by Dave Hill | Sep 23, 2009 | Communication Strategies, Mistakes, Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies
Imagine you are 11 years old in a science laboratory. You are sitting quietly in the back of the room. You and your school friends have stealthily “borrowed” some chemicals from the chemical storage cupboard. In the basin beside you is a small glass jar of...
by Dave Hill | Sep 13, 2009 | Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies
The title of this article and the photo may give the impression of some humorous story about to be told; however, what I am writing about is a very sad day at the corporate office. The setting was an executive conference room. The attendees were a group of corporate...
by Dave Hill | Sep 4, 2009 | Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies
It was July 2002, and I was working in a corporate office as a risk engineer for a chemical corporation. It was a high anxiety time. One of our chemical plants had an accident; a gas turbine generator engine had a catastrophic failure, a multi-million dollar accident....
by Dave Hill | Aug 22, 2009 | Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies
It was July 27th 1989 and I was the chief engineer officer on a cargo ship hundreds of miles from shore. We were travelling between Morocco and France with a full load of oranges. I was sitting in my cabin when the shout of “Fire!” came booming down the corridor...
