To be a successful leader, you must enroll others. To enroll others, you must be a persuasive communicator. To be a persuasive communicator, you must be not only comfortable presenting values, ideas and objectives, you must be in command of the presentation skills to do so.
I have been speaking in public to large and small audiences for many years now. And I’ve been fortunate to have employers who, recognizing the importance of polished speaking and presenting skills, have invested in many of their key executives. Once I founded my own company, I spent several years with the National Speaker’s Association. Despite all that experience and …