Presentations, virtual presentations
Ingrid Gudenas
How to change everything in a single ...

Everyone wants to connect. Most people don’t know how.

Executive Presence, Presentations
Ingrid Gudenas
How to Maintain Executive Presence When You ...

The most important factor in a truly successful presentation is the deep, powerful, human connection a great presenter makes with every person in the room. Slides can easily BREAK your connection with the audience. 

Causative Communication
Ingrid Gudenas
How to change a corporate culture in 2 hours

How long does it take to change a corporate culture? Apparently two hours if you have the skills to do so.

Presentations, Public Speaking
Ingrid Gudenas
The Communication Skill AI Can't Reproduce

There are times when I’m coaching higher level executives that they also have multiple speech writers to craft the key messages, and Comm’s Departments to create their slides. Now a number of them are also relying on AI to write their speeches.

Presentations, Public Speaking
Ingrid Gudenas
When you're not a "natural" public speaker

When you see Marcus now, you would say he’s a natural. You would be correct.  He is completely natural. A truly competent speaker IS completely natural. That doesn’t mean they start out that way. Marcus certainly didn’t.

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Transforming a screen full of "black squares" into real connection

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This meeting, however, was virtual with seven people Isabella had never met. None of them had their camera on. She was looking at a wall of little black squares with names written on them. They looked more like gravestones than people.

How do you build rapport with that?

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How to achieve a standing ovation

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Standing ovations are the hallmark of highly skilled presenters. They occur in proportion to how precisely you reach your audience, whether you hit a true bull’s eye with your delivery and your message. They start long before your final sentence. There’s only one driving element that produces them. Simply put, the depth of your skill in both message and delivery determines the depth of your audience’s response.

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