by Dorothea Hendriks | Jan 16, 2012 | Blog
Defining success is like nailing jelly to a tree, but success characteristics … now that is a different story. Every New Year I think about what speaking for success will look like for me in the months ahead: the opportunities, the experiences, the people....
by Dorothea Hendriks | Dec 10, 2011 | Blog
Speaking notes are an important tool when making a speech or presentation; they organize the flow of the topic, keep you on track and serve as cheat sheets for salient points such as statistics. But what to do with those cumbersome notes? Whether you are a newly...
by Dorothea Hendriks | Nov 28, 2011 | Blog
After filling out the application form, then holding my breath through the lengthy interview, I received the call. I had been chosen as one of the two impact speakers for the United Way Lower Mainland fund raising campaign. What could be better than this? Going into...
by Dorothea Hendriks | Nov 26, 2011 | Blog
Distractions! They are everywhere, and can drive us on the road to exasperation, especially when we are sitting in the audience and find that we seriously have to work at tuning both ears to what the speaker is saying. All too often, something quite unrelated comes in...
by Dorothea Hendriks | Jun 20, 2011 | Blog
For many of us, we open our mouth, words come out; people listen. It all seems so straight forward most of the time. A while back, over a cup of coffee, a friend asked, ‘Do I sound boring to you?” “What are you talking about?” I said, as I grabbed a handful of...
