Walk in your audience’s footsteps before you speak or present to them. Spend a day in their lives. Speak to someone who knows about their lives, their problems, their goals and ambitions. Learn about what your audience is going through. An example of this is with speech pathology students, when they are training how to treat people who stutter. Several …
Is it a stumbling block or a building block? Part of being successful in life and achieving our goals and potential relates to having a positive mind set. This is the way that we see things that happen to us or come across our paths to block us or interfere with what we want to do. Luckily we can choose …
Congruency when presenting is very important, as it adds to your credibility, your connection and your competence as a speaker. Congruency when presenting simple means that all aspects of your communication, your message and what you are saying, line up. Your body language, gestures and nonverbal communication line up with what you are saying. Your passion and your energy are …
One of the things that can sometimes happen when speaking, especially when sharing our stories and our journeys is that we can become emotional. Now emotions, passion and feelings are important and help us engage and connect with the audience, but we don’t want to become too emotional and have to leave the stage or be unable to complete our …
We all know about communication styles and the passive – assertive – aggressive – and passive aggressive communication types. But do we know how to be assertive and do we recognise where we fit on the communication continuum in different conversations. Violet Dhu, my wife, is an expert on assertive communication and difficult conversations and has some resources on her …
Your body language and non-verbal communication determines largely how people perceive you. They say that women have formed an opinion of you within 4 seconds and men have formed an opinion of you within 7 seconds. Malcolm Gladwell in his book “What The Dog Saw” reports that job interview panels form an opinion within 15 seconds of the interview. Regardless, …
