by danarubin | Sep 17, 2016 | Public Speaking, Speech Coaching, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin_____ We all hope to be more persuasive, whether we’re selling, seducing, lobbying, advocating, preaching or parenting. As a professional communicators, persuasion is the most important skill you can develop. If you can’t persuade, you’ll never get anyone...
by danarubin | Aug 14, 2016 | Public Speaking, Speech Coaching, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin_____ Look around you. How many images of powerful women do you see? That’s probably not enough, according to Iris Bohnet, a behavioral economist at Harvard who has studied the American workplace and found a lack of women leaders to look at. We all...
by danarubin | Aug 10, 2016 | Public Speaking, Speech Coaching, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin_____ Interview with Erin Vilardi of VoteRunLead Erin Vilardi is the Founder and Director of VoteRunLead, a national non-partisan organization focused on getting more women into public office. In its first 12 years, VoteRunLead provided training for...
by danarubin | Apr 7, 2016 | Public Speaking, Speech Coaching, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin_____ Near the beginning of his new book, TED impresario Chris Anderson confesses he’s “not naturally a great speaker.” He’s prone to too many ums and you knows, stumbles and grasps for the right word, and can come across as overly earnest. Nice trick....
by danarubin | Jan 24, 2016 | Content Development, Presentation Development, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin_____ A few years ago Chip and Dan Heath hit publishing pay dirt with their bestselling Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, on the art of making ideas unforgettable, or sticky. Their idea stuck. As communicators, it’s our job to...
by danarubin | Oct 29, 2015 | Executive Coaching, Public Speaking, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin_____ The great wordsmith Peggy Noonan recently described in the Wall Street Journal how her early training as a radio reporter taught her how to tell a story. She was working at CBS News in 1980 when Mount St. Helens erupted, spreading a cloud of ash...
