Posts Tagged ‘public speaking’
7 Surefire Strategies to Capture and Hold Your Audience’s Attention
by Sarah Warlick, content director As anyone who’s done any public speaking roles knows, it’s critical to gain the attention of your listeners in the initial few moments of your presentation. According to Darlene Price, author of Well Said! Presentations and Conversations That Get Results and president of Well Said, Inc., you have 60…
Read MoreI Know You Have Something to Say…
by Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk, president As some of you know, I have been doing a good deal of speaking lately. While I still get nervous beforehand, it’s not paralyzing like it used to be. It’s truly an honor to be asked to share my knowledge with a group – one that I do not…
Read MoreShyness: The Career Killer
From time to time we ask partners to share their expertise via guest posts, and here is one that we thought would be particularly interesting to our readers. I can say from personal experience that the folks at Executive Speak Write are incredibly talented and can take even the biggest case of stage fright…
Read MoreKnow Your Audience – And Certainly Don’t Annoy Them!
by Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk, president I have quite a few speaking engagements coming up about which I’m very excited, so I’m always looking for opportunities to see others in action, the better to hone my craft. Additionally, I am fascinated by communication styles and issues, differences in the way each generation is wired, how we…
Read MoreSpeak Up!
So now, I’m doing this quite a bit of public speaking. In fact, in the last seven days, I’ve spoken three times before various groups. And the most surprising thing of all is I have grown to love it. It’s fun sharing what I know with people, and hearing their thoughts and ideas. I enjoy helping those in my audience grasp the concepts of marketing plans and social media. It’s a real boost to see attendees start to realize that marketing is a process and something they can and should do. It’s quite a high for me now. So, in case there are others of you out there that hate speaking in public, but know you need to do it, I have a few tips that may help you.
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