“Public speak with passion; Ensure your presentation is passionate; Make sure you let your passion come out”. This is all great advice as passion is one of the keys to public speaking and presentation skills. Without passion a polished and perfect presentation may fall flat and may not connect with your audience. Passion helps you to: 1. Demonstrate that you …
6 Common Non-Verbal Communication Mistakes To Avoid – by Peter Dhu
In public speaking, verbal and non-verbal communications are your primary tools to help you send your message across to the audience. Your hand and eye movements, your facial expressions and the way you stand and walk all carry a significant part of your message. And it is important that our non verbal they do not send the wrong message. Here …
Poise, Presence And Passion
3 Tools To Help You Be More Confident And Effective. The two themes that continue to run through my public speaking coaching and training workshops are, “How can I be more confident” and “How can I be more effective” when I am speaking to a group of people. While other themes around, body language, structure, use of story, being influential …
7 Tips To Ensure Your Presentations Are Not Boring
We have all experienced a presentation that was boring and was slowly putting us to sleep. The speaker was so focused on their content and their script that they forgot that they were speaking to a live audience. Have you ever been that speaker? Have you ever struggled to engage your audience and keep them awake and interested in what …
Non Verbal Communication Strategies To Help You Look More Credible
We all know that we only have 15 seconds to make a good first impression and that first impressions count. We also know that these impressions come mostly from our body language, our voice and the way we look rather than the content and the words we say. As we continue presenting, we can shift the impressions of people and …
The Power Pose
Amy Cuddy from Harvard Business School has written a great article about effective leadership and the link between high levels of testosterone. According to the research out of the Harvard laboratory the best leader’s, both male and female, have high levels of testosterone which is linked to reduced fear and increased capacity to deal with risks and to compete. It …