Public Speaking Success – Read your Audience Novice public speakers often ask me how to best gauge an audience during a speech. Hearing this question impresses me because indicates a speaker is making an effort to more effectively connect with his or her audience. Reading your audience can help you in a variety of ways …
Let’s face it, Public Speaking is hard. For most it is an experience of dreaded more that snakes, spiders and even death itself. These beliefs tend to influence our physiology (define) and our ability to deliver as a speaker. The “speakers nerves,” speakers anxiety, or the fear of public speaking lead to many weaknesses in …
Public speaking isn’t without its benefits. My friends, family and others have heard me declare my love for public speaking for many years now. They often ask why I love it so much. My answer is always the same. Public speaking changed my life in ways I could have never imagined. Its impacts go far …
As a public speaking trainer and perpetual student of public speaking I’m always looking deeper into this art to learn more. Public speaking represents unique challenges for everyone who endeavors to do it well. Truth be told, many of them are in the realm of the mind. In my public speaking training practice I’ve found …
Public speaking is often listed as one of the most feared experiences. This is often listed before fear of snakes, spiders and even death itself. Really? Is public speaking really worse than death? How is it that such a powerful communication skill gets such a powerfully negative perception. Scientific scrutiny shows that it has to …
