Marsha's Blog

Would you believe  a 20 minute speech could have real impact on the world?  On your world? Read on.

Now if you’re a lawyer, or you work with lawyers or other professionals, you may think 20 minutes is not long enough to make your point and have impact.

Watch this video to see how Dr. Patricia Kuhl quickly teaches the neuroscience behind how babies learn language.  She uses images, simple graphs, video and non-scientific language. Continue reading “TED Talks Can Teach Lawyers to Get to the Point” »

Training lawyers (or anyone)  by video conference is challenging at best.  Here are 4 things you can do to make any video conference training  for lawyers or clients more engaging and more effective: Continue reading “Tips: Better Lawyer Training via Video Conference” »

Today I spoke at the Professional Development Institute (PDI) in Washington, DC.  My topic was “Training More Lawyers in More Offices with Fewer Resources – Better Video Conference Training.”

The session was packed with enthusiastic professional development folks looking for insight and willing to share their own best practices to leverage technology to train more lawyers. Continue reading “Training More Lawyers With Fewer Resources workshop: Professional Development Institute (PDI)” »

On March 18, 2010 I spoke at the Leadership Institute for Women of Color Attorneys in Law & Business Conference  in Atlanta.  My topic was “Grabbing Them at Hello: How Powerful Women Lawyers Communicate.”

With about 100 women lawyers in attendance, we discussed:

• Learn how to use your innate strengths to connect and make your point. We all know that we are most powerful when we are authentic. Continue reading “How Powerful Women Lawyers Communicate workshop — Leadership Institute for Women of Color Attorneys” »

Marsha Redmon won the 1^st place Award for Training at the 2008 LMA National Conference.  The training project was “How Not to Present” — a business development workshop that used video vignettes to teach different business development skills.  The program was created for Goulston & Storrs in Boston.