Overcoming Speaking Anxiety: Step into your stage fright

Overcoming Speaking Anxiety: Step into your stage fright

Feb. 3, 2010 by

The sensation of stage fright is bad enough, but what’s worse is the damage it can do to your career and your self-esteem. If you let it stop you, your sense of self gets smaller and your stage fright gets bigger

Public Speaking Training: Don’t get too slick

Public Speaking Training: Don’t get too slick

Jan. 16, 2010 by

When does a polished speaker become slick? I ask this question because I occasionally see so-called “professional speakers” behaving in peculiar ways.  They have developed a presentation “style” that doesn’t seem natural, that smacks of late night infomercials and snake

Presentation Skills: Use emotional arguments

Presentation Skills: Use emotional arguments

Dec. 18, 2009 by

Reason makes us think, but emotion makes us act.  So how can we build emotional arguments into our presentations? When we consult Maslow’s Theory, we learn that people have a hierarchy of needs.  At the bottom of the pyramid are