by Rachel Beohm | Conversation, Leadership, Nonverbal Communication, Presentation Skills, Presenting to a Group, Receptivity
How to Tell an Engaging Story Summertime. What childhood memories does that word conjure up for you? Ice cream? Splashing in a pool? Camping? I remember Grandma and Granddad’s summertime visits. Every year they flew over from England. We would save up our...
by Rachel Beohm | Conversation, Gestures & Hand Position, Leadership, Nonverbal Communication, Nonverbal Skills, Pausing, Presentation Skills, Presenting to a Group, Promotions & Interviews
The Power of the Pause My five-year-old burst through the door one day, calling out, “Guess what, Mama! GUESS WHAT we found in the backyard!!!!” “What?” I asked. But she refused to say. “What is it?” Again, she didn’t answer. She covered her mouth and ran back...
by Rachel Beohm | Confidence, Emotions, Habits, Nonverbal Communication, Pausing, Posture & Body Position, Promotions & Interviews
Be Calm & Confident on the Phone Phone interviews are not an “easy” version of in-person interviews. Sometimes they create even more anxiety than a face-to-face meeting. In this article that I wrote for the Jobscan blog, I shared ways to prepare...
by Rachel Beohm | Emotions, Nonverbal Communication, Presence, Presentation Skills, Presenting to a Group, Receptivity, Word Choice
3 Ways to Fascinate Your Audience Awhile back, my family and I visited the middle-of-nowhere podunk town of Goldendale, WA and its observatory. The girls got to reposition the telescope, we looked at the sun (through filters, of course) and Sirius, and then...
