2 secrets of fast-track your learning
Look at the best people in any field, each of them have mentors and coaches, in fact more than one mentor or coaches. When the mentee has achieved the level of his or her mentor, the mentor will introduce to him people of a higher standard. For a mentor or coach to work in full power, the mentee must respect and trust their mentor and coach. Get a Mentor: A mentor is someone who has achieved the...
Read More3 Tools to Understand Your Audience Better
These are 3 common personality tests which you can use to understand yourself better and your audience better. You will be able to learn to spot someone’s personality without the test. Once you spent some time learning these models, you will discover it is pretty easy to read your audience personality. The links are some free test you can do online and understand you better. DISC: The...
Read More4 Questions You Must Ask When You Tell Your Story
It doesn’t matter what precisely your audience picture in their minds as long as they are picturing your story. Here are some of the questions and examples that you could put into your story to make them picture. A recommendation by World Champion of Public Speaking 1999 Craig Valentine; Visual: What do your audience see? Put in descriptive words that make your audience picture visually...
Read More5 ways to get your audience think about you before you even speak
You are only given so much time on stage, but how can we Video:Send a video (2-3mins) to your audience a few days before the event. If they have a Facebook fan page post it on their wall with their organizer’s permission. The video could your previous speech or a short trailer about your upcoming speech.What is the content of your video would record for your next speech? Signages:Prepare your...
Read More6 speeches you must watch and study
As a student of Public Speaking, we must continuously learn from mentors and professional speakers. Here are 6 world class speeches that you should watch and learn. I have watched them over and over again. Any Given Sunday by Al Pacino http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4tIrjBDkk 2005 Stanford Commencement Address by Steve Jobs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc The Last Lecture by Dr...
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