

PowerSpeaking Podcast
Carrie Beckstrom
Join Carrie Beckstrom, CEO, PowerSpeaking, Inc. every month to discuss topics that will help you become a more powerful presenter and communicator. We believe that everyone's voice deserves to be heard!
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Oct 18, 2024 • 56min
Level Up Your Facilitation Skills!
In this episode, we share strategies to help you successfully facilitate a dialogue during a presentation or talk, in meetings, or in any situation where you need to foster an inclusive, efficient, productive discussion.Panelists Include:Tara Bergen: PowerSpeaking Facilitator and CoachMike Sweeney: Executive and Team Coach, Chief Strategy Officer, RallyBright

Sep 20, 2024 • 59min
Elevate Your Talk With Powerful Visuals
In this episode, we share strategies and practices to help you create slides and visual aids that support your main message, illustrate key points, clarify complex concepts, and more!Watch the video recording HEREPanelists Include: Michael Baldwin: Founder and CEO, Michael Baldwin Inc.Hala Hachem: Product DesignerRebecca Morgan: International Speaker and Consultant

Aug 16, 2024 • 56min
Make Storytelling Your Power Skill!
Join CEO Carrie Beckstrom and panelists to learn strategies and practices to help you learn the art and science of storytelling that engages, illuminates, and moves people to action.Panelists Include:Karin Hurt: CEO, Let’s Grow LeadersLaura Nespoli: Strategic Storyteller & Public Speaker

Jul 24, 2024 • 1h 1min
Engage Your Audience With a Delivery Style That Connects
Join CEO Carrie Beckstrom and panelists to learn strategies and practices to help you cultivate an authentic, engaging, and effective delivery style.Panelists Include:Yolanda Tate: Technical Discovery Lead, Accenture Federal Services and Principal, Elevate 2 Wellness, LLCBill Treasurer: Chief Encouragement Officer, Giant Leap Consulting, Inc.

Jun 21, 2024 • 56min
Less is More: Learn How to Be More Concise!
Join CEO Carrie Beckstrom and panelists to learn strategies and practices to help you be more succinct and clear in presentations, talks—and in general!Panelists Include:David Binder: Master Facilitator and Coach, PowerSpeaking, Inc.Stephanie Moore: Master Facilitator and Coach, PowerSpeaking, Inc.

May 24, 2024 • 57min
Master the Art of Q&A
In this episode we’ll explore how to manage question-and-answer sessions like a pro and deal effectively with challenging audience members.Panelists include:Sharon Black: President of Strategic Accounts, Robert HalfDan Molloy: Communications Manager, Concussion Legacy Foundationand Amy Furber: Master Facilitator and Coach, PowerSpeakingRobert Half Insights: https://www.roberthalf.com/us/en/insightsConcussion Legacy Foundation: https://concussionfoundation.org/CLF Helpline: https://concussionfoundation.org/helplineWatch the next episode LIVE!: https://www.powerspeaking.com/liveCheck Out PowerSpeaking’s Range of Programs: https://www.powerspeaking.com/training-programs

Apr 19, 2024 • 50min
Best-Practice Crisis Communication
In this episode PowerSpeaking, inc. CEO Carrie Beckstrom and panelists explore how communication plays a vital role in responding to crises, adapting to disruptive change, and enabling employees to thrive through the challenges.Panelists Include: Curtis Kellogg: Strategic Communications ProfessionalStaci Slaughter: Business and Strategic Communications Advisor

Mar 22, 2024 • 58min
Spontaneous Communication!
Join us for a fireside chat between Matt Abrahams (author, “Think Faster, Talk Smarter”) and CEO Carrie Beckstrom. You’ll learn proven strategies to communicate like a pro when you’re on the spot in meetings, in front of an audience, and more.Panelists Include:Matt Abrahams: Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and author of “Think Faster, Talk Smarter.”

Feb 16, 2024 • 58min
Communication Strategies That Foster Creativity
Do you create an environment for your team that sparks creativity and innovation? Do they feel free to experiment—and yes—fail? Do you know how to walk the fine line of giving needed direction yet letting them spread their wings?Join us for a lively, enlightening discussion about communication strategies that spark and support creativity among teams.Panelists Include:Dawn Bryan: Senior Vice President of Global Practice, The Kaleidoscope GroupSteve Kowalski, Ph.D.: Global Product Development, GenentechAuthor, “Creative Together: Sparking Innovation in the New World of Work”

Jan 26, 2024 • 55min
From Boring to Brilliant: Powerful Openings!
What you say and do in the first minute (sometimes seconds!) of a presentation or talk will either engage or disengage your audience.Do you know how to craft an opening that resonates and makes people want to hear what comes next?In this Live! conversation we’ll talk about how to create and deliver memorable openings that help you make a greater impact.Panelists Include:Josh Marx: Senior Program Manager, Leadership Development at Sony Interactive EntertainmentSarah Palmer: Master Facilitator and Coach at PowerSpeaking