Articles to Improve Your Skills
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Meet the Press
Dealing With the Media So you have to do a media interview and you sense the crowd may be hostile. Understanding that you may be asked some tough, pointed questions has you a bit on edge. Certainly you’d like to control the situation and get out of there with your hide still intact while at…
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How to Use Gestures Effectively
How To Have Effective Gestures We talk a lot about verbal and non-verbal communication in our public speaking workshops, but what exactly is non-verbal communication? To put it simply, it’s the way you communicate through body language or gestures, and it’s a critical component of presentation skills training. To make a gesture is to move…
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Effective PowerPoint Tips
Using PowerPoint Effectively Who hasn’t attended a meeting or presentation where the speaker overused their PowerPoint Presentation and created a slow death for their audience? You know; the one that had 125 slides and went through them in 20 minutes. Or the presenter that had to read each slide because the font was too small.…
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Practice and Preparation Equals Success
How to Prepare For a Presentation So you’ve been called on by a senior manager to deliver a presentation to the company’s Board of Directors at their next meeting. You’re no stranger to public speaking; you frequently lead team meetings and make presentations to senior staff several times a year. But we’re talking about the…
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Catapulting Your Charisma
The Power of Charisma Have you ever noticed how some speakers seem to have a special power to draw others in? Their presence is engaging, comforting, and their passion makes you want to listen to what they have to say. They are compelling, and you spontaneously gravitate toward them and want to follow their lead.…
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How To Engage Your Audience
Passion to Engage Your Audience Passion is the key to really being able to engage your audience! There is no shortage of rules that relate to public speaking. Stand up straight. Speak clearly and with enough volume. Make eye contact if you want to engage the room and on and on and on. All of…