Imagine my thrill as I read respected author Seth Godin declare that any great presenter must have two qualities – respect from the audience and love for the audience! Take a look at his post at http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/03/the-two-elements-of-a-great-presenter.html.. Then read my post at http://sz.self-expression.com/don%e2%80%99t-talk-to-strangers-how-caring-for-your-audience-helps-stage-fright-and-fear-of-public-speaking/ Love is a vibrational frequency that attracts. Love is not only the answer…
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Speaking to groups of people, sharing your ideas, insights and expertise can be a peak experience if you open to be yourself fully in front of others. I found myself humming the song “I Enjoy Being a Girl” yesterday. Who knows why that song was in my head? As I hummed, I began to think about…
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Our new President just spoke to the world. He began to reclaim our place in the world. He called on us all to fill ourselves with the spirit of service, to remember who we are as a nation that has withstood worse challenges than we face now and to begin anew the work of remaking…
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Andrew Dlugan at Six Minutes Public Speaking Blog has written a brilliant assessment of Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech. Check it out for excellent ideas on speech writing. This was the speech that was so persuasive that it has endured for decades.
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Lots of people have gifts and talents that are excellent but they don’t shine. They are so full of self-judgment and self-criticism that they can’t experience their brilliance. They don’t shine because they don’t accept their gifts. Instead they place unrealistic expectations of perfection upon themselves. For instance, a technical professional shares her ideas with…
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Thursday evening, I was almost asleep with the TV on when I awoke startled to hear Thomas Friedman speaking to Charli Rose on PBS. Thomas was speaking about the importance of talking to people from a gut level. He mentioned Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton as speakers who impart more than information, as speakers…
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Ever feel stuck? Like you can’t move forward in your life and don’t know why? Fear of feeling is the block that prevents one from going forward in life. A human being is meant to experience life, digest the experience, take the lesson and meaning from the experience and release the negative emotion from each…
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Tim Brown, CEO of Ideo, gave a talk about the relationship of play to creativity. Among his main points he stressed that adults are embarrassed to share their most creative ideas with peers because they are sensitive to critical opinions from others. As a result, most adults only offer their most conservative ideas. In order…
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Almost everyone has heard the term being in the zone. Athletes of all kinds use this term along with the phrase Ideal Performance State, coined by Dr. James E. Loehr of the Human Performance Institute. Within the fields of presentation skills, public speaking and artistic performance, the zone is called presence or being present in…
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In my Telling Stories & Sharing Wisdom speaking class last week, one participant wowed us with a fully fleshed-out talk about what is wrong in America today. He was able to put together ideas and pieces of content that included a story about being with his daughter in a New York restaurant at a table…
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