Linda Victoria503808958 Duarte

12 mai 2020

These days, we’re all inundated with virtual presenters. It seems every week we’re sitting through more and more virtual presentations. Think of how many you’ve sat through in the last month. Every one of those presenters wants to communicate something important. ​They’re hoping to get results fr...

05 mai 2020

While our new virtual world has changed the way we do business, it hasn’t stopped the creative wheel. Many of us are still tasked with solving creative challenges for ourselves, our clients, and customers. From creating a new business model, to naming a new product, to finding ways to make your e...

28 avril 2020

At the end of February, I found out that an event I was looking forward to—Creative South—was getting postponed, along with countless others. Not even a day later, Andrew Hochradel, the emcee of the event, came up with an idea for a free, online creative conference. Let’s just say it was well rec...

27 avril 2020

We’ve all been there. Receiving a virtual pitch from a backlit silhouette or straining to understand the garbled audio of a co-worker. You may have been the culprit yourself once or twice (I know I have been). Thankfully, we are all more forgiving of these faux pas because we’ve all been thrust i...

20 avril 2020

Data helps organizations gain valuable insights into customers, employees, products and markets, but there is a limit to what databases and charts can do on their own. Answers to organizational problems or opportunities don’t just organically spring from algorithms—they need communicators to tran...

18 avril 2020

Leading effective meetings is hard enough and suddenly, we all have to be just as effective without the benefits of meeting in person. That means connecting with people, delivering a point of view, facilitating discussion, and charging toward a new action or result by the end of your meeting—all ...

14 avril 2020

Leila Janah was a powerful speaker who could capture and hold the attention of her audience. During speeches and while writing on her blog, she’d often share her immigrant story and the events in her life that made her to want to change the world. Unfortunately, the world lost Leila Janah early i...

07 avril 2020

When preparing to communicate data to a specific type of decision-maker, you need to think through who will be involved in its approval and tailor your approach to appeal to each of them. Consider carefully what different audiences need to hear, and how they want to hear it. Whenever your audienc...

03 avril 2020

Here at Duarte, we not only teach communication skills, we teach people how to present themselves. In this new virtual world, we have to consider how we appear and communicate virtually—like on Zoom meetings—and what that means for how our audience perceives our brand. By now you’ve probably seen...

31 mars 2020

Here’s an uncomfortable truth: Leaders don’t always know what changes are around the corner. Good or bad, change breeds uncertainty, and uncertainty can breed fear—especially when it will affect employees, whose jobs hang in the balance, and customers, who depend on a product or service. Instead ...