When Going Green Means Going REALLY FAST!
My wife, Robin, asked me, “What do you want to do for your 50th birthday?”  I figured, “Hey – this is my 50th.  It’s a milestone number.  I am going to go for it and ask for what I really want.” “I want to drive a Tesla.” I have been a fan essentially since the car was first announced.  I have read about it in Wired

Be the Duck: The Key to Calm
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Robert Graham of GrahamComm. January 10, 2007: Apple CEO Steve Jobs was rolling out the iPhone at MacWorld. It was an event that, as he correctly predicted, would “reinvent the phone.” A third of the way through his keynote, however, his slides froze. He tried h

Last Public Workshops of the Year
Once a quarter The Henderson Group holds a "By Invitation Only" Art of Presentation workshop in San Francisco, led by our VP of Services, Terry Gault.  The last of 2009 will be held Oct. 5-6, 2009.  Using interactive methods, rather than lectured instruct

Presentation Style: What if …?
Konstantin Stanislavski, the famous Russian director and co-founder of the Moscow Art Theater, was a major force in the arts of theater and film.  No one since Shakespeare has had a stronger impact on the theater. Stanislavski devised a simple technique to help actors overcome the artificiality of the theater.  By this I mean that when you are acting on a theater set, you are not in a real space – it’s a representation of a

The Importance of Empathy
This is compelling evidence that empathy is most important when engaged in communication with others.  It speaks specifically to the importance of empathy when practicing Empathic Paraphrasing or Interchangable Empathy technique in our Dialogue,