Improve your Writing
November 18th, 2020
Twitter and Facebook have a lot to answer for: rampant misinformation, spiralling conspiracy theories, plummeting productivity. (And that’s just in my family!) But I fear social media echo chambers are also undermining our persuasive capacity. It’s so easy to share the stuff we agree with, and condemn the stuff that’s so obviously WRONG, without going […]
read more...4 tips for moving past mere ranting to effective persuasion
Improve your Writing
July 18th, 2018
In the dog days of summer 2017, when many people were at the beach, or glued to the media coverage of Charlottesville’s neo-Nazi march and the shocking response from the leader of the free world, a small posse of women with informed opinions were speaking up to make change. University of Ottawa law prof, Liz […]
read more...9 tips to improve the chances of getting your op ed published
Increase Your Impact as a Speaker and Presenter
April 27th, 2017
Brilliance, without the capacity to communicate it, is wasted. I learned this in grade 10 chemistry from the intellectually-gifted, but communicationally-impaired Mr. Philipps. Sadly, that’s about all I learned (and it wasn’t the lesson he was intending to teach). Although my parents may have been disappointed that I dropped sciences in grade 11, I’ve never […]
read more...Five Steps to Overcoming Public Speaking Nerves
Improve your Writing
June 27th, 2011
What if you don’t have time to write an op ed but one of the issues you care most – and know lots – about is in the news? Write a letter to the editor, instead; you only need to come up with 250 words. (This means, of course, that you’ll have to pick […]
read more...Lessons in persuasion continued…
Improve your Writing
June 27th, 2011
Who wouldn’t like to be a more persuasive communicator? In every aspect of our personal and professional lives – from seducing a beloved or winning a promotion to controlling the TV remote or getting your way at the Air Canada counter – our ability to marshal words into sentences that compel others to think as […]
read more...NY gay marriage bill: persuasion in action
