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5 Secrets to Mastering Successful Speech [Ian's Messy Desk]
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Knowing how to speak well can benefit you more than you can imagine: speaking well during an interview gets you the job; presenting well to the board gets funding for your project; the right words to your partner or family deepens relationships. Every role in your life succeeds with effective speaking.
Here are [...]
5 Keys that will Help People Remember Your Presentation [Ian's Messy Desk]
Talk about their problems and needs.
Make your first and last impressions the strongest.
Start with an overview before moving the detail.
Engage as many senses as possible.
Look for and respond to audience feedback.
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10 Steps For A Successful Speech [Ian's Messy Desk]
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By Jacki Rose, a professional speaker, presentation skills trainer and public speaking coach. For more articles on presentation skills visit her website at: http://www.JackiRose.com
Speaking gives you visibility, but does it give you credibility?
So you’re not a professional speaker. That’s no excuse for NOT giving a professional presentation.
You have a great product or service!
You’ve [...]
The 5th Habit of Highly Effective People [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
Welcome to part seven of the series on how to implement the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People in a Getting Things Done-style system. This series of posts will guide you through the stages of personal implementation over several weeks. This will give you a chance to focus on each new habit in your life [...]
8 Simple Ways to Encourage Others [Ian's Messy Desk]
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Take an interest. I believe this is one of the most effective ways of encouraging others. Show that you’re interested in what they’re doing. Get them talking. People like to talk about themselves and once you get them talking, you fire up their enthusiasm.
Acknowledge what’s important. When you acknowledge what’s important to another, you provide validation [...]
How to Write a Eulogy [Ian's Messy Desk]
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I attended a funeral last week for a woman who had lived a good, long life. There were two eulogies given, one be a long-time friend and the other from a family member. It was interesting to hear the similar themes that came out as they spoke of someone who had played an [...]
10 Steps for Practicing A Speech [Ian's Messy Desk]
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If you’re like me, when preparing to speak, the temptation is to read through the outline a couple of times and figure I’m all set for the delivery. Unfortunately, this rarely works. If I don’t practice my speech aloud, several times, I’m not going to do my best when giving the speech.
There is a gulf between knowing how to deliver [...]
10 Tips for Giving a Great Speech [Ian's Messy Desk]
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Speak from the heart. What you say and how you say it are important, but why you say it is even more important. When you speak from your own conviction, you improve the possibility that your listeners will accept what you’re saying.
Have specific objectives for the speech. An objective should target behaviour or [...]
Keeping speakers from going overtime at conferences [Ian's Messy Desk]
One of my pet peeves, when attending conferences, is the speaker(s) who go past their allotted time and eat into the next presenter’s session. I wish David Gurteen chaired all the conferences I attend. He sees it to be the chairperson’s responsibility to keep speakers on time.
To my mind, the responsibility for keeping the speakers [...]
4 Basic Types of Speeches [Ian's Messy Desk]
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The four basic types of speeches are: to inform, to instruct, to entertain, and to persuade. These are not mutually exclusive of one another. You may have several purposes in mind when giving your presentation. For example, you may try to inform in an entertaining style. Another speaker might inform the audience and try to persuade them to act [...]