7 Tips to Overcome Your Public Speaking Fears
Many people I meet are keen to do more networking to generate new business – however, often their fear of standing up and presenting about what their business does causes such nervousness that it prohibits them from getting involved. At our BNI Networking meetings throughout London all members are given the opportunity of sharing a [...]
How much are you really worth?
Did you know that speaking in public is one of the top 3 fears in the world? Top 3 – can you believe it? Speaking in Public, Death and Spiders! In an effort to help myself overcome this fear, I learned a tremendous lesson that caused my butterflies to fly in formation, instead of leading [...]
Capture audience attention with your power point headlines
You know the old public speaking adage: ‘tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them’. You experience this on the news every night; first the headlines, then the news item and finally a summary of the news headlines. They do this because it works. So why [...]
Employability Skills
It’s a tough market out there at the moment. Writing your CV and selling your self at interview are challenges. However it’s important to think about what employers are looking for. Job readiness skills are clustered intothree skill sets: basic academic skills, higher order thinking skills, personal qualities. Employability skills are those basic skills necessary for getting, [...]
Women using humour: does it work for public speaking?
After the recent and somewhat controversial post on here about women and humour, I said I would follow up with some thoughts culled from one of my books (Wedding Speeches For Women) on the differences in the ways women can use humour effectively – as opposed to how men do it. In that earlier post [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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