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As a public speaking coach and trainer many people ask me if I can fix their fear, make them a better presenter and a more confident and effective speaker. They do a coaching package, or attend a workshop and then they think they are fixed. When I follow up 6 months later many people state that they have not had …
Charles Garfield used to coach the Russian Olympic weight-lifting team. He noticed that when the team members had lifted as much as they could, to the point of exhaustion, they would invariably grimace and frown and screw up their faces at the painful effort. In an experiment, he encouraged the weight lifters to smile when they got to that point …
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 …
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 …
Tom Peters said “You shouldn’t give a public speech unless you want to make something happen”. Before you give a speech, you really need to define what you want or expect to achieve in the talk. This is really the core reason or the purpose of your talk, which can be any or a combination of the following: • To …
Many speakers and presenters are not sure what to do with their hands when they are not gesturing. Sure you need to move your hands effectively and have an expansive gestural vocabulary, but what do you do when you are not gesturing, those quiet times, those times when the audience is speaking or asking questions. There are 3 recommended resting …
