Free Articles on Public Speaking and Communication Skills
Sandra Zimmer provides these articles related to public speaking, presentation skill training, communication training and overcoming fear of public speaking or stage fright. You are welcome to share these articles provided you include the name and contact information supplied with each article.
How to Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking in 6 Mostly Easy Steps
My Method to speaking in public focuses on transforming people who have a fear of public speaking into much more confident speakers. My clients are primarily business professionals who are good, often brilliant, at what they do, but who just aren’t comfortable sharing their ideas, insights and expertise in front of groups. Read more…
Gravitas for Men and Women Leaders
Gravitas is an attitude, character trait and self-expression skill that is deliberate, compels attention and commands respect from others. You naturally exude gravitas when you give weight or importance to anything you do. When you know that your ideas, words and actions are important, others perceive your importance and naturally value your contributions more. Read more…
How I Prepare Professionals to Interview for Leadership Positions
How I prepare professionals to interview for leadership positions is different from preparing young people to interview for entry level jobs. I stumbled on my interview coaching process for leaders when I started coaching people who had many years of experience and who wanted to advance to more senior levels of responsibility. Read more…
Being the Tiny Bell that Guides Others
I heard this story…Two horses grazed peacefully in a pasture. Upon closer look, you could see that one horse was blind. The other, a chestnut mare, wore a tiny bell around her neck. The bell was there to let the blind horse know where the mare was at all times. The horse’s owner had chosen not to put the blind horse down, but rather to let him live his best life with the assistance of the chestnut mare. Every morning and evening, the blind horse could follow the mare to and from the barn. The blind horse only had to listen and follow the tiny bell that the mare was wearing. The mare did not have to do anything special. She just had to be herself. Her presence and the tiny bell was enough to guide the blind horse in day to day life. Read more…
The Zimmer Method can Help You Hack the Flow State for Public Speaking
Public speakers can “hack” the flow state, that is, get into a state of presence if we understand the stages of the flow process and have the courage to use our natural fear and anxiety to catch the flow cycle. Twenty-five years ago, I developed a process that I intuitively knew could help speakers transform stage fright and fear of public speaking and, even more, to help them get into the state of presence while speaking. After much success and a quarter century of hands-on research guiding thousands of people to transform stage fright, I am thrilled that science is finally giving me scientific data to back-up my intuitive process. My main resource for what I am about to share comes from Steven Kotler’s book The Rise of Superman. Read more…
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