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.
Blog posts on this site tagged with 'presentation training'
Why Bad Meetings Happen to Good People
A colleague of mine, stuck in yet another meeting-of-small-consequence decided not to doodle this time. On this day, he drowned out the usual corporate yammering by penning the following:
Too many meetings
in working america
too much, stop it now
If you work in an organization of more than 20 people, communicating with each other by way of meetings is sometimes a necessity. […]
How to Speak like Steve Jobs
In almost every presentation training session, I hear this:
“I want to speak like Steve Jobs.”
I’m sorry, you can’t - but please read on.
Steve Jobs is Steve Jobs because there is only one of him. He is absolutely authentic in his approach to speaking. If you are trying to learn to speak like him, you have probably studied […]
Business Resolutions for 2010
Au Revoir, 2009. Hasta la vista, baby. Good riddance.
For all but a very few of us, 2009 was the worst economic year ever. Though just a few depression-era babies are still in the business world, the rest of us are, well, just depressed. It’s time, though, to pay homage to the fact that we picked […]
On Communications and Credibility
Oh boy, do I hear this a lot: “I can’t be successful with my communications program, because communicators have no credibility with the executives!” In many cases, both statements are true. You can’t be successful if your executives aren’t buying in, and you’ll never have credibility if you are not successful. Chicken or the egg, […]
I Want to Speak Like Steve Jobs
In nearly all of my presentation skills sessions, I ask the question, “If you could present like someone else, who would it be?” The answer is often “Steve Jobs”.
My answer is always, “I’m sorry. You can’t”
The reason is that the head of Apple, Steve Jobs, is entirely authentic when he speaks. He has his own […]
Executive Training is No Luxury
The world of business is a scary place right now. Budgets are evaporating. There are layoffs across the board. Having to let good people go cuts to the emotional core of the executives making the cost cutting decisions. That makes it harder for them to rationalize a training budget; training becomes a non-essential line item.
That is, until the […]
Inviting Barack Obama to a Presentation Training Session
I know what you’re thinking. Barack Obama is one of the finest orators ever. Why, then, do I recommend that he dedicate some time to presentation training?
Because public speaking is not only about scripted oratory. It is more than delivering an elegant and eloquent public address. In fact as President, Barack Obama will spend more […]
When YOU should NOT be the spokesperson!
You’ve been tapped to be the speaker at an industry event. There is a nagging feeling deep inside your gut that you are being set up for failure. The content for the speech is not your own, and in fact this is not your area of expertise.
You feel like you’re over your head.
Guess what? […]
Let the Games Begin!
I loved watching Michael Phelps. We knew he could win eight golds, but we didn’t know for certain that he would. Especially with two relays, there were things out of his control. High stakes. High drama. Delicious!
So as the athletic Olympics close and the political Olympics begin, there are some similarities. The knowing and simultaneous unknowing. […]
On Giving Speeches and Telling Stories
I ran across a terrific video interview on my favorite web site for communicators, Ragan.com. It’s an interview with veteran speech writer, Hal Gordon. He wrote speeches for Ronald Reagan and Colin Powell - universally accepted as powerful speakers, regardless of your politics.
Mr. Gordon drives home the importance of peppering a speech with anecdotes. Not […]