English Speaking Skills: What is Best Number of Words in Sentences?
English Speaking Skills: What is Best Number of Words in Sentences? English communication and writing. Did you ever wonder what length of sentences are best for communicating information in writing? Here is one angle of view on that question. I investigated newspapers for answers because they are intended for a large variety of readers. Readers […]
What to do With Your Hands During a Presentation
What to do With Your Hands During a Presentation When you begin, your hands should hang relaxed by your side. Best is to gesture with one hand at a time. Hand and arm movements can be descriptive and emphatic. Rerun from Feb 16, 2016
English Speaking Skills: Come and Get It: Memorable Colloquial Phrases From All Sections of Newspapers
English Speaking Skills: Come and Get It: Memorable Colloquial Phrases From All Sections of Newspapers Don’t you love it when something you enjoy has an additional benefit? It’s like “Buy one, get one free” or BOGO as our media likes to call it. I love to read newspapers. Now colloquial phrases leap out at me […]
What to do With the Energy and Adrenaline When Presenting
What to do With the Energy and Adrenaline When Presenting Energy is awesome during a presentation. Use that energy by: Gesturing for emphasis Gesture for excitement Rerun from Feb 8, 2016
English Speaking Skills: For Sure Current Colloquial Phrases
English Speaking Skills: For Sure Current Colloquial Phrases Students have asked me every year for some current good colloquial phrases. I haven’t been able to provide them easily. Getting them from current popular media of movies and television shows would mean hours of viewing with the specific purpose of directly listening for them and writing […]
Benefits of Focusing on One Person at a Time in the Audience
Benefits of Focusing on One Person at a Time in the Audience Great benefits come when you focus your eyes on one person at a time: You control your nervousness by getting back to doing what you do best – talking one-to-one You communicate your connection and rapport to people Helps you read your audience […]
English Speaking Skills: Finally! An Awesome Way to Find Excellent Colloquial Phrases
English Speaking Skills: Finally! An Awesome Way to Find Excellent Colloquial Phrases How to make your English speech – spoken or written—more interesting? It’ s easy: Use current colloquial phrases. The problem is knowing which ones to use. Books are written in every decade of the last half-century about colloquialisms and what they mean and […]
Where to Focus Your Eyes When Presenting
Where to Focus Your Eyes When Presenting Focus on one person and one pair of eyes. Remain focused on that one person in the audience until you complete a thought. A thought is not a paragraph, it’s a sentence or a phrase. Usually it is more than five seconds but not as much as fifteen […]
English Speaking Skills: Tips for Spicing up Conversation
English Speaking Skills: Tips for Spicing up Conversation The lovely thing about conversations is that you can add to your skill of making your conversations even more satisfying. Consider this: Borrow an idea from professional speakers and develop a collection of attention-getting small stories or quotes to use in conversations. Gather together these sayings and stories from […]
Complaints- How to Respond
Complaints- How to Respond Top tip: treat a complaint with as much respect as an order, letting customers know you are eager to serve them as to sell them. (Paraphrased from L.E. Frailey, Handbook of Business Letters) Rerun from Jan 4, 2016