Geoffrey, I want to acknowledge and let you know I appreciate the contribution you made at the very start in securing Vancouver as the venue for the 2010 Olympics Games. You must be proud of how your little acorn has grown into a mighty oak. All the best, Patrick Hunt Hi Patrick, I am sorry [...]
Leadership is the ability to inspire and influence a group of people to achieve worthwhile goals. A leader is one who can influence and inspire people to a far greater cause other than his own. To appreciate the value of leadership we must first know the characteristics of a leader, the traits a leader is [...]
Getting ready for 2010 I have a tradition of reviewing the past year and preparing for the New Year. I use these questions to bring clarity, understanding and for creating what I want in the next year. Over a glass of wine Brigitte and I look at the past year, so that we can let [...]
It is odd thing that some speakers, presenters and communicators, somehow think their thoughts and feelings are invisible to the audience. It is as if they think they can fool all of the people all of the time. What is sad is when they fool some people once, then they believe that is a successful [...]
I often get comments and occasional questions about what I am doing or from events that I speak at. Here is my response to a recent comment and I believe that we often forget that “presentation skills” is far more than giving a speech, (Leadership In The Always On World 2009/02/10). I am happy to [...]
Melissa’s Question Hi Geoffrey thanks for your blog. I’m enjoying receiving it and I thought that you could write a blog about how to present yourself for interviewing … it would be quite relevant and I am sure you have the knowledge to share kindest regards, Melissa Geoffrey’s Response Hi Melissa, it’s about presenting yourself [...]
THE DIGITAL WORLD With millions of mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders in use in North America we are living in an ‘always on’ world, and any recording of you can be displayed via podcasts, ‘youtube.com’, or video camera – an event that would have been, seen only once by one person and then allowed [...]
Be Happy ~ Authentic Wealth With the balance of the year (2008) having one piece of bad news after another, it would be reasonable to feel mildly or completely depressed this New Years eve. The media has done a fantastic job of spreading the bad news in 2008 and setting it up for 2009 rather [...]
Are they mutually exclusive? I don’t think so! The most authentic speakers I have seen and experienced are also the most charismatic. Often authenticity is dismissed and yet this means that we are not paying attention to the affect it has upon people and in the world. Every human has four endowments – self-awareness, conscience, [...]
As I write this blog, I am in Toronto at the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) national convention – I will be speaking about ‘Authenticity’ from the perspective of a speaker. The following are my working notes as I prepared to speak. I have been a passionate advocate for the power of authentic self-expression [...]
  Geoffrey X Lane is an experienced major bid coach with years of experience as a trainer for public speaking and presentation skills. He’s worked with leaders from a wide variety of organizations, helping them create successful proposals, bids and tenders. Geoffrey creates boardroom credibility through both his personal facilitation style and through successes like being the winning bid bid coach for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Bid Team in Prague.
Many organizations have the requisite technical skill to win a bid, but don’t communicate them well. Geoffrey X Lane can help your experienced team fine-tune the details that transform a good bid proposal into a winning bid presentation. |