English speaking skills: Become a memory champion
English speaking skills: Become a memory champion You’ve heard this great advice for doing an excellent presentation: Memorize the first several minutes and the last several minutes. How to do that, you ask? Under the pressure of the need to perform, you just know your mind will go blank. What to do? The answer– […]
Success
Success Research by the American Society for Training and Development concluded that “the only thing that ranks above communication skills as a factor in workplace success is job knowledge.”
English Speaking Skills: Overlearning–You’ll Love the Results
English Speaking Skills: Overlearning–You’ll Love the Results You’ve heard it: It takes 1000 times of doing a pattern to make a mental trace. And it takes 10,000 times of doing a pattern to make a habit. “Why do I have to keep practicing? I already have the skill?” Such is the protest from all of […]
We Remember
We Remember We remember: 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both see and hear
English Speaking Training: The Fragile Nature of Intelligence
English Speaking Training: The Fragile Nature of Intelligence I’ve felt it. You have probably felt it, too. You feel especially smart and funny when talking to one person and then feel unintelligent and unable to speak fluently with another. It’s not your imagination. Experiments show that when people report feeling comfortable with a conversational partner, […]
The Power of Speaking
The Power of Speaking Ponder this gem: If all my talents and powers were to be taken from me by some inscrutable Providence, and I had my choice of keeping but one, I would unhesitatingly ask to be allowed to keep the Power of Speaking, […]
English Speaking Training: Understand that Strange Spelling
English Speaking Training: Understand that Strange Spelling Did you ever wonder why some words in English have such strange spelling? For accurate pronunciation of many words, you say the consonants loud and clear using the positioning for English, not for other languages. And for most words, using the English spelling rules for vowels, you can […]
Anxious?
Anxious? Most important strategy: Preparation My personal favorite: Rehearse out loud My newly found tip: Arrive one hour early and meet and greet people at the door.
Public Speaking Training: Great Exercises for Coping With Stress
Public Speaking Training: Great Exercises for Coping With Stress Here are some of my favorite “coping with stress” exercises. For some people, anxiety is a problem whenever they do presentations. Are you like many people and also feel stressed out during your daily work or academic life? These exercises are good training in your […]
Breath Pauses
Breath Pauses One of my favorite strategies is to mark breath pauses in your narrative for a presentation. Many people, especially nonnative speakers of English, polish their presentation by writing it out their script or narrative. Many people forget to include pauses. Listeners need the pauses to process what you are saying. Marking your copy […]