First the secret: Treat the interview -- and preparation for it -- as if it were a presentation and not an interview. Know which main messages you want to offer your audience (the interviewer) about the topic (you) and clearly state them, just as you would in a presentation. Here's how to...
In my last blog post -- the first in a two-part series on banishing corporate buzzwords from memos, emails, presentations and meetings -- I acknowledged that recognizing the jargon is sometimes hard.
Why? Because we've heard the say-nothing shortcuts...
After repeated use, corporate buzzwords and jargon have a way of starting to sound like normal words -- the kind of words that regular folks use in every day conversation. Except, they're not. These semantic shortcuts explain nothing, but they sound like they might. Corporate-speak is easier, but far less effective,...
Say you're on deadline with a proposal, report or other written piece and you're truly stuck.
What to say next? How to say it? And where can you turn to get words and ideas flowing again?
Try taking a break from...