Gratitude Rituals Will Help Your Presentation Research has established that appreciating something that has come our way evokes positive emotions in us. It promotes a desire to do something good in return – as long as we feel that we are not indebted to whomever gave us the reason to feel grateful. According to research […]
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Speakers – Overcome the Fear of Rejection
Speakers get comfortable with your audience. With Halloween just around the corner, I am reminded of things that scare us. Generally cited at the top of the list of things we fear is public speaking. After years of working as a communication coach and working with speakers who fear getting in front of an audience […]
Learn How to Track Your Presentation Performance
Speakers can improve performance by tracking elements of their presentation. Years ago when I was employed in a corporate health coaching role, the majority of clients I worked with were seeing me for weight loss. At that time, tracking apps, such as MyFitnessPal, were becoming popular to track performance, caloric intake and exercise habits. I […]
Safe, Secure and Stress-Less Travel for the Professional Speaker
Tips for Professional Speakers on the Road After arriving at my final destination for a speaking engagement in late spring, I walked down to baggage claim, sat on a bench, and input my hotel address in my phone to catch an Uber. I had to go upstairs to “arrivals” to catch my Uber, and in […]
Are your Presentation Slides Distracting Your Audience?
How to Create Presentation Enhancing Slides The Chinese proverb, “A picture is worth a thousand words” is supported by research that has found that a speaker’s message is more memorable, more interesting, more easily understood, and more persuasive (Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning, 2005, New York: Cambridge University Press). If this is true, why do […]
How Do You Create Content for Your Speech?
A Road Map to Developing Your Speech One of the areas where many emerging speakers struggle is how to start creating content for a speech, or presentation. There are many steps in the process of developing content for an audience, then verbally delivering it. Let’s start by breaking down the content development process into smaller, […]