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372 Articles match "Speaking Techniques","Techniques"
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Friday, March 19, 2010
But Lisa," you say, "I thought preparation was the holy grail of successful public speaking!" Tags: Preparation Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies Analogie 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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Monday, March 15, 2010
Tags: Preparation Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies Public Speaking Anxiety The Business of Speaking Taking Risks Entertainer In the documentary, "Comedian," Jerry Seinfeld has decided to scrap all his previous material from decades of success as a standup comedian and TV star, and start over with a new standup act. This film shows the challenges of this monumentally successful performer as he makes his rounds from comedy club to comedy club, trying out first five minutes of material, then ten, then twenty, attempting to work his way up to a full hour of material
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
I heard this from several audience members recently who heard a famous politician speak. Tags: Pet Peeves Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies Curse of Knowledg For about a month, I had been hearing from one reader or another that they couldn't access this blog due to a malware warning. The IT people I talked to suggested that the problem might be on the users' computers or that there was actually a bad link on my blog.
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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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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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Friday, July 24, 2009
Watch Olivia Mitchell speak on how to incorporate Twitter into your presentations! Tags: Technology Speakers Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies PresentationCampL The first PresentationCampLA video has been posted! I hope to get all the videos on the PresentationCampLA site, so stay tuned.
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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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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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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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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tags: Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies Public Speaking Anxiet When I was in third grade, I took third place in the school spelling bee, behind a fifth grader and a sixth grader. I was wearing my favorite pink dress with buttons down the front, and my groovy white go-go boots.
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