Blog: Communications Tips
Alan’s blog will inspire you and your organization to be different, to have the highest communication standards at all levels, and to stand out and maximize your influence to empower your teams to greatness.
Speed
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 life." But...
Be Rather Than Seem
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 so....
Always On
Video Transcript: In the video that won't age well, it's three weeks from today that I'll drop my youngest child off on the steps of a dormitory. It's bittersweet. I'm super proud of her, but I'm going to miss her. As a dad, I'm pondering in my mind -...
Becoming Comfortable With the Uncomfortable
Video Transcript Probably the greatest barrier for a speaker to overcome is the internal voice inside their head. We joke in our workshops that it's the little voice on our shoulder. Often it sounds like one of our parents, or maybe an early teacher, or...
The Importance of Video
Video Transcript Due to the pandemic quarantines, live audiences have kind of been on hold for awhile. I've gotten very comfortable at looking at this video set up that we've got doing zoom recordings. Last week, I had one of my very first live...
How Do I Get My Audience To Remember?
Video Transcript One of my favorite questions, which I shamelessly stole from Joe Ehrmann in my work with youth sports is the question, “What's your definition of success?” As that applies to speaking or communicating, I've adopted this definition -...
How do I make Eye Contact in an online meeting?
Video Transcript: I was asked recently in an online seminar, “what's the most difficult thing you've had to adjust to in the new online world?” The answer was easy. The most difficult thing for most of us to do is to change a habit. That's the...
Find Your One Thing and Have a Repeatable Message
Video Transcript: When experts come to me after being asked to speak or to teach about what they're an expert in, they often have the feeling, “how on earth am I going to fill a whole hour?” I just laugh at them. You're an expert, you've got...
Can you make me a more CONFIDENT Speaker?
Video Transcript: It's the most common inquiry we get here at MillsWyck Communications, a weekly occurrence by phone or email. “Hey, can you make me a more confident speaker? I get really nervous when I have to speak.” Before we give them...
Write Effective Emails That Get Results
Video Transcript: In my dealings with people in the business world. I have never, not once, heard anybody say, “Oh, I wish I just got more emails” or, “Oh, if that email had been just a little bit longer it would've made it so much more...
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