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July 24, 2018
Why You Need an Owl
One of the surprising discoveries I made while researching my new book, Can You Hear Me?, due out from Harvard in October, was why it is that video conferencing is so difficult to get right. You’d think it would be easy, since you’ve got sound and visuals. It’s just like being in the same room […]
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July 19, 2018
What’s the Next Book?
When you finish one book and you send it off to the publisher, there’s a sense of accomplishment, but also of loss. The manuscript has become your companion on a long journey, and you’re sorry to part company as you near journey’s end. So naturally you look around to see if you can spot another […]
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July 17, 2018
Toastmasters’ New Venture in Online Education
I’m a long-time fan of Toastmasters and the work it does worldwide to promote public speaking and leadership. And it’s been a while since I talked about the group. A recent announcement caught my eye – Toastmasters was launching something called Pathways. I had to know – what was it? How was Toastmasters changing? And […]
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July 12, 2018
More Fear of Public Speaking
The fear of public speaking is real and lodges somewhere on a scale of annoying-to-debilitating for most people. I’ve posted many times on various ways to help with those jitters. The best way is rehearsal, because if you’re confident and you’ve practiced many times, then whatever level of fear you have will be more manageable. […]
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July 10, 2018
Amazing Human Tricks and Public Speaking
By now, if you’ve wasted even a small amount of time on the Internet when you should be doing more serious things, you’ve probably seen images or video of those giant flocks of birds changing direction almost as one. And scientists have figured out that it’s even more amazing than it looks, because there’s no […]
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July 5, 2018
The Problem with Online Feedback, Part 2
Last time I talked about the differences between explicit and implicit feedback, how implicit feedback is missing from the virtual world, and the resulting difficulties with feedback online. Lacking the unconscious stream of emotional information that we receive automatically from other people face-to-face, online communication and feedback are much less robust, much less compelling, and […]
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July 3, 2018
The Problem with Online Feedback
In an earlier blog post I talked about the difference between implicit and explicit feedback. Implicit feedback is what you convey with your body language when you deliver a tough critique, for example, but soften it with a smile. Explicit feedback is that tough critique – it’s what you say. Explicit feedback relies on implicit […]
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June 28, 2018
Coping with the Stress of Public Speaking
It’s no secret that public speaking is stressful for most people. Helping people cope with that stress is something I spend a good deal of my professional life working on, through blog posts, books, speaking, and one-on-one coaching. In Power Cues, I talk about the importance of self-talk, self-training, visualization, and other such forms of […]
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June 26, 2018
How to Give a Virtual Introdution
Last week, I updated a post from 2011 that has been perennially popular, on giving an in-person introduction for a speaker. But today, your introduction of someone else may just as likely be online, for a webinar or a video conference or something similar. Does the virtual medium affect the rules of introducing someone? How […]
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June 21, 2018
How to Give a Great Introduction 2018
We were reviewing the stats on this blog recently, and one of the surprising numbers is that the blog post that consistently gets the most views is one I did over a half-dozen years ago on how to introduce a speaker. I suppose that’s where most people start their speaking careers – introducing someone else […]
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