Chapter 11. Show Time Overview and Nonverbal Delivery Skills
Robert E. Levinson said in an article in Dun's Review, "In a sense, every executive speechmaker is an actor, giving a performance for the edification, entertainment, and approval of a highly specialized audience. Since the delivery is as important as the content, an executive needs a bit of the ham."[1]
A century earlier, Emily Dickinson described a fellow author: "She has the facts, but not the phosphorescence."[2] That could fit many of today's presenters: knowledgeable, thorough—and boring.
Or it could give a simple guide to winning presenters—those with both the facts and the phosphorescence. On lists identifying characteristics of outstanding speakers, certain phrases keep appearing: ...
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