Public Speaking Resources
snog, marry, avoid public speaking?
Public Speaking Avoidance doesn’t help. Actually avoidance is really the problem
10 ways to build trust as a public speaker
As a public speaker, what do you need to do for the audience to trust you more? Eye connection plays a very strong role and that surprises some people. If you don’t get your eyes right you get comments like this when you ask an audience; “You look arrogant”, “You look like you don’t care”, “ You look bored” , “You look rude” and “You look really odd and shifty!”
I then ask: “Do I look less or more confident than I did just a minute ago before I stopped looking at you?”
The answer is always “less confident”
Your relationship to the audience is key. This blog looks at how you can help your audience build trust in you
Just one tip for public speaking?
If reading public speaking tips on blogs worked, we should all be fixed now. Just reading “how to” tips doesn’t change us. So what does? Here is one public speaking tip that is really important.
It’s just me who feels like this! Six myths of public speaking fear
There are lots of wrong beliefs around public speaking. I’d like to challenge six of them. There are many other myths that get in the way but these six are all about anxiety. So many people are stopping themselves living a full life because of this fear.