No matter what department you are working in; marketing, sales, IT, customer service, or another department, chances are you will have to give a presentation at some point in your career. Regardless of the presentation topic, you need to connect with the audience. Here are some tips for giving amazing presentations: Make sure the structure [...]
Tell me a story We all tell stories, all the time, about what went on at the weekend, first date, hockey game, in fact we use stories all the time to convey context, meaning and our reaction to them. Stories and the way we tell them provide insights into our individual and cultural values. In [...]
Did President Obama waste his time of ‘inspiration’? Is he now acting out of desperation? After his election as President, Barack Obama had the opportunity use his ‘inspiration’ influence to continue to communicate his model of “US Health Care Reform,” a major election promise. What happened? I don’t know, however he did not continue to [...]
We have a complex relationship with change. On the on the one hand we desire it and it is demanded of us, on the other we resist it and detest it. If as leaders and communicators we want to motivate change in our organizations or in our society we need to look at it with [...]
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t you’re right” Henry Ford Some of the most powerful public speakers I know started out with the most fear. When I am coaching my clients I get them to focus on these four beliefs: they significantly reduce anxiety over public speaking and energizes them to a [...]
His exceptional storytelling ability is a very powerful way of conveying information, feelings, experience and using them persuade the listener to his point of view, less like a speech and much more intimate. John McCain is not an orator, especially when compared to Barack Obama. His greatest strength is his ability to weave together a [...]
Welcome to my new website and newsletter format. I hope you like the result of the collaboration and the hard work of us all here at The Leader’s Advantage. These changes were prompted by some very astute observations by several readers of the newsletter and new clients. I have had a website since 1994 and [...]
  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. |