Articles to Improve Your Skills
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How to Transform Your Fear of Public Speaking Into Energy
Public Speaking Anxiety Isn’t The Same for Everyone If you had to paint a picture of your fear of public speaking, what would it look like? A troll? An eerie shadow? A dark cloud hovering over you standing in an otherwise sunny location?
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Collecting Presentation Feedback to Improve Your Skills
Why Is Getting Presentation Feedback So Important? Collecting presentation feedback is probably low on your list of priorities, especially if you’re terrified of public speaking and not making a fool of yourself in front of a group of people is your biggest concern. But having some sort of response system in place so your audience
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Presentation Contingency Plans: When Plan ‘A’ Doesn’t Pan Out
Presentation Disasters Happen All The Time There’s an old saying that goes: “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” Translation: I don’t care who you are or how much planning you’ve put into something, stuff goes wrong. That goes for presentations, too. Presentation disasters happen every day.
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Filler Words Are, Like, Ruining Your Presentations
Filler Words In Public Speaking I know you notice when others use them. I know you don’t mean to use them yourself. But those awful filler words have a way of creeping into your presentations the way a family of skunks hides under your front porch. You don’t notice them at first, because they’re so
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4 Ways You’re Ending Your Business Presentations Wrong
Close a Presentation Effectively You may think your presentations are incredibly well put together; you invest a lot of time into practicing your delivery and you are careful to use body language that sends a positive message to your audience. You know your stuff. You speak confidently. You hook your listeners with an opening that
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Body Language Doesn’t Lie
The Truth About Body Language When people tell us about their fear of public speaking, we find that what they’re most worried about is giving a bad public speaking performance. They worry about messing up their words, about forgetting what they want to say, or making some other mistake. If you’re one of these people,