CEO
How to Give Presentation Feedback So Your CEO Will Listen
If a company is a ship, the CEO is the captain, but she’s also the figurehead—the face of the company. As such, she’s constantly under pressure to shape its reputation and standing with key stakeholders, including customers, employees, investors, and community members. And the way the CEO communicates with those stakeholders drives their perceptions of…
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What Can Country Music Teach Us About Public Speaking?
At Quantified Communications, we can’t emphasize practice enough — no matter how big or small the presentation. Last month, we stepped back from public speaking and went in search of a broader perspective. We wanted to find out how top players in other performance-driven fields approach practice, so we reached out to a pro baseball…
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What Can Pro Baseball Teach Us About Public Speaking?
At Quantified Communications, we can’t emphasize practice enough — no matter how big or small the presentation. Last month, we stepped back from public speaking and went in search of a broader perspective. We wanted to find out how top players in other performance-driven fields approach practice, so we reached out to a pro baseball…
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How Much Should You Really Practice? Preparation Habits of Highly Successful Musicians, Athletes, & Speakers
You’ve probably heard the joke: A guy’s lost in New York and he stops an old musician on the street to ask him how to get to Carnegie Hall. Hardly looking up, the musician replies, “Practice.”
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How Much of Our Workdays Do We Spend Communicating?
Think about a typical morning at work. Coffee in hand, you greet your colleagues as you head to your office, where the first thing you do is read through emails, replying to anything urgent. You think through your to-do list for the day, then send off a few more emails delegating certain tasks and requesting…
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What can we learn about leadership communication from famous commencement speeches?
Last commencement season, Business Insider posted a list of the 13 best graduation speeches of all time. While there will always be room for debate on that topic, we felt the list offered a strong collection of truly inspiring speeches — free of the clichés and platitudes we hear so often this time of year.…
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Let’s Be Clear. What can we learn from 3 legendary CEOs’ annual shareholder letters?
At Quantified Communications, we urge clients to focus on clarity in all their executive communications, and annual shareholder letters — notoriously dense documents — are at the top of the list. No matter how crisp the numbers, no matter how good the news, your letter is far less effective if it’s unclear to the investors who…
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A data-driven case for CEOs to participate in earnings calls
Our analysis shows why CEOs are the most effective speakers on earnings calls
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