One of the best public speaking tips I can give as a public speaking coach is to learn from an Actor. An Actor has studied communication and acting is one of the oldest forms of communication. It has been studied as a communicative art for two or three thousand years
The Greeks and the Romans were […]
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I am a professional public speaking coach and I still get nervous before public speaking but it is totally different to a fear of public speaking. People sometimes confuse nerves as a fear of public speaking and think being nervous is bad thing but I think nerves are good.
When you have an interview or go […]
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Pete talks about his take on the fear of public speaking
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A public speaking tip that’ll help you a lot is to understand the difference between a speaker and an MC.
The difference is that the speaker doesn’t necessarily have to be organised; but the MC definitely does.
You can be a totally disorganised speaker and still perform well - as long as you finish on time. The […]
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One of the best public speaking tips I can give you is to only use PowerPoint when there’s no possible way to explain it. So, people put these words, they put phrases, whole lots of words and text up on screen, yet you can’t tell me that a person standing up there with all the […]
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Posted in Speaking on Jan 17th, 2008
It always seems like a good idea at the time and you might just say ‘yes, I’d love to help you and MC and what a thrill and what an honour, thank you very much for that’ and then I get all these calls two days before and they say ‘Oh My God, I agreed […]
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Posted in Speaking on Jan 17th, 2008
Have you’ve ever been to a wedding where the speeches were horrible. I bet you thought ‘I don’t want to do that, I don’t want to go there, that guy was terrible, I can’t do that’, because, you know, it’s just to do with your self-esteem, you’re naked on the stage, you’re absolutely naked. It’s […]
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