The emcee has just called your name. You’ve been introduced as the speaker. In your head, you hear a voice. It whispers, “First impressions count.” You get up from your seat. Take a quick look around … and you see … the audience has shifted its attention to you....
Connect and command the room! If you want to connect with your audience, if you want to be remembered as a dynamic speaker who commands the room, you need to avoid these 9 public speaking mistakes.Mistake #1 - Starting Too Quickly You must give your audience time to...
How many books listed on Amazon talk about ‘lessons in leadership? Not many. Out of the 57,000 ‘leadership books, less than 100 books touch on the topic of ‘lessons.’ Perhaps, we should change that. I recently did a zoom interview with Global Senior Sales Director...
If you are thinking about a career in public speaking know that ‘Every public speaker needs to build resilience’. No exception! When you’re speaking or delivering a presentation, it’s your resilience that’s your ability to bounce back when things don’t go as planned....
Every book on public speaking mentions it. Every trainer and coach in public speaking will tell you. As a speaker, regardless of your topic, you need to get to know your audience. And we do that by asking questions. It is one of the major keys to speaking success....
If you're a speaker, you're a presenter of any kind, I'm sure that you've had your share of evaluation or feedback forms. Some forms are written in such a way that they’re very helpful, asking questions that provide opportunity for change, and growth on the part of...
Recently I interviewed entrepreneur, Iman Aghay, who is a firm believer in the power of storytelling. When I asked him how he manages to leave such a lasting impression with his audiences, he said, “I tell a lot of stories”. He went on to say, “The way people know...
When the seminar leader shouted out, “You need to build confidence in you” to all of us seated in the seminar room, I knew instinctively, he was talking to me.Why Did I Need to Build Confidence? I was one of those people who would turn around a corner at work and take...
We are all born with potential to reach heights that we may only dream of: potential to do, to achieve, to make a difference. Too often these dreams just fade away into the reality of life’s demands. But does it have to be this way? Recently I did a zoom interview...
Have you ever felt you’ve been taken advantage of at work, by your boss, by your co-workers and colleagues? You want to say ‘No’ but just can’t bring yourself to say it. After all they say such wonderful things about you. - You’re such fun to work with …- You are so...
I was reading a story about when Oprah was a small child. She was watching her grandmother boil clothes ‘in a big cast-iron pot in the yard.” Then, her grandmother would pull the steaming clothes out of the pot and hang them on the clothes line to dry. Oprah remembers...
‘Ditch the Elevator Pitch’. In her May, 2012 article in Forbes, Jacquelyn Smith staff writer says, “… ditch the pitch… It basically describes what sales people used to do – throw information at prospects hoping to sell a service or product before the buyer could hang...