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 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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by Allan Kaufman, DTM and Allan Misch, DTM 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 those goals. The ten biggest [...]

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Allan Kaufman, DTM When you give a presentation, one of your goals is to give your audience what they need. Your other goal is to leave your audience with a favorable impression of you. So avoid the ten mistakes that will prevent you from achieving those goals. The Ten Biggest Public Speaking Mistakes are: 1. [...]

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Allan Misch The American Physicist Albert Einstein said, “If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.” Einstein was the model of right brain and left brain balance, which equals creativity. He enjoyed music and fantasy, and [...]

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by Allan Misch ©Allan Misch – All rights reserved. http://www.nosweatspeaking.com I’m the president of my CRS club. CRS — that’s Can’t Remember Stuff. I don’t know about you, but when I hear or read a funny story or joke, if I don’t write it down, I don’t remember it. And it gets worse as I [...]

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