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Monday, December 22, 2008
Tags: Training Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies Adult Learning Principle During a session with a client the other day, we talked about the delivery of his company's new employee orientation. He was looking for ways to make his message more clear and to keep his diverse audience's attention through a day-long training. The orientation is typical in its length,
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Tags: Quick Fixes Public Speaking Techniques and Strategie We talk a lot about organizing our content, main points, opening and closing, but we rarely talk about how to get from one segment to the next. How do you handle the spaces in between your points, stories, examples, and exercises? These are your transitions .
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Most of us really hate it when a speaker reads from her PowerPoint slides, but we may not know exactly why (besides the fact that she keeps her back to us the whole time and speaks like a robot). When we read, we are subvocalizing; that is, we are speaking the words in our heads. Tags: Pet Peeves Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies PowerPoin More on PowerPoint . . . Subvocalization means "the act or process of inaudibly articulating speech with the speech organs" .
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Tags: Preparation Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies Public Speaking Anxiety Resource Do you ever feel like an audience member is attacking you when they ask challenging questions during your presentation? Hopefully, your audience doesn't actually try to discredit you or prove you wrong, as a client recently mentioned to me, but sometimes a particular question can provoke a feeling of anger or defensiveness.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
And I'm the first to admit that I hate absolute rules about public speaking. Only speak when you are looking at the audience . Of course, you must look down to find your next idea or point, but don't speak while you're doing it. If someone speaks before you, you might have to make the adjustment at the beginning of your talk, and it's fine to adjust it as you're speaking. Following up on my post about where to put your notes , here's my quick tip about using a lectern: Don't. Okay, that's a little harsh.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
A speech can be more complicated to write and deliver than a presentation - not because it's inherently a more difficult kind of public speaking, but because the speaker perceives it differently. Speak from the heart, not from the head.
...Tags: Tags: Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies Public Speaking Anxiet A speech is usually given at a more formal occasion: a wedding, a banquet, a retirement dinner, a conference keynote. So the speaker starts to think the speech must be very proper and stuffy and eloquent.
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Tags: Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies Openings and Closing I'm working with a client who is scheduled to give a 12-minute industry presentation on a complex topic with lots of stats and data. She also has several great stories to illustrate her topic, activities for interaction with the audience, and good ideas for images for her PowerPoint. But right now,
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Saturday, April 5, 2008
Tags: Public Speaking Techniques and Strategie Since there was such a great response to the post on PowerPoint slides as handouts (and lots of great suggestions -- check out the comments), I thought you'd enjoy this post by Garr Reynolds from Presentation Zen on " slideuments ." Here's an excerpt: "Slides are slides.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Today I gave a short presentation on using stories in public speaking. I went on to talk about why stories are important in public speaking and how to use them, and then wrapped up with the remainder of the fire story (finally!), Tags: Public Speaking Techniques and Strategie A quick "hello" and welcome to new readers who are finding me on Alltop! I
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tags: Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies Fun Stuf Here's a fun video for you from the University of British Columbia (finally figured out who the heck UBC is) via Rowan Manahan , promoting their new student speaker series modeled on TED . If you can't see the video, click here to view it on YouTube.
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