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Should You Practice or Rehearse for Your Next Business Presentation?
Dale Ludwig
December 27, 2021
December 27, 2021
Greg, Turpin Communication’s VP, has written a couple of great blog posts on preparing yourself to deliver presentations and training sessions. Don’t Overlook These Steps...
read moreThe Masked Presenter: Challenges of Being Live and In Person
Barbara Egel
November 16, 2021
November 16, 2021
In addition to being a Turpin trainer and coach, I also teach at a couple of different colleges in the Chicago area, and I was...
read moreWhat People Get Wrong About Executive Presence
Greg Owen-Boger
November 10, 2021
November 10, 2021
What We Assume An episode of This American Life from several years ago featured “Chainsaw” Al Dunlap, the CEO who was brought in to restore...
read moreWhen Team Presentations are a Market Differentiator
Greg Owen-Boger
November 3, 2021
November 3, 2021
When people participate in Turpin workshops, individual members and teams enjoy a host of secondary benefits beyond greater comfort with their own communication skills. Managers...
read moreManaging Conflict in Virtual Meetings
Greg Owen-Boger
October 4, 2021
October 4, 2021
This article was inspired by a question posed by a client in a recent virtual workshop. She asked: If you are part of a virtual...
read moreIdentity, Expertise, and Assumptions: Managing Microaggressions in Meetings
Dale Ludwig
August 19, 2021
August 19, 2021
As you know, companies are spending lots of money to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) among their workforce and in their company culture. There’s...
read moreLeadership That Fosters Successful Hybrid Meetings
Dale Ludwig
August 12, 2021
August 12, 2021
In other blog posts, we’ve been talking about hybrid meetings: how to lead them successfully, how to practice good participation behaviors, and even how to...
read moreShaping Employees’ Soft Skills Through Tailored Onboarding
Dale Ludwig
July 28, 2021
July 28, 2021
We’ve previously talked about the crisis in soft skills in corporate America—clear communication, empathic audience analysis, effective meeting skills, and the like. What we’re hearing...
read morePresenting at Conferences to People You Don’t Know
Greg Owen-Boger
July 28, 2021
July 28, 2021
If the audience for your business presentations is usually the same group of people—your internal team or a well-known client group—your assessment of them can...
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