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Serious Q & A Sessionst
One of the biggest mistakes I see presenters make during public speaking engagements has to do with the handling of question-and-answer sessions. The presenter does a good program, has a powerful close, opens the program up to questions, answers th...
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Give em What They Want
I have been in public speaking situations where I meticulously planned for a big event and when I showed up there were only three people in the audience. You can't just quit and walk away, but you can't work a plan for 500 on only 3 either.
So what...
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Time of Day Matters
Public speaking has aspects related to time of day that you must know about. The first speaker of the day for an early morning (7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.) program should not expect hearty laughter. People are not conditioned to laugh a great deal in t...
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Using Visual Aids and Props for Giving More Powerful Presentations
Visual aids and props can go a long way in lending interest and depth to your presentation. Many people are highly visual in nature. “Did you see that!” Audiences tend to remember visually presented information more clearly and in more detail. If ...
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Public Speaking: Give Me a Brake
... a mental brake that is. Here are some mind tricks when you speak too fast.
* Imagine that your audience is comprised of 5 year olds and you have to explain some difficult concept to them. You must obviously go slowly so they can understand you....
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Public Speaking: The WOW! Factor
What do you do during your public speaking presentations that cause the audience to say WOW? Dewitt Jones, a former photographer for National Geographic uses slides that literally give you goose pimples. Tom Ogden, an award winning magician from th...
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Public Speaking: Dynamic Range
I invented the concept of 'Dynamic Range' in public speaking to help you improve your versatility as a business presenter, and to help you pick appropriate audiences for your skill and interest level (Did he say 'pick' my audiences?). Yes, I did sa...
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Public Speaking: Add Magic to Your Presentations
There is just something about a magic trick during a public speaking engagement that grabs people. The nice thing about it is that as a public speaker who uses magic to make a point, you are not held to the high standards you would be held to if yo...
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Public Speaking: Be Careful
I was doing an event for 3200 people in California and it was a really big deal. I had a two stage managers with headsets counting down 30 seconds till show time, a personal assistant and complete video crew for tape and image projection. Everythin...
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Public Speaking: Gimme Three Steps
Do you remember that song by Lynyrd Skynyrd? 'Gimme three steps, gimme three steps mister, gimme three steps towards the door.' I try to remember that song when I am moving on stage during a public speaking engagement.
When you are moving on the st...
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Public Speaking: On Stage Tips
* The larger the crowd, the larger and slower the gestures.
* If you have a small crowd, or if you are videoconferencing, or on television, use smaller gestures.
* Work to eliminate distracting or nervous gestures, but do not kill yourself to add n...
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Public Speaking: Timing
Timing in public speaking is one of the most important aspects of humor and NO ZZZZZs speaking. Not only is timing involved in an individual piece of humor, it is also involved in the placement of that piece of humor in the overall presentation. Ti...
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Public Speaking: Stand Still
One of the most common problems I see, even with experienced public speakers, is that they do not seem to be capable of standing still when they should. It is very distracting to try to listen to a public speaking presentation when someone is wande...
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Public Speaking: Start Low
Unless you are doing some type of surprise or big rah rah opening in your public speaking engagement, consciously start out with a slightly lower than normal voice inflection.
In the excitement or nervousness that many of us feel at the beginning o...
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Public Speaking: Bounce Around
I recently had one of the toughest public speaking engagements of my career. It was a three hour afternoon session on Martin Luther King day in Baltimore, Maryland. It was difficult for many reasons, but one of the most trying was that the audience...
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Public Speaking: Vulnerability
I learned a great public speaking tip, at the recent National Speakers Association convention while standing around talking shop in the hotel lobby.
John Meluso
spent some time with me and noted that I was not showing any vulnerability at all near ...
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Public Speaking: Lay Down the Law
When speaking in public, it is always best to communicate a clear set of ground rules near the beginning of your public speaking engagement. For instance, if you do not want questions until the end of your program, state that up front and get agree...
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Public Speaking: The Front Row
In the research I did on my recent public speaking trip to Thailand, I discovered that a meeting or seminar custom is to seat VIP attendees in the front row. No one of a lesser status either socially or in business would think of sitting closer to ...
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Public Speaking: Equipment Photographs
I've talked about this tip before, but ran into the same situation again this month while doing a public speaking engagement in Morocco. The primary languages there are Arabic and French. Just arranging for an overhead projector was very difficult....
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Public Speaking: Show em When You Cross Cultures
Regardless of one's nationality and culture, cartoons and comic strips are the most universally accepted format for humor in public speaking engagements. These pieces of visual humor are seen in newspapers and magazines in most areas of the world. ...
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Public Speaking: Bilingual Help
When going over room setup and audio visual requirements with a foreign logistics person, make sure you do it in advance of the presentation (hopefully several times), and have a bilingual person there to ensure that both you and the logistics pe...
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Public Speaking: International Perspective on Humor
United States public speaking audiences are becoming more and more diverse. It is your responsibility as a public speaker to be aware of and acknowledge significant portions of the audience that come from differing backgrounds. If you are speaking ...
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Public Speaking:Words are Funny
Some words are simply funnier than others. Your word choice can be the key to creating a successful witty line or a dud. All professional comedy writers agree on the following fact. The sound of certain words can virtually guarantee a laugh. In par...
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Public Speaking:Toasts
Toasting is not nearly as common as it once was. However, the polished public speaker should have a few short toasts ready to go if and when the occasion arises. Here are a few fun toasts and a few touching ones too:
Birthdays:
To your birthday, gl...
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Public Speaking:Simile
Simile is a comparison of two things which, however different in other respects, have some strong point or points in common. The words 'like' and 'as' will normally be used when making the comparison.
You might say, 'Getting this contract signed is...
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