One of the tools that I teach to help people be more confident and less nervous when public speaking is the “Anxiety Reality Check”. It simply means that whatever is happening for you as you are standing speaking before an audience – the sweaty palms, quiver in your voice, shaky hands, fast pulse, racing mind – the audience only sees …
In 1933 Franklin D Roosevelt said “The only thing that we have to fear is fear itself”, when he was talking about the growth of communism across the world. Susan Jeffers is famous for her book Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway ® and teaches that the only way to overcome a fear of something in your life is …
I have just read the book called “The Power Of Habit” by Charles Duhigg and it is both an enlightening and confirming read. For a long time I have been speaking and writing about the importance of habits in becoming more confident and effective as a public speaker. I have also spoken about the need to get in the habit …
Honesty is the number one trait that people look for and admire in their leaders. Leadership experts Kouzes and Posner, regularly run surveys on the characteristics that employees value most in their leaders and what makes them an “admired leader”. Honesty has come out as the number one characteristic time and time again, exceeding foresight, inspiration, competence and intelligence. So …
I often talk about and write about the power of silence and the value of a pause in public speaking and presentation skills. The silence allows you to breath, it allows the audience time to take in and digest what you have said, it allows you time to recover if your mind goes blank, it demonstrates calmness and confidence, and …
In a recent Western Australian (WA) business leaders forum, fear of failure was established as one of the worst enemies in WA Business. Fear of failure was preventing innovation and causing WA organisations to fall behind the rest of the world. They found that WA businesses had been going so well that they simply remained doing the same thing, neglecting …
