In this video, produced by the Association for Talent Development (ATD), Greg Owen-Boger, Turpin's VP, encourages you to embrace lecture.

Some time back, Dale and I were the guest speakers on a webinar. The topic was about how we’ve redefined business presentations as Orderly Conversations. We were talking about the use of eye contact and pausing in order to get...

As a presenter, when you are engaged in the conversation, you are connected to your thoughts and externally focused on the people you are speaking with.

  Have you ever attended a training event at work that began with the trainer delivering a set of ground rules for the class? If the answer is yes, the rules probably sounded like this.

In our business presentation workshops, we sometimes do an exercise in which we stretch the length of a pause—way beyond what would ever be comfortable or necessary—in order to show our learners how pausing helps eliminate a...