Month: September 2014

3 Ways Twitter Can Make Your Next Speech Even Better

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All too often when we are starting out a speech we’ll ask our audience to put away their cell phones so that they can pay attention to us. We believe in the importance of public speaking and so we don’t want our audience to be distracted by Facebook and Twitter, we want them to be … Read more

3 Ways To Keep A Distracted Audience’s Attention

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A really good jamming device. That’s what most speakers would like to bring to their next speech. That way their audience couldn’t forget about the importance of public speaking and instead spend their time texting and tweeting instead of listening to them. However, we do live in the 21st Century and so distractions are almost … Read more

Panel Session Checklist

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I don’t know about you, but my life is ruled by checklists. What this means is that once I’ve done something once and figured out the steps that are involved in doing it, I’ll make a checklist so that the next time that I do it I won’t forget anything. As speakers there are times … Read more

Panel Sessions: 3 Ways To Keep Them On Track

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Public speaking takes on many different forms. One of the most challenging types of public speaking that we may be called on is to manage a panel session. Panel sessions are a great way to get experts on some topic together in a single place so that they can share their different views on a … Read more

A 9 Step Cheatsheet for Becoming a Public Speaking Expert

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Cheatsheet for Becoming a Public Speaking Expert Infographic
Cheatsheet for Becoming a Public Speaking Expert Infographic

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Joe Shervell heads an infographic design team that is based in London. One of the things that he does quite well is to take a lot of information and transform it into an easy to understand image. His latest creation has to do with the skills that we all need in order to become better public speakers.

Joe has boiled down content that he’s collected from dozens of books and blog posts, as well as tips from professional public speakers. I personally think that he’s done a great job — his infographic provides a one-stop-shop to consult the next time that you are asked to create a speech.

Check out what Joe has created here: (or check it out online at http://visual.ly/9-step-cheatsheet-becoming-public-speaking-expert)

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