a media […]
Daily Presentation Practice
“I have no time to practice my presentation skills”
I hear it at least once in every session. Busy executives who just can’t find the time. What they are trying to convey is that taking a few minutes every week, or even an hour before an actual presentation, will prevent them from doing the 100-other-important-things on […]
Tone in the Final Stretch
If you’ve spent some time on my blog, you know that I believe that tone is one of the greatest tools of speech communication. While mine is not a political blog, I find that the political season provides an incredible speech-making laboratory. So I strapped myself in last night for what I knew would be a good […]
Presentation Tips - Authenticity
Of the many good presentation tips and techniques, there is one too often overlooked. It is simply autheniticity.
A spokesperson may be cool and calm. They breath right. They project beautifully. Excellent, natural gestures. All of those things are important. But what about the ability to speak in a way that says, “this is who I […]