When you build yourself up, you let your audience down. Let’s face it; there are some speakers who use the platform to stroke their ego. I may have been one of them in the past. However, when we talk about how great we are and speak only of our successes, our audience members think of […]
Continue readingKey 1: Set expectations as to how many questions you will take or how long you will entertain questions. For example, I usually say, “We’ll take 4 or 5 questions and then I’ll wrap up the message.” Or I might say, “We have 5 minutes for questions and then we’ll put a bow on the […]
Continue readingWould you like a surefire way to clarify your message, shorten it, and make it stick? One of the best ways to do this is to relate the unknown to the known. In textbook language this is referred to as activating prior knowledge. Analogies help tremendously in this area. Webster’s New World Dictionary’s definition of […]
Continue readingBy “loose” I mean the content is not tied to anything. This is by far the biggest problem in public speaking…loose speeches. The solution is to make sure every major point you make in your speech is tied to an anchor of some sort. An anchor is anything that will help your audience remember the […]
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