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: 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...
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....
Is Your Comfort Zone a Confinement Of Anxiety? When you step out of your comfort zone and try something different, you can’t help but notice how your perspective changes. It can be terrifying at first but when you get in the habit of trying new things on a regular...
Building Rapport is High Value in Sales Have you ever felt an instant connection with someone? Or the opposite. Have you immediately felt uncomfortable with someone and wondered why? Do you ever notice that some days you are tuned in to some people but not so much to...
