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AI speaking coaches are everywhere now. Apps that analyze your voice, score your video, and let you role-play a tough conversation at 2 a.m. are popping up faster than I can keep up with them. So it's a fair question: can AI replace a public speaking coach? I got...

AI can now draft your emails, summarize your meetings, write your code, and build your slide deck before you've finished your coffee. So it's fair to ask: if a machine can do all that, do human communication skills still matter? I believe they matter more. Handing...

Let's start with the elephant in the (Zoom) room: most people are a little nervous about their first coaching session. It's a bit ironic, actually, that they may be nervous about a session designed to help them with nerves! If you're wondering what you're signing up...

If you've ever watched a recording of yourself speaking and winced at the "ums" and "uhs," welcome to the club! Most people who come to me wanting to get rid of filler words like those are convinced that's that reason they don't come across as confident. (Toastmasters...

If you're Googling "public speaking coach near me," there's a secret I want to let you in on: the "near me" part probably matters a lot less than you think. In fact, it probably doesn't matter at all. I say that as someone based in Cincinnati who works with clients...

I've previously written about what soft skills matter most in the workplace. Now I want to talk about the benefits that employees and employers can get when a company invests in soft skills training. It turns out that that's a hard thing to actually write about...

If you Google "soft skills every employee needs," you'll get a dozen lists with a dozen different answers, half of them padded just to hit a target number (or to try to boost SEO specifically). In my experience actually training teams, three skills matter more than...

Have you ever gone grocery shopping hungry? You walk in with three items on your list. Twenty minutes later you're at the checkout with a cart full of stuff that "sounded good" at the time, and somewhere under the extra bar of soap and the impulse-buy snacks, your...

Presentation anxiety and interview anxiety have a lot in common. Sweaty palms, a racing heart, a mind that suddenly goes blank can show up in either of these situations. But interviews carry a different kind of pressure. In a presentation, you might feel like you're...

You practiced. You wrote out answers to the questions you knew were coming. You said "Tell me about yourself" out loud over and over again.. And then you sat down across from the interviewer, and forgot what you wanted to say. If that's happened to you, you're not...