If you are having difficulties connecting with your audiences, then I am guessing that you are not presenting in a way that makes the audience the hero of your story. Style is important, the ability to present professionally is important, but if you want the audience to be engaged while listening to your presentation, then [...]

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Last night I attended an open speaking event, that wasn’t Toastmasters, where speakers were tasked to give an interesting 5 minute presentation. One of the presentations was a fabulous demonstration of drawing the audience in with an interesting story, making good use of PowerPoint to reinforce spoken points, and dressing to fit the speaker’s speaking [...]

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Many public speaking writers and bloggers (myself included) have the ability to write ad nauseam about the ins and outs of powerpoint, preparing keynote speeches, and how to connect with your audience. Though the understanding how to prepare a slide deck, keynote, or being able to handle an audience is a powerful skill, the rubber [...]

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On December 29th, 2008, I interviewed Marty M. Fahncke of Conference Call University. During the call we discussed ways that conference call presenters can get better at presenting without that audience feedback that you get from live presentations. One technique we discussed was having an audience of Toastmasters in the room while presenting so that [...]

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New speakers often find themselves hitting a wall in their speaking. They start attending Toastmasters club meetings or attend a speaking workshop and see improvements, but at some point they will hit a wall and stop improving as quickly as they did early on in the learning process. Though a slowing of improvement is to [...]

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