Where Should Your Hands Be?
Where Should Your Hands Be? 1. Where should your hands be? When you begin, they should hang naturally by your body. Then they should describe and emphasize what you are saying. 2. Ideally, you should gesture with one hand at a time. When you move both you waste energy without getting any […]
English communication skills- Networking is Communicating and Connecting
English communication skills- Networking is Communicating and Connecting It is all about relationships, connecting. Networking is another term for that lifelong process of meeting people, making contacts, developing friendships and building professional relationships. It is in the communicating where networking happens. The skill of networking involves learning how and when to approach people, how and […]
How Do You as a Speaker Impact an Audience?
How Do You as a Speaker Impact an Audience? How you look includes your clothes, your facial expression, your stance, your body movement, your hands, how you move your eyes. Suppose you are trying to motivate a group, and you tell them something is “a wonderful opportunity,” but you don’t look or sound it. Vision is […]
English communication skills- Networking- Relationships- Power of Sending Notes for Praise and Thanks
English communication skills- Networking- Relationships- Power of Sending Notes for Praise and Thanks Amazing how it is often the little things in life that touch us. Sending notes is one of those little things that means a lot. It can be email. It can be handwritten. Handwritten is a wow these days. For the recipient- […]
End Your Presentation With A Bang
End Your Presentation With A Bang The end of a presentation, especially at a luncheon, needs to feel like dessert – sweet and satisfying. Show your enthusiasm through lively gestures, facial expressions, and speech volume. Restate your viewpoint. Send them back to work with a lift. Rerun from Aug 8, 2016
English communication skills- Networking- Relationships- Power of Praise and Thanks
English communication skills- Networking- Relationships- Power of Praise and Thanks Dear all– Thanksgiving in the USA comes on the last Thursday in the month of November. And… it is soooo good to thank people around us for all that they do– every day, not just on national holidays of Thanksgiving, whether in the USA or […]
Grab Audience Attention with Shocker Sentence
Grab Audience Attention with Shocker Sentence Use this very effective way to get attention of an audience, especially at a luncheon. Make a statement that surprises, startles, or challenges them. Example: “The organization is going to change in ways you can hardly imagine over the next six months.” Here are the three rules to make […]
Accent Reduction – Habit Success – The Other Secret is Forgive Yourself
Accent Reduction – Habit Success – The Other Secret is Forgive Yourself You are going to fail sometimes. That’s okay, Richard Wiseman studied people who achieved their goals. From those investigations, he realized we should: Expect to go back to your old habits sometimes. Treat that failure as a temporary set-back, and go forward. What […]
How to Tell a Story
How to Tell a Story Start at a point in time. Remember, the most memorable stories in any culture start with some variation of “once upon a time” the same way a fairy tale begins. Don’t explain the story. Re-create it the way it happened. Use dialogue. Add rich detail so the audience sees what […]
Accent Reduction – The Secret of “If” and “Then”
Accent Reduction – The Secret of “If” and “Then” Plans are good. And with a super simple plan, you can resist temptation to fall back to your old habit. When do you always perform that bad habit? Example: “Whenever I am with another person, I interrupt them before they are finished talking.” Yes. OK. Now […]