Handling the audience in public speaking Audiences Are Your Friend For the rank amateur to the ignorant professional, audiences create the same effect no matter how small they are to a speaker. Fear and anxiety. From a single person to a crowd as big as the fans in the Super Bowl, speaking in front of […]
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Public Speaking Success Tip - Avoid fillers Unless your speech if absolutely fascinating, any "pause fillers" you add repetitiously, like um, or y'know, or OK will start to stand out. They will capture the audience above your speech. Start by listening to others - sports commentators, interviewees on television, anyone speaking publicly. Listen for their […]
Test your happiness
Are you as happy as these people? Psychologists say it is possible to measure your happiness. This test designed by psychologist Professor Ed Diener from the University of Illinois, takes just a minute to complete. To find out how happy you are just look at the five statements below and decide whether you agree or […]
How to give your presentation a great title
How to give your presentation a great title People don’t usually give much thought to the title of their presentations. Yet they should. Giving your presentation an interesting title means that interested people are likely to turn up to hear you speak. If you ever speak at seminars you realise that you are sometimes competing […]
Design thinking and innovation
Not so long ago, Tim Brown recounts, designers belonged to a “priesthood.” Given an assignment, a designer would disappear into a back room, “bring the result out under a black sheet and present it to the client.” Brown and his colleagues at IDEO, the company that brought us the first Apple Macintosh mouse, couldn’t have […]
Creating the WOW factor in your Speech or Presentation – Consider your Audience Why are you giving this speech? What do you hope to achieve with your presentation?What sort of impact do you want to create? What will that “WOW” be? In creating that “WOW”, that impact, one of the most important steps will be […]
How much are they paid?
Seven occupations make more than $100K a year by G. Scott Thomas America's pay scales Doctors, pilots and lawyers deliver essential services, often at strange hours and under high stress.And they're paid well for their effort.Doctors earn more than anyone else in the private sector, averaging $145,688 a year, according to a Bizjournals.com analysis of […]
The Guy Kawasaki 10/20/30 Rule of Powerpoint The majority of the presentations that I see have text in a ten point font. As much text as possible is jammed into the slide, and then the presenter reads it. However, as soon as the audience figures out that you’re reading the text, it reads ahead of […]
Entrepreneurship – Portal
The Kauffman Foundation — which “is the 26th largest foundation in the United States with an asset base of approximately $2 billion” — concentrates its funding efforts in two areas: education and entrepreneurship. Its Entrepreneurship Research Portal “is a unique aggregation of resources, events and data about entrepreneurship.” Read more entrepreneur, business, success
Three essential body language tips For anyone who has done some training with me, you’ll know that I don’t focus on body language when presenting. People can get obsessed by trying to look convincing or slick, and neglect the content of their presentation. They perform all the textbook hand gestures, and what comes out of […]
