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Preparation- The Key to Drive Away Anxiety

Preparation- The Key to Drive Away Anxiety The three most important words for decreasing anxiety for a presentation is “Preparation, Preparation, Preparation.” Prepare your talk, outline it, write it out, make notes, immerse yourself in the materials.  Rehearse it aloud until you are sick of it.  Then do it one more time.     Rerun […]

Death of Fear

 Death of Fear Seek opportunities to speak. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Do the thing you fear to do and the death of that fear is certain.”     Rerun from April 14, 2016

Special Tips for Using Quotes to Communicate the Judgment of Experts

Special Tips for Using Quotes to Communicate the Judgment of Experts For best results for using  the judgment of experts as evidence to support your viewpoint or recommendation: Explain expert’s credential if not known to listeners (Example: renown physicist) Use short quotes Putting quotes on projected slides increases their power       Rerun from […]

Accent Reduction: The Twenty Most Predominantly Spoken Languages

Accent Reduction: The Twenty Most Predominantly Spoken Languages We are all part of this vast globe.  We are approximately seven billion people.  We conduct our lives in one or several of about seven thousand languages. The mother tongue of more than three billion people is one of twenty.  In order of their predominance: Mandarin Chinese […]

Use the Power of Analogy as Evidence In Presentations

Use the Power of Analogy as Evidence In Presentations Whenever you can, use analogies to support the points you are making.  People remember vivid mental images longer than they remember words. Rerun from April 4, 2016

Accent Reduction- Get Inspired to Master These English Speech Sounds

Accent Reduction- Get Inspired to Master These English Speech Sounds Here is some information about the English language which will give you inspiration for mastering particular sounds: The most frequently spoken consonant is “n.” The “e” is the most commonly used letter in the English language. Furthermore, as many as one in eight of all […]

Presentations: Get and Use These Five Kinds of Evidence

Presentations: Get and Use These Five Kinds of Evidence To support or back up your viewpoint or recommendations, use these 5 kinds of evidence: Personal experience or story Analogy Judgment of Experts Examples Statistical Facts     Rerun from March 28, 2016