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How VALUABLE is Your Speaking Topic?
What information can be used immediately by the audience and what is to follow?
Can you tell the audience in 30 seconds or less what you do and also give them three things that they can use immediately? The chances are that you probably cannot. If ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Bette Daoust, Ph.D.
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Giving Your Audience Great Benefits
What benefit do you provide the audience?
People should listen to you because you have an important message that will help them to improve their business or personal lives. They are there for no other reason. Yes, they will attend out of sheer inte...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Bette Daoust, Ph.D.
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What is YOUR Speaking Expertise?
Why do you have to be an expert when getting speaking engagements?
The first thing you need to do before engaging into a speaking career is to define what you are an expert in. I have seen so many speakers that get relegated into the mediocre list ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Bette Daoust, Ph.D.
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How to Create a Compelling Media Kit
A well-built media kit is vital for effective marketing. Without it, all your promotional efforts could be wasted. You might be able to talk a good game and get the “hiring” company energized and excited about your speech presentations, but when th...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Wendi McNeill
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Speakers Learn How to Define Your Niche
This is one of the hardest things speakers have to do - defining their niche, and in most cases, it can stop them dead in their tracks. Inexperienced speakers have a tendency to generalize themselves and that won’t lead to those successful paid spe...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Wendi McNeill
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Demand Dignity in Public Speaking Training
Mandy*, a bright, attractive professional woman, had a fear of speaking in front of groups. Recognizing that her feelings of vulnerability and self-consciousness were limiting her potential, she showed up for a presentation skills class filled with...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Melissa Mayers Lewis
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Lose Stagefright Over Your Lunch Hour
While teaching a two-day Speaking Confidence program to a group of 25 government secretaries, I wanted to give them practice using their personal experience to help others. So I gave them a simple assignment to ponder over their lunch hour: Think o...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Melissa Mayers Lewis
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The Porch Light* Method to Speaking Confidence
You know the feeling. Looking out at a sea of faces, you notice a few scowls, frowns, even droopy eyelids on some of your audience members. What are they thinking? Do they disagree with your points? Are they in a bad mood? Do they just not like YOU...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Melissa Mayers Lewis
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Start Conversations as Easily as You Start a Car
Starting a car is easy. Put the key in, turn it, and the car starts. Would it not be great if starting a conversation was this easy? It can be--if you know how!
Unfortunately, many people don't know how. They struggle with starting conversations. I...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Arlen Busenitz
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Speak Up or Sit Down
Last night the phone rang; my wife said, "I hope it's for you". When I answered, the caller asked, "Ray, would you speak to the Lions Club next month?" First my gut said, "No"; however, my head said, "Do it". So, one month from next Tuesday, I stan...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : A. Raymond Randall, Jr.
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Beating Your Fear of Public Speaking
Knocking knees, butterflies (who came up with that word?) in your stomach, sweaty palms, quavering voice. We’ve all been there – some of us more than others. I’m going to share with you some of the tricks of the trade to help manage and reduce your...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Dana Bristol-Smith
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Speak With a Relaxed Body and Mind
Fear of public speaking is No.1. Death is No.4. So most people would rather get a root canal and pay their taxes than speak in front of an audience!
1. Sure you have catecholamines all speakers do (including Sir Winston Churchill and Presidents Ken...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Sandra Schrift
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Lessons in Love for the Shy at Heart
One of the biggest regrets of my life is that I was cursed with the shyness gene. Shyness is an often misunderstood condition that can leave the afflicted alone and miserable. As a victim of shyness, I completely understand the pitfalls. I also ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jennifer G. Smith
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Earn Your Cs as A Speaker
Franklin Delano Roosevelt had some good advice for the public speaker when he said, be sincere, be brief, be seated. Be simple, natural and effective and earn your C’s.
1. Be fully Committed to your message and be ready to take action in the face o...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Sandra Schrift
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Knowing Your Boundaries
While delivering a speech, it is clear that we will be judged and perceived in a certain way based on our ideas, words, and body language. Taking a risk and really thinking out of the box can be quite rewarding and at the same time, it can be a di...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Martin Perras
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For Speaking Ease, Forgive Your Younger Self
I love the Disney movie The Kid with Bruce Willis. In it he plays a stressed-out, high-power image consultant. He wears expensive suits, lives in a chic, elegantly furnished home and has all the money he can spend. His biggest challenge comes when ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Melissa Mayers Lewis
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Ethics in Speaking: A Practical Point of View
Often managers have to deliver presentations with unpleasant content. The vice president has to announce that there is a hiring freeze or a downsizing. The human resource director speaks to the employees about a benefits package with fewer benefits...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Stephen D. Boyd
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Know Your Audience
What is worse than wearing a tuxedo to an event
when everyone else is attending in shorts?
I have said the same thing over and over again: before you attend the event, get to know the audience. If the audience is not right for you, you may attend,...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Bette Daoust, Ph.D.
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Are You Talking the Talk?
“More learning occurs through emotion than through intellect” C.S. Lewis
Even Hillary Clinton needs presentation skills.
In an article in the NY Post the headline read Rookie Orator is Learning to Talk the Talk.Hillary hs benefitted from public spe...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Diane DiResta
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Conversationally Speaking
“Would you like to say a few words?” How many of us dread that request? The thought of speaking off the cuff can terrify even veteran speakers. But what about the ability to give a prepared speech and sound natural?
As a speech coach, I see hundred...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Diane DiResta
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Speaking One-to-One
Speaking to an individual is different from the group experience. Whether you are training someone, selling, coaching, or asking for a raise, here are some tips for speaking one-to-one.
• Eliminate distractions. Choose a comfortable setting—perhaps...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Diane DiResta
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For Speakers: Ten Tips on How to Increase Your Fees
One of the most important tools speakers use is their FEE
SCHEDULE. Here are ten tips to help you increase your
attractiveness and income, while communicating exactly what
you offer and clarify your fees for your programs, products,
and services.
1...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Catherine Franz
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Executive Public Speaking for English as a Second Language (ESL)
Public Speaking is a challenging skill. It is TOUGH! For some of you, it’s probably the hardest thing you will ever do; and I can sympathize. Standing in front of the employees and coworkers that you want, (or need) to impress, all the while hop...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Martin Perras
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Five Tired, Worn Out Speaking Cliches
The subject of public speaking is riddled with tired, worn out cliches we ought to throw out. Here are a few to let go of:
1. "Public speaking is the #1 fear."
You can count on hearing this one any time you take a presentation skills class. The pro...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Melissa Mayers Lewis
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Be a Guest Speaker and Attract Business
Being a guest speaker in front of the right audience can be an excellent way to attract new business. Many clubs, organizations, conventions, and trade shows seek guest speakers who can provide useful information to their audience. The opportunity ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Michael Losier
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