Inspiring Executive Speaking Archives

Making Training Stick

Posted on April 3, 2025 - 12:57 am by Ethan Hyers

Many companies invest in training programs that initially seem promising, but over time their impact fades, leaving little lasting value.

In this post, Dean will explore four strategies to ensure that your training investment creates long-term benefits and potentially even drives cultural change within your organization. By implementing these techniques, you can transform your training programs into enduring assets that deliver ongoing value for your company and its employees.

To see how we make our training stick, check out our GROW-it and WIN-it programs.

To Share or Not to Share

Posted on February 7, 2025 - 2:36 am by Ethan Hyers

Leaders face a conundrum: Do I share my personal struggles, or stick to my successes? They want to come across strong, but they sometimes misunderstand the relationship between the perceived threat of vulnerability and the strength that results from actually humbling yourself. Check out Dean’s latest post to hear how he recommends threading that needle.

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Not Confident? Get Mad!

Posted on November 26, 2024 - 5:09 am by Ethan Hyers

The higher up the ladder you go, the more your perspective matters, and the more confident you need to be of your convictions as you present them to your team. In today’s post, Dean explores a particular emotion that can fuel your confidence and inspire your audiences.

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Rhyming Your Way to Better Speaking

Posted on November 14, 2024 - 3:31 am by Ethan Hyers

There’s a poetry to speaking, and you’re no poet. In today’s post, Dean talks about how the practice of rhyming off-stage helps you bring more poetry to your improvisational speaking. The goal isn’t to rhymes in the presentation, but to develop the skill of finding words that combine better to make more elegant articulations as you speak from the heart.

If you’re a leader who wants to bring more charismatic influence and inspiration to your presentations, we can help you here.

To Script, Or Not To Script

Posted on September 5, 2024 - 1:09 am by Ethan Hyers

It’s really not the question. Don’t script. It’s hard to accept this because you want to control the result, and everyone has their opinion about what you should say. Dean has a solution for you: The sweet spot between scripting and winging it.

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Radical Transformation for Presenting Power

Posted on August 20, 2024 - 3:00 pm by Ethan Hyers

Need to become the kind of speaker who can blow the roof off the place, but only have a day to get there? Most skills take months to evolve into, but if you’re a new CEO or a leader transitioning into a place of higher visibility, you might need that to happen faster. How about 1 day to transform your skills? Dean implements Radical Transformation of Speaking Skills and Executive Presence, and wants to help you jump to your next level NOW, with practice techniques to sustain that higher level for years to come.

Click here to take the first step into your executive presence.

The Value of Curiosity

Posted on May 20, 2024 - 10:03 pm by Ethan Hyers

In this constantly changing world that demands ongoing learning, the single most important trait to have as a professional is curiosity. What can you as a leader do to encourage and cultivate curiosity in your team? In today’s post, Pete poses that question and invites you to explore with him.

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