Have You Noticed This Wisdom in North American Media Stories?
SPEECH TIP ON WEBSITE FOR TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 2020 The speech tip for today, Tuesday, September 29, 2020, is a summary of wisdom prevalent in media these last several years. Well… just a preliminary summary. Just a bit and not all. For example pieces of this wisdom you will find here—the best seller in 2019, […]
Presentation Time of Day: Pitfalls & How to Prevent the Bad (English Communication Skills)
Blog 182 for Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020 – Title: Presentation Time of Day- Pitfalls and How to Prevent the Bad (English Communication Skills) (rwfrb660602014) These are COVID-19 times for now and for a while to come. Some say that this while to come will be lengthy in some sort. Some say COVID-19 just speeded up […]
Do You Know How to Prevent Speaking Mistakes?
Date of Blog, Thursday, July 16, 2020 Title: Do You Know How to Prevent Speaking Mistakes? Do you know how to prevent speech mistakes? When you realize a difficult word to pronounce is coming up, then slow down and say that word letter by letter, syllable by syllable. Say each sound CAREFULLY. This is exactly […]
How Can You Make Your Speaking and Writing to Be Easy to Understand
Here is a list of valuable auxiliary verbs. Auxiliary are also called “helping” verbs because they go with other verbs. This speech tip and blog works on the principle that the more natural and idiomatic or daily life English gets, the more it expresses ideas by auxiliary verbs. For example, read this passage from an […]
How Do You Keep It Simple
“How do you keep it simple?” It has been said many times and many ways. “If you start to analyze what style is, the only possible general rule is that the reader must be able to understand what the writer says: and the surest way to do that is simplicity.” The same goes for English […]
Conclusion for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning
Conclusion for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning The natural tendency of human beings is to: Justify on facts, but buy on feeling Justify with business reasons, but buy for personal reasons Justify with logic, but buy on emotion Rerun from June 05, 2017
Public Speaking: “You” – Oriented Statements
Public Speaking: “You”- Oriented Statements If you want to connect with listeners during a presentation, don’t focus so much on yourself. Find ways to address others’ needs. Tip: Involve your listeners by using more “you”-oriented lines. “You know from your own experience that _________.” “You’ll be relieved to learn ______________________.” “You can benefit if you […]
Stand Up and Use Visual Aids!
Stand Up and Use Visual Aids! People who stand up and use visual aids are perceived as: -more professional -more persuasive -more credible -more interesting -and better prepared Rerun from Feb 3, 2014 and April 24, 2017
Grab Audience Attention with Shocker Sentence
Grab Audience Attention with Shocker Sentence Use this very effective way to get attention of an audience, especially at a luncheon. Make a statement that surprises, startles, or challenges them. Example: “The organization is going to change in ways you can hardly imagine over the next six months.” Here are the three rules to make […]
How to Tell a Story
How to Tell a Story Start at a point in time. Remember, the most memorable stories in any culture start with some variation of “once upon a time” the same way a fairy tale begins. Don’t explain the story. Re-create it the way it happened. Use dialogue. Add rich detail so the audience sees what […]