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 […]
English Communication- Get Best Body Language for Face-to-Face Communication (and Interviews)
English Communication- Get Best Body Language for Face-to-Face Communication (and Interviews) What’s the most important body language during face to face communication – especially job interviews? You have a core feeling about how important the communication of your body is to the other person. Here are some body language tips to give you the confidence […]
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
English Communication: Change in the World’s 7000 Languages and What Happens When Languages Die
English Communication: Change in the World’s 7000 Languages and What Happens When Languages Die Here’s some more information about the world’s current 7000 languages – information all communicating human beings should know. English is the lingua franca of our digital age. Those who use it as a second language may outnumber its native speakers by […]
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
English Communication: Get More of Backstory for Those Unusual Spellings of English Words
English Communication: Get More of Backstory for Those Unusual Spellings of English Words Does understanding how changes came about in the English language make the pronunciation and spelling easier for you? Yes! It gives you the patterns for whole sets of words. And, oh my! … the reasons for changes in the English language are […]