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Big Dog's Leadership Page: Presentation Skills view detail comment email this

This site covers a range of presentation skills needed to be an effective communicator, such as controlling one's voice and body language (eye contact, facial expressions, gestures), active listening, and reducing tension. Features a PowerPoint presentation, a presentation outline, and a training outline.
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadpres.html
Topics: Communications, Writing

Last updated May 7, 2006


Was Ralph Waldo Emerson Our First Motivational Speaker? view detail comment email this

This article explores the idea of Transcendentalist poet, essayist, and public speaker Ralph Waldo Emerson being the first of the motivational speakers, who today are known for "public appearances, videotapes, and books [that] promise to make us better salespersons, corporate managers, spouses, parents, or whatever." From the Virginia Quarterly Review.
http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2001/summer/pinsker-ralph-waldo/
Topics: Writing

Last updated Feb 21, 2007




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