Common Mistakes

How To Effectively Use Pauses During Your Public Speech (Ep28)

Using pauses during a public speech or presentation is an important way to engage the audience and to deliver your message effectively. A lot of us fail to use pauses in the right manner and therefore we throw our audience off and lose their engagement throughout the presentation. Pausing is something that we hate to …

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How To Create Memorable Public Speech Openings (Ep25)

If you want to create a great public speech then you need to nail the opening. The opening will cause your audience to either listen in to what you have to say or to pull out their phone and start browsing through Facebook. Your opening is so important. You want to create an opening that shocks …

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How To Get Over The Worst Public Speech Ever

What was the worst speech you’ve ever delivered and how did you get over it? We all have the time in our lives that we deliver a speech that floundered, that fails, that is absolutely horrible. Let me tell you the story of mine. [youtube id=”RcLVVlJp1Bg” mode=”normal” align=”center”] Mine happened when I was 14 and I …

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Why Public Speaking Opening Jokes (Almost) Always Fail

[youtube id=”i_Jf__jKyIk” mode=”normal” align=”center”] Imagine the most non-funny persons you know. That boring person who sits in the corner never says anything interesting and just has no excitement about them at all. Now imagine that person came to you and say: “I am going to become a professional comedian. What do you think, hey?” You …

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10 Public Speaking Ice Breakers That Actually Work

An icebreaker is an activity in public speaking that is designed to engage the audience and break the ice to get them ready to hear what you’re about to say. However, many of the icebreakers out there that the internet sites recommend are pretty average at best and in most cases downright awkward to use. …

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