Why Your Audience Matters Most I want to know about you. I do. And so does your audience. Oh no…I can hear you cringing from here. If you are a professional speaker or you want to become a speaker, it is vital you know how to share your story. Remembering your...
Top Tips to Create Compelling Presentations One of the downsides to being a speaker’s coach is that I’ve had to train myself to just sit back and enjoy what a speaker is saying rather than analysing their presentation. A tough ask but I’m working on it. I used to be...
Public Speaking Secret #3 – How Anecdotes Relate Apart from not feeling comfortable speaking about themselves, my clients get most anxious about what they are going to speak about when they make the decision they want to develop presentations and speak from stage....
Are Your Perfectionist Traits Holding You Back? I figure I’m like most people. Not quite a perfectionist but we do like things done to a particular standard. Nothing wrong with that…unless it means we don’t recognise our shortcomings and get help when we need it. And...
Why Take the Road Less Travelled One of my favourite poems of all time is Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” You may have read it and love it as much as I do. If you haven’t then I’d recommend doing so. When I first read this poem I was completed senior studies....
Public Speaking: Practice won’t make you perfect… Why? Practice makes perfect. Well that is what we are constantly told isn’t it? But is it correct? This idea was probably best publicised as Malcolm Gladwell’s “10,000-hour rule”, which says that takes 10,000...
