Public speaking is cool

Tell me. How often do you listen to a speech or a presentation? Based on your experience, did you notice that some speech or presentation had a great impact on you while the others did not? Did you feel that some of the speakers need to improve their presentations in some way? Did it ever cross your mind that some of the speakers or presenters may have made some mistakes during their presentations? Well sometimes, a speaker was so excited to give a speech or deliver a presentation and overlooked some important details. Thus, mistakes happened. Here are 3 common mistakes (you may have witnessed) speakers made when giving a speech or a presentation. 1) Speaker had lack of connection with the audience . One big mistake that a speaker could have done was neglecting the need to connect with the audience. There was no effort in trying to get to know the audience. Before the speech presentation, a speaker made a mistake by not finding out the necessary information...

Are you one of those people who hide behind your colleague to avoid giving a speech or presentation at all cost? Deep in your heart, you want to do it but you have lack of confidence? You don’t think you should? You don’t believe you are able to do it? So how do you overcome these uncertain feelings? How can you develop your confidence to speak? Do you still have a chance? Or forever hold your peace? Don’t worry. Of course you still have a chance. But before that, first you need to evaluate yourself. Find out why you have lack of confidence to speak. Is it because… -   You are afraid of making mistakes and embarrass yourself? -     You are lack of skills? -     You are a perfectionist? -   You think too much about what other people might think? Once you have identified the reasons for your lack of confidence, let us take a look at some ways to develop your confidence to speak. 1) Have a positive mindse...

Having a hard time staying awake? Saturday. 9AM. Conference room. You are ready for the big day. You are going to be the speaker for the conference. The microphone is ready. The audience are all sitting in their seats. You feel energise and excited. You begin to speak. Everything is going well. After a while, you start to notice something. Some of your audience are dreaming away. Some of them are looking at their phones. And some of them are chatting with one another?  What is happening? You audience are not giving you their full attention. As a speaker, have you ever experienced this before? Have you ever wonder why your audience did not give their undivided attention to you when you speak? The truth is you can’t force people to listen to you if they refuse to listen to you. Yes, that does sound pretty confusing but I’m sure you know what I mean. However, there are ways to get their attention. In order to do that, there are seven (7) things you need t...

What do you do for a living? Are you a doctor? A sales person? A computer analyst? A human resource manager? An actor? An athlete? A teacher? A scientist? Or are you a chef? No matter what kind of job that you do and which line of work you are in, there will come a time when you are required to speak in front of people; a small or a large audience. Maybe you need to speak because your job requires you to do so or due to certain unexpected situation at work. Well, life is full of surprises! But doing public speaking on the job is not only about finishing a task. Do you know what public speaking can actually do for your career? Do you want to know how public speaking skills can help your career? 1) Public speaking skills make your job a lot easier and help to get the job done . Presentation…presentation…presentation. Yes. It is music to your ears, right? For some jobs, conducting a presentation is a daily task. If you are one of the luckier ones, you may o...