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Articles by Peter Desberg
A Return to the Office Doesn’t Have to Mean a Return to Boring Presentations
We are finally walking away from Zoom and returning to work in our offices. No more Zoom presentations mean we can welcome back PowerPoint presentations in the conference room. A brief history of PowerPoint: it entered with a bang. We no longer had to watch people write on easels with a marker, write on a whiteboard with an erasable marker, or regress to squeaking with chalk on a backboard.
3 Ways To Manage Pitch Panic
“What happens if I forget key parts of my pitch in the room?” “These executives enjoy tormenting writers and love putting them under pressure.” “I’m a good writer, but I don’t have great social skills...” If you’ve had any of these fear-provoking thoughts, you’ve experienced a fear of negative evaluation. Causes of Pitch Panic range from anxiety that you’ll ruin your pitch, to the idea that you’re pitching to horrible people who won’t grasp your prodigious talents.
How to Pitch Like a Hollywood Pro
Photo by cottonbro from Pexels Today’s post is an excerpt from Pitch Like Hollywood: What You Can Learn from the High-Stakes Film Industry by Peter Desberg and Jeffrey Davis pp. 297-310 (McGraw Hill, February 2022). You’re an actor. You kiss your wife and three-year-old daughter goodbye and push aside your daughter’s toys so you can climb into the minivan. In 20 minutes, you’re going on stage as a homicidal maniac. You’re about to burst into a bedroom with a meat cleaver.
The Bookworm Sez: Deck your bookshelf
Finally — your holiday shopping is DONE.Well, except for…, and for…, and okay, you’re not really done. Everybody, you included, has that one certain person on the gift list who’s hard to buy for and another certain person who’s really fussy, and a Grandma who has everything.
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