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397 Articles match "Speaking","Strategy","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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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 of public 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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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
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
of this series I went over a number of tips and tactics to deal with the fear of public speaking. Today will focus 0n a few of my favorite breathing techniques to use prior to presenting or giving a speech:
This is awesome for the few minutes before you are actually going to be speaking. In Pt. I
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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
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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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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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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, 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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Friday, May 1, 2009
chrisbrogan.com Home About Speaking Rockstars Newsletters Contact Best Of How to Start Speaking at Events December 8, 2008 · Comments One day, I wasn’t a speaker at conferences, and then I was. If you’re interested in speaking at events, I have some ideas on how you might get that going. And then a little while later, I was a paid speaker. And now, I’m a decently paid speaker.
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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, 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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