Besides eating less, stop smoking and hitting the gym, many of you have made New Year’s resolutions to improve your presentation skills. By putting less food in your mouth, chew
Unlike our King and Queen, not many of us are ‘privileged’ by being noble at birth. Yet even we, mere mortals, are able to give a speech like a true
Do you speak the same language as your audience? We’ve all seen him before. The enthusiastic executive presenting to his team, indulging everyone with jargon as ‘maximizing our shareholder value’
With the rise of global teams and telecommuting, many people now have to present over the phone via teleconference to audience members who are not in the same room with
How to combat anxiety before showdown. Jerry Springer once pointed out that the people attending a funeral would rather lie in the casket than give the eulogy. Does this seem
‘How do I keep my audience awake for any length of time?’ Many speakers make the mistake of conceptualizing their presentation in terms of length. It’s an unhappy fact that
The 3 Key Body Language Techniques of Public Speaking Of all the communication skills available to you as a public speaker, how important is body language? The answer: extremely. More
Add (silent) dialogue to your presentation. How many times did you doze off, while a presenter was reading his slides? If people are talked at and don’t feel engaged, their
We’ve all been there before. You sat through a presentation and would much rather take a bullet than another bullet point slide. Right? It now turns out it’s not your
