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March 12, 2019
Speakers, How Do You Feel About Your Body?
When you stand up to speak in front of an audience, what, besides the inevitable stage fright, do you experience? One important part of your stage presence is how you feel about your body. I was a chubby boy and have never quite managed to shake the sense that I should weigh about 10 pounds […]
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March 7, 2019
True Listening: How can you tell when you’re being listened to?
In my last post I decried the epidemic of fake listening that rages through our society, brought on by the pace of life, the deluge of information, and the need to keep up with virtual inputs rather than the person in front of us. This time, let’s look at the opposite phenomenon. It may be […]
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March 5, 2019
Are you even listening? How to Spot a Fake Listener!
As a nation, and a world, we’ve all pretty much stopped listening to one another. We’ve separated into tribes, and we demonize the other tribes as devoid of reason, humanity, and good sense. Social media is of course the carrier of this epidemic, if not actually the cause. But the deeper reason is that we […]
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February 27, 2019
What To Do After a Speech
Do you believe that giving a speech is an honor or a gift? Should the audience be grateful that you’ve made the effort, or should you be grateful that they’ve shown up? The correct answer is all of the above, surely. And as such, and especially in this virtual era, getting a group of people […]
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February 26, 2019
What To Do Before A Speech
If you’re a long-time reader of this blog, you know that I’m primarily a coach and secondarily a speaker. Lately, I’ve been out on the road more than usual talking about the issues raised in my new book, Can You Hear Me? How to Connect with People in a Virtual World. Naturally, I try to […]
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February 19, 2019
Q & A with Expert Speaking Coach and Author Allison Shapira
I had the great pleasure of a conversation with Allison Shapira, a fellow speaking coach, the other day, and when two speaking coaches get together, they naturally dish about their pet peeves and the trends they see in public speaking. We’ll get to that in a minute. But first the basics. Allison began her professional life […]
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February 14, 2019
What Is Charisma?
What is charisma? Sooner or later almost everyone I coach asks me that question. And it immediately leads to the next inevitable query: How can I increase my own? Charisma, as it is generally understood, is something you know when you see but you have a hard time putting your finger on or defining. Some celebrities, […]
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February 12, 2019
Sharing the stage – tips for presenting with other people
It’s surprising how often people present in pairs on stage, or set up panels, or group shows of one kind or another. It’s also surprising how often people miss some simple ways to make the experience more engaging and more delightful for the audience and themselves. All too often, everyone just does their own thing […]
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February 10, 2019
Dealing with Hostility as a Speaker
One of the interesting by-products of our world becoming more virtual over the past decade is that behavior which would never have been appropriate face-to-face is now leaking back into that world from the virtual one. For speakers this development has a particularly interesting aspect: audiences now feel more entitled to turn negative and to […]
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February 5, 2019
King and Connecting with an Audience
What makes a great speech? Every year around this time in the US we honor Martin Luther King, Jr, for his selfless dedication to improving the civil rights of Americans. Part of the reason we honor him is that he had a way of articulating in memorable language what many Americans were feeling: I have […]
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