presentation skills
presentation skills
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by J. Douglas Jefferys - 2008-07-29
In Part III we discussed the importance of making sure that you tell your audience what your solution or recommendation is immediately after announcing the problem or opportunity at hand. Audiences a...
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by J. Douglas Jefferys - 2008-07-30
It's common to believe, when you listen to great speakers at work, that certain people are simply born with the talent to speak well, and therefore no amount of training or practicing is going to tra...
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by J. Douglas Jefferys - 2008-07-30
People who get paid well to speak all share one of two traits: either they're famous, or they own "The Skills". To be able to move people who don't know you as a celebrity of some sort, you must know...
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by J. Douglas Jefferys - 2008-07-30
An Inconvenient SpeakerWe have made the claim many times that Bill Clinton is the Master of the Pause. In fact, we have said that it is exactly this mastery that causes more people in polls to name t...
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by J. Douglas Jefferys - 2008-08-01
Fight or FlightWhen the hypothalamus, which regulates most bodily functions, receives the threat signal, it sends a group of hormones to the pituitary gland at the base of your brain. This in turn re...
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by Nancy Daniels - 2008-10-10
In Part 1 of The Speech Versus The Presentation, I talked about the differences between those two formats whereas in Part 2, I discussed speechwriting and how the format is identical for both. Whil...
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by Nancy Daniels - 2008-10-13
Is it possible to try 'too hard' in public speaking? Most definitely. Whereas that particular group of people is considerably smaller than the underachieving group (those who are not well prepare...
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by Nancy Daniels - 2008-10-14
Through my many years in the voice business, I have learned more from my clients than any book or theory on voice. What has been extremely fascinating is what I have discovered as to why we sound t...
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by Nancy Daniels - 2008-10-16
Recently at a Voice and Presentation Skills workshop I was holding in Toronto, Canada, a man stood to give a brief presentation and for the next 3 minutes we were bombarded by constant verbiage. Loud...
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by Nancy Daniels - 2008-10-20
What does your handshake say about you? Confident, diffident, overbearing, wimpy? Does the sound of your speaking voice match the grip of your handshake? Â In teaching voice improvement, I have foun...