by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Aug 6, 2018
Give a great presentation and you’re more likely to get promoted, sell products, win customers, engage teams, attract investors, and gain visibility. In other words, presentations are important. But how do you build one that’ll work? Based on my 20 years...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jul 24, 2018
A soccer coach can learn a lot about winning games by watching basketball. That’s the philosophy that drives Gareth Southgate, the coach for England’s World Cup team. By combining ideas from different fields–literally–Southgate has helped...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jul 17, 2018
Americans celebrate the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, but Thomas Jefferson wrote it with an eye on July 6, 1776. Two days after the Continental Congress approved the document, it was read aloud for the first time from poster-size sheets called broadsides....
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jul 11, 2018
In today’s knowledge economy, you are only as valuable as your ideas. My job is to teach leaders how to communicate their ideas persuasively. But I can’t help unless they have an original idea. Fortunately, there are some simple tips that you can use to...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jul 10, 2018
In business, an overloaded and confusing PowerPoint presentation is a nuisance that can result in lost sales. In a Navy SEAL mission, bad PowerPoint presentations could be deadly. While conducting my research for a new book on persuasion, I talked to Navy SEAL...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jul 4, 2018
Millions of soccer fans watched Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo steal the show by scoring three goals in the 2018 World Cup match against Spain. What television doesn’t show are the habits that turned Ronaldo into a legend: discipline, drive, conviction and...
