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Learn to be more confident as a speaker and presenter. Confidence is an essential part of public speaking and engaging an audience and getting your message across. Confidence shows the audience that you know what you are talking about, you are sure of your information and you believe that what you are saying is important to them, not just yourself. …
One of the rules that I lay out before each of my public speaking workshops is that “today there are no mistakes – just lessons”. And of course what I mean is that no matter what happens when you stand up in front of the group to speak, it is not a mistake, rather it is a learning experience, a …
There are lots of words and phrases that we use when speaking that are simply not required and frankly can become quite distracting. The classics of course are the uhm’s and the ah’s. These are sometimes extended by adding “and uhm or so ah”. Other filler words included actually, obviously, you know, etc etc, like and OK then. When you …
Ellen Langer is a psychologist who has researched, written and had great impact in the area of mindfulness. Her work has demonstrated the profound impact of being more mindful and how increasing our own mindful behavior can result in increased health, wellbeing, confidence and competence. She is famous for saying “Our limits are of our own making”. In relation to …
Assertive communication is one of the keys to being a confident and effective presenter. Assertive communication boosts your self-esteem and confidence and allows you to be more effective in meetings, presentations and general public speaking situations. It enables you to get more of what you want out of life. Your relationships are more likely to be constructive and other people …
I have just been reading an on-line article on how to create your self improvement plan and noticed that the 5 step process applies similarly to a plan that you can use to improve your public speaking and presentation skills. The full article, written by Eduard Ezeanu can be found at http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-create-your-self-improvement-plan/ Basically the steps are: 1 Start by recognising the limits. …
