Welcome to my radically honest review of the 02022. You can find out what happened in the past eight years at these links: 02014, 02015,...
02022: Matteo’s Radically Honest Review
read more
BLOG
Why Learning & Development Professionals Must Embrace Business Storytelling Today
In a rapidly changing business landscape, learning and development professionals must actively ensure that their organizations can adapt and evolve. The science of storytelling can be a powerful tool in the hands of business people, as it empowers them to transcend the confines and tropes typical of business speak and to start breaking boundaries with a powerful narrative to support their message.
In-Person Team Building Events During And After Covid
By Tommaso Lana and Matteo Cassese Social and emotional learning is at the core of a modern, equitable and inclusive society. For the past...
02021 My Year In Review
02021 has been a surprisingly great year for me, one of the best of my life. Until they learn about semantic SEO (or read this review), I need to do my best to conquer the highest value keywords that can bring business to my website.
My Coming Out Matters To You
I came out as gay for the first time in 1991 to my best friends in Rome, Italy, when I was 14. As of today, in 2021, I have been coming...
How to Start a Presentation: Engage your Audience from the First Slide to the Last
I've been there: your presentation is due soon. Probably your boss is awaiting an update on an important project. Maybe your client is...
Marketing Audit – The Definitive Guide (includes how-to and example template)
I will concentrate specifically on digital marketing audits and tell you everything I know. A marketing audit is a great opportunity to provide learning opportunities to your client, for instance, by organizing workshops, coaching and training classes in the areas that require improvement.
The Truth About Presentation & Public Speaking Coaching
Today, I want to take you behind the scenes, behind the closed doors where executive presentation and public speaking coaching happens....
02020 My Year In Review
Every year since 02014, I’ve published an honest and public review of the year. A certain degree of fear is vital (wear your mask, wash your hands, avoid indoor spaces, stay away from crowds), worrying about your loved ones is caring, but too much worry can also be paralyzing, In early March, as the pandemic was still scarcely understood in Europe, I was filled with anger: why were we doing nothing?
Open Training: How To Teach and Learn Anything Together With Your Clients
Open Training is a way to deliver training experiences for my clients, creating personalized training just for them. In this process, we get to know each other, run experiments, and solve real business problems. The outcome is better group dynamics, higher individual satisfaction, and immediate business results.
Customized Training: How My Customers Taught Me To Stop Shouting
The trait most likely to bring you success in marketing is listening. Lucky me… My customers heard: “Matteo is open to be our coach, to be on our side, to help us overcome the marketing, communication, and productivity issues we are facing right now.”
20 Virtual Presentation Tips in Under 7 Minutes
Zoom-fatigue: spending time communicating in front of screens can be stressful. But it gets easier the more you feel confident, in control...
The Best Free Presentation Skills Training Resources Online (Definitive 2020 Guide)
We all struggle when it comes to presentations. Communicating clearly is generally a challenge. And presentations add to this daily...
Every presentation is about change. Learn how to transform your audience.
"Every presentation worth doing has just one purpose. To make a change happen." Seth Godin In my courses I use a lot of icons and this is...
Sales Presentation Training: How to Transform a Dry Sales Presentation Into a Rich Sales Conversation
Have you ever sold anything while presenting? I'm serious. You are on stage, the spotlight is on you, you are talking. Can your client buy...
02019: My Year in Review
This article is an exercise in openness. It's not (merely) a way for me to show off what I achieved in 02019. And you're not supposed to...
Business Storytelling: The Definitive Guide (bonus inside)
In this article you will learn everything you need to know about Business Storytelling. The science of storytelling can be a powerful tool in the hands of business people, as it empowers them to transcend the confines and tropes typical of business speak, and to start breaking boundaries with a powerful narrative to support their message.
How To Setup Your Office, Desk and Computer For Maximum Productivity
Today I would like to share my very own productivity routine. I've refined it by reading about other people's working habits and I'm...
THEMES
Jason Barnard
Andrea Volpini
Social
The term social refers to a characteristic of living organisms as applied to populations of humans and other animals. It always refers to...
employee
Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract, one being the employer and the other being the employee.
comfort zone
The comfort zone is a psychological state in which a person feels familiar, at ease, in control, and experiences low anxiety. A person in...
collaborative
Collaboration is working with others to do a task and to achieve shared goals. It is a recursive process where two or more people or...
relationships
An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association or acquaintance between two or more people that may range in...
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in...
Hero’s Journey
Joseph Campbell's monomyth, or the hero's journey, is a basic pattern that its proponents argue is found in many narratives from around...
soft skills
Soft skills is a term often associated with a person's "EQ" (Emotional Intelligence Quotient), the cluster of personality traits, social...
data
Data ( , , or ) is a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables; restated, pieces of data are individual pieces of...
workshop
classroom training courses, of short duration, for training on specific topics with a typical duration of 1 day
team-building
Team building is the use of different types of team interventions that are aimed at enhancing social relations and clarifying team...
students
A student (also pupil) is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term (or its cognate...
stage
In theatre or performance arts, the stage (sometimes referred to as the deck in stagecraft) is a designated space for the performance of...
facial expressions
A facial expression is one or more motions or positions of the muscles beneath the skin of the face. These movements convey the emotional...
Sales Pitch
In selling technique, a sales presentation (or sales pitch) is a line of talk that attempts to persuade someone or something, with a...
Coaching
Coaching is training or development in which a person called a "coach" supports a learner in achieving a specific personal or professional...