By Allan Kaufman and Allan Misch All eyes are upon you. Tension fills the air. Your audience awaits your first words. So what should you do? You cut the tension and “break the ice” confidently and powerfully—you grab your audience’s attention, get them leaning forward with anticipation, and make them feel that they’re going to [...]

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by Allan Misch Author Frances Moore Lappé said, “I’ve grown certain that the root of all fear is that we’ve been forced to deny who we are.” Before you can hope to eliminate your dread, you must first accept that you have public speaking fear. That’s a given. Then, you can begin to shift your [...]

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by Allan Misch Often, anxious presenters don’t look at their audiences. They look at their notes, the ceiling, or the back wall. If they do glance at their audiences, it’s usually in a quick scanning pattern. Actually, looking at your entire audience with a quick scan, or looking at several in the audience at one [...]

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By Allan Misch Master the following presentation skills and you will increase substantially your odds of giving successful presentations. Strategy #1: Speak with Your Mouth and Your Eyes When speaking, the more sensory channels you use, the more effective you’ll be at reaching your audience. So don’t speak with just your mouth. Use your body [...]

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by Allan Misch WIIFM is not the call letters for a radio station, the key to a secret code, or an acronym for a new government agency. It’s a question that’s in the minds of every audience. The question? “What’s in it for me?” The answer to the question is in your program content. The [...]

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by Allan Kaufman and Allan Misch As we noted in parts 1 through 3, a presentation needs to accomplish two broad goals. First, it must give your audience what they need. Second, it must leave your audience with a favorable impression of you. So avoid the Ten Biggest Public Speaking Mistakes that prevent you from [...]

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by Allan Kaufman and Allan Misch As we noted in our last post, a presentation needs to accomplish two broad goals. First, it must give your audience what they need. Second, it must leave your audience with a favorable impression of you. So avoid the Ten Biggest Public Speaking Mistakes that prevent you from achieving [...]

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