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 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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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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Allan Misch Many years ago, I went with a friend to a ski resort for a week to learn how to ski. I signed up for five basic lessons. I asked my friend if he was going to take any lessons. He said, “No. I’ve been skiing for 10 years. I don’t need any lessons.” [...]

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by Allan Misch Someone once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” So if you’re dissatisfied with how you feel and the results you get when you give a presentation, then you must change what you do. You must do something different. Face [...]

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