Public Speaking

There Is Always Time for Anything Important https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX6meqReWsU There is always time for anything that is important. If presenting well is important to you there is time for it. If building your presentation skills is important to you will find time. I hear from executives all the time, “TJ I would love to practice but

The show must go on. That is something I stress to all of my clients when they come to me for public speaking, presentation skills training. Way back in 2013 I was conducting a day-long workshop in my training studio in midtown Manhattan. It was a group of energy executives in from another state. I

Teach Clients NOT to Act I fly into Houston to a hospital to work with a surgeon there. I walk into the room in the hospital and there is a giant man. Before he was a surgeon, he was a professional football player. Actually he was a part of a super bowl winning team. Now

One of the most interesting experiences any of us can have is to watch and listen to ourselves on video. They say the camera never lies, yet when we see ourselves on video we are often introduced to someone whom we’ve seemingly never met. From our mannerisms to the inflection of our voices, you may

Are your communication skills where they need to be in order to facilitate the type of business success you want? Many otherwise skilled professionals in industries across the board still harbor a fear of presentations and public speaking, yet within that fear there lies an opportunity. Media Training Worldwide, a New York-based media and presentation

SOURCE: Inside Investor Relations You know the look, and it’s a look you don’t want: dark shadows, muddy sound, the camera peering up your nose. TJ Walker, chief executive of New York-based Media Training Worldwide, says the problem is not that Skype is low quality, but that people don’t use it correctly. If he can

SOURCE: Cutline Unlike the press briefings that followed the killing of Osama bin Laden, White House press secretary Jay Carney largely refused to answer questions about the U.S.-led drone attack that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical Islamic preacher turned propaganda chief for al-Qaida, in Yemen on Friday. “This is a significant fact, that al-Awlaki

SOURCE: Ragan A lot can change in 25 months. In August 2009, the U.S. Marine Corps issued an immediate ban on its members using social media on its network. Last week, that same Marine Corps published a comprehensive guide for commanding officers, service members and families to make use of social media sites. The U.S.

SOURCE: Ragan Just like real life, you communicate with a large circle of professionals, but the bulk of the benefits come from just a handful of clients or connections you make over months and years. 1. Find the reporters by searching through Muckrack. 2. Peruse the “contact us” pages of your local media outlets to

SOURCE: TVNewser The three network evening newscasts have been in a downward trend since the days of Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather. But for the first time since the 2001-02 season, all the three evening newscasts saw an increase in Total Viewers year-over-year. Compared to the 2009-2010 season during the just completed 2010-11

If you want to see your message quoted in the media, one sure way is to add a pop culture reference. Reporter’s LOVE anything that relates to someone or something that is currently receiving attention in pop culture or is generally known to the masses. If you say, “I believe that ACME Company did not