Focus on Audience’s Needs, Not Your Own

Focus on Audience’s Needs, Not Your Own

Know your audience and capture their attention. It sounds simple, but how do you put it into action? Sometimes the best way to improve your skills, is to understand how NOT to do it. Here is an example: One of BRODY’s clients is a major pharmaceutical firm that throws...
Facilitative Presentations Engage Audiences

Facilitative Presentations Engage Audiences

In many situations, audiences are no longer content to sit and listen to you talk—they want to be part of the discussion. Effective presenters recognize and take advantage of this by actively encouraging audience participation. By doing so you can: Achieve a richer...
The Coaching Process

The Coaching Process

To have successful coaching conversations, you’ll want to think about how you will prepare, promote dialogue during the meeting, and reinforce the coaching post-meeting. Coaching is a process, not an event! 1. Prepare for the Coaching Conversation Begin with the End...
Implement a Coaching Culture

Implement a Coaching Culture

In our previous blog, Coaching Your Team to Success, we looked at the benefits of coaching, overcoming obstacles to coaching, and using the GROW model to guide coaching conversations. Once you are ready to implement a coaching culture, your first step will be getting...