Public Speaking: Get Rid of Your Confusion Now- Graphs and Charts
Public Speaking: Get Rid of Your Confusion Now- Graphs and Charts When thinking about public speaking, keep it simple in your head. Keep anchored to the oh-so-simple idea of communication. Just remember that presentations and all forms of public speaking, whether informal for a few people or formal in a room of 100 or […]
Public Speaking: Living Color- Get the Best for Your Slides
Public Speaking: Living Color- Get the Best for Your Slides The fun of communicating, for you the presenter to any number of people, is to use our wonderful earthly tools to spark the listener/viewer. Color has an amazing ability to stimulate the senses. You’ve seen a great number of presentations with power point or […]
Public Speaking: Slides: What the Experts Know About the Print
Public Speaking: Slides: What the Experts Know About the Print You know, confidence is much more fun than uncertainty. There are so very many choices for the printed words on Power Point or other slides. How is a person to know which features are best? Yay, yay. You don’t have to guess. Experts at […]
Public Speaking: Slides: How to Make the 30 Seconds Viewing Time Work
Public Speaking: Slides: How to Make the 30 Seconds Viewing Time Work Keep the key principle in mind—presentations are merely another form of communication. Visual aids are an ingredient in the recipe of presentations. Visual aids make it easier to communicate complex topics. Now for critical information for you. The viewing time for most […]
Public Speaking: The Top 6 Tips for Using Visual Aids in Your Presentation
Public Speaking: The Top 6 Tips for Using Visual Aids in Your Presentation People remember 30% of what they hear. 40% of what they see and 50% of what they see and hear. Thus, using visual aids when doing a presentation is a fantastic way to boost what people remember of what you say. The […]
Public Speaking- Top Tips for Speech Writing
Public Speaking- Top Tips for Speech Writing Asked to do a presentation, a speech? Speech writing is different than other forms of writing. The best speeches are written not to be read but to be heard. Get into the joy of speeches and writing. Maximize your chances of saying something well by writing the […]
English Speech Communication: Tips for Being Clear When Teaching a Task
English Speech Communication: Tips for Being Clear When Teaching a Task Do you recall the last time you assigned a person to complete a task for you at work or in daily life (family or friend)? Here are some tips for being clear in that circumstance: Set the climate. Be sure you are in […]
Public Speaking Training: Clear and To-the-Point
Public Speaking Training: Clear and To-the-Point Do you want to be a communicator who expresses ideas clearly? Do you want to be clear and to-the-point for presentations? Those presentations could be any presentation, from a five-minute informal chat, to a thirty-minute formal speech using many examples. Here are some tips for expressing ideas clearly. […]
Rapport- How Much to Customize?
Rapport- How Much to Customize? Go to the trouble of learning about the audience. Make six or seven references geared specifically to your audience. That makes you, the speaker, something of an insider and lets the audience know you took the trouble of learning about them. Make comments – humorous statements, praise, or just simple […]
Rapport- How to?
Rapport- How to? How to get to that sweet spot of building mutual warmth and walking the same page with your audience? Answer: Put their needs and interests ahead of your own. You don’t ignore your own needs, but put the spotlight on their needs. For example, if your audience has been listening to hours […]