How to Grab Their Attention and Make Your First Impression Count!
Every first impression depends on this important concept. Understand and practice these simple, attention grabbing strategies to keep your first impression from being your last…
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Public Speaker Secret: Position Your Audience
Public speakers, comfortable in their bodies, have a lovely way of inviting an audience “into” their message. You’ve probably noticed the relaxed way that a seasoned keynote moves across a stage or around the room, freely expressing and gesturing as they go. “What’s Their Secret?” Aside from years of practice and experience, the way to […]
Assessing the Power of Charisma and the Real You
I often speak about the power of Charisma, how it affects your level of confidence and your ability to be the REAL you. If you’re honest with yourself, when would you say that you feel the most? Engaging Charming Energetic Attractive Vibrant Alive Without charisma, you may struggle to answer this question. Yet, your level […]
Better Business Communications: How to Make Every Moment Count
Half of every business moment is a performance. That’s a pretty strong statement, and here’s why it’s true. I help people who desire more success to improve their communication skills, and I do this by using what I’ve learned during my career as an actress. As you probably know, the job of an actor is […]
Communicating with Success Involves Your Choice to Take Action
A week ago I wrote a short comment on my Facebook page about my choice to see the documentary “Amy,” the story of the rise to success and tragic death of the gifted singer Amy Winehouse. The film was moving, communicating the struggles of the young performer. It was also very depressing, staying with me […]
Communicating from the Inside Out
I was cheering after I saw the new animated film, “Inside Out.” What a wonderfully inspirational film about dealing with emotions from the point of view of an eleven-year-old girl. AND it’s a film by Pixar lending further credibility to a subject I’ve been teaching for more than thirty years. Inside Out showed Anger, Joy, […]
Taking Center Stage: Understanding the Heart of Presenting
I often talk about the importance of “taking center stage.” Taking center stage can happen on a small scale, such as walking into a room filled with people. Or it can be as major as making an entrance on a stage in front of a large audience, or in front of a camera. It even […]
Presenting and Communicating: Steve Harrison’s National Publicity Summit
I just returned from the National Publicity Summit where I “pitched” story ideas to as many as 120 television producers, radio hosts, producers, and journalists. This group represented (to name a few): THE TODAY SHOW FOX NEWS CBS NEWS ABC NEWS THE MEREDITH VIEIRA SHOW GOOD MORNING AMERICA FORBES MAGAZINE ENTREPRENEUR USA TODAY COSMO SHAPE […]
Successful Communicators Cross the Imaginary Line
I’ve mentioned crossing the imaginary line in at least one of my previous blog posts. I think it deserves a more detailed discussion because it plays such a key role in successful communications. The Imaginary Line An imaginary line exits between you and any other person, group of people, or audience. You must project yourself […]
Communications from Your Past for Your Present and Future Success
I recently woke up from a dream where I was 22 again and going though a breakup with a boyfriend from college. (A definite communication from my past.) I was moving back home to California and he was staying in Missouri and in the dream, I experienced the pain of that breakup once again. When […]