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Friday, March 19, 2010
But Lisa," you say, "I thought preparation was the holy grail of successful public speaking!" Here's the thing: You don't really know how any presentation is going to work until you get in front of an audience. And each audience is different. If you've never made a pie, you might not know this, but overworking the dough for the crust makes a tough chewy texture rather than the light flaky texture we all prefer. If you overmix the dough when you're making, say, scones, the same thing happens.
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Friday, March 19, 2010
I had lunch with a colleague last week and we had a rousing discussion about two different approaches to teaching public speaking and presentation skills.
We teach the techniques, behaviors and skills that are associated with powerful and effective public speaking —and we do it with a proprietary coaching approach that gets great results. She feels that the most important aspect My company, DeFinis Communications , approaches the training process from a skills perspective. Once those fundamentals are in place, our clients get stronger and more confident
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
The audience will see right through you. Have a Conversation - A truly great presentation that engages the audience and is easily and often recalled is one that is a conversation between the presenter and the audience . You're not speaking AT them, you're speaking WITH them. If there's one thing I've learned while engulfed in the world of marketing communications the past few years, it's that you are ALWAYS presenting - especially when it comes to business.
Every interaction you have with prospects, customers, vendors, or even just a random passer-by
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
I did an article years ago on the Ten Commandments of Public
Speaking, Speaking, and it’s time to update it.
shall know that a speech is for the audience, not the speaker.
shall not dump information on the audience; thou shall rather seek to persuade.
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Here goes:
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
How to Change the World A practical blog for impractical people. « The Education of a Late-Adopter Blogger | Main | Addendum to How to Get a Standing Ovation » January 18, 2006 How to Get a Standing Ovation When I started public speaking in about 1986, I was deathly afraid of public speaking--for one thing, working for the division run by Steve Jobs was
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The first draft of the book is done , and to help get there I read over 50 books on public speaking. Dale Carnegie got much of it right 50 years ago in Public Speaking for success (one of the best I read - I’m surprised too). It goes like this: know your audience, be concise and practice. Many popular ones, old and new, as well as books by preachers, teachers, salesmen, infomercial stars, and professors. What did I learn?
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
0160; Lose the Power Point – when you put up Power Point slides you ask the audience to look at 2 – or 3 – things at once: you, your slides, perhaps a printout of your slides. 0160; Talk from the audience’s point of view – a common mistake presenters make is to explain an idea the way they learned it. 0160; But your history is not inherently interesting to an audience. 1. That’s distracting.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
One of the goals of the book is to talk about things going wrong in public speaking. Leave your story of a public speaking disaster! To help get things started, here’s some of my own public speaking disasters:
Someone yelled out that our scores were wrong, which prompted the audience to start yelling and booing Few books ever mention how often things go wrong, even for experienced speakers, and I want to make sure these stories get told.
It can be something that happened to you or something you saw or heard happen to someone else.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Twittering snide, insulting remarks about your fellow committee members while they speak and marking it with #ala09 hash tag to ensure that the widest possible audience sees your comment: REALLY VERY NOT GOOD
No publicly flaming speakers.” 8220;Only tweet what you would stand up and say publicly.” The latest academic research on Twitter and conferences addresses the issue of “snarky tweets” during presentations. What should be the guidelines of what is acceptable and what is not?
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Audiences today expect to have a conversation with speakers, and they crave real connection with successful speakers. 0160; The best way to ensure that these good things happen during your presentations is to involve your audiences throughout. 0160; As the audience shakes itself awake, and starts wondering if it does in fact have any questions, the speaker stands there for what seems like an eternity, then gives up and concludes that no 0160; But that takes some art. 0160; How do you think about it?
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Your audience is there for what you are going to say. That’s because though you may not be comfortable in front of an audience, you can prepare good content.
Its an awful feeling to be standing in front of an audience with a little voice in your head going “I’m waffling. It’s normal to feel nervous about presenting Giving your first presentation or speech is daunting. I’ve worked with many new presenters and here’s the advice that has made the most difference to them.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
What should you know about your audience? think speakers have five opportunities, at minimum, to find out what they need to know about an audience . I always take the time to ask the organizers of any conference, session or meeting at which I'm speaking what I should know about the audience, especially in reference to my topic. If it is relevant to That sea of faces, those nudging/BlackBerry-ing/distracted people, the eager fans, the strangers, your office colleagues. Who are they?
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
0160; Most people use it incorrectly, and it becomes a barrier between speaker and audience. the audience to read along with them? 0160; Or, they go nuts with the animation, swoops, and flying headlines that make audiences dizzy to little purpose. 0160; Or they use cheap-looking clip art that I’ve blogged many times on how NOT to use Power Point. 0160; For example, they create word slides, really speaker notes, with many bullets of text, expecting – what? –
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