by Alan Hoffler | Mar 7, 2025 | communication, public speaking
Every year for the last decade, I’ve chosen to pick a single word rather than making New Year’s Resolutions. This word becomes a point of focus, study, and emphasis in the coming year. My friend Dan Britton introduced me to the concept through his book of...
by Alan Hoffler | Feb 6, 2025 | Deep Thoughts
This wisdom, via a friend via a podcast, tells us why we’re so lousy at analyzing and fixing ourselves. We can’t see things for what they are. We’re too close to the problem, which is us. But it doesn’t stop us from trying. This is related to another quote I use a lot...
by Alan Hoffler | Feb 6, 2025 | Deep Thoughts
In one of the public speaking classes I taught, the students were remarking on the prevalent use of speech fillers. They mentioned non-words such as “um,” “you know,” “like,” and “literally.” Once they became aware of the use, they began correcting themselves and...
by Alan Hoffler | Feb 1, 2022 | public speaking
Video Transcript: In our public speaking skills workshops, we frequently ask how many of you have been told that you talk too fast? Usually about three out of every four people raise their hand and go, “yep that’s me talk too fast. Done it my whole...
by Alan Hoffler | Sep 3, 2021 | Delivery, public speaking, Stage Presence
Video Transcript: My wonderful home state of North Carolina has a motto, “Esse Quam Videri”…“to be rather than to seem”. It comes from an essay by Cicero on friendship. Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue, rather than to seem...
