Three Ways to Succeed With Your Public Speaking Goals This Year
Have you made a New Year’s resolution to finally succeed with your public speaking goals? Have you decided, finally, to overcome your fear of public speaking, or become a better presenter? I assume that you’re interested in the topic, or you wouldn’t be reading this article! But have you come up with anything specific to […]
Public Speaking Mistakes I’ve Made
Public Speaking Mistakes I’ve Made I’ve made many public speaking mistakes: especially in the early days, when I was feeling my way and still learning what worked and what didn’t. So today I thought I’d give you three mistakes that I used to make – mistakes which threw up roadblocks for my audiences and stopped […]
What’s the Right Level of Presenting Energy for You?
Clients often ask me about the right level of presenting energy for them – what’s effective and appropriate? My answer is that there are a few variables, so let me give you some pointers to start the discussion in today’s post. Firstly, how do people judge our energy levels? It can be boiled down to […]
Public Speaking Fear: Four Stage Process To Handle It
Public Speaking Fear: Four Stage Process To Handle It Today I’m doing a video post about my four stage process to finally get unstuck and handle your public speaking fear. These mindset shifts and actions will help you to deal with any fear and anxiety. The video goes for just over 6 minutes. Hope you […]
Helpful Self-Talk Language Shift For Nervous Speakers
Helpful Self-Talk Language Shift For Nervous Speakers [Updated July 2020]. I often chat to clients about their self-talk around public speaking. Using helpful self-talk language before you present will make a difference to how confident and in control you feel. And research from 2015 is showing that, believe it or not, talking to yourself using […]
Vocal Presence – Using your Voice to Own the Space
Vocal Presence – Using your Voice to Own the Space Our delivery style is crucial to getting a message across effectively to our audience, and one of the key factors in delivery is using our voice to create power, warmth and persuasiveness. Our voice gives our audience clear messages about our confidence, energy and vitality. […]
Tell Your Public Speaking Success Story Backwards
Public Speaking Success Exercise Today’s post gives you a short but effective exercise to make positive changes in your public speaking. You might think this technique only works if you’re the creative, arty type – this isn’t true! I’ve seen it work with many different personality types, from accountants to software engineers to teachers. I’ve […]
Public Speaking Anxiety – A Drive for Certainty?
Public Speaking Anxiety – A Drive for Certainty? Anxiety: it’s not only a signal that something needs attention – it can also be a drive to eliminate uncertainty and a sense of loss of control in our lives. And in working with many clients on their public speaking anxiety, I’m frequently seeing that many of them have […]
Audience Brains Need Structure When You Speak In Public
Audience brains need structure when you speak in public What’s one thing that your audience really needs from you when you speak in public? A structure. It’s so important to give them a clear framework for your content. Our brains are pattern-making machines. We’re constantly scanning new information for patterns which we can relate to […]
9 Mistakes Presenters Make
9 Mistakes Presenters Make Do you want to be a more dynamic presenter? You will be if you avoid these frequent mistakes. I’ve discussed all of these ideas in previous articles, but thought it was worth clustering them together for a ‘common mistakes’ overview. 1. Forgetting the WIIFM filter One of the most common […]