Public speaking is communication. You’re like a guide, leading your audience through a jungle of information. If any of your audience members stumble with something you’ve said, they may get left behind. Communicate poorly enough and you may even lose members of your audience altogether. Communicate effectively with your audience and you lead them to […]
What a gorgeous day it is! I can bet that meetings, presentations and all office activity across England will be slightly reduced today as people gaze out of the window, suffer malfunctioning air-conditioning and decide to take a long lunch break outside for once. When you’re presenting and you know that there’s something else that
Seth Godin wrote here about taking the initiative when meeting new people. Have a read, it’s good stuff (as always). The fear of being rejected when encountering new people is completely normal, and when you’re stepping out to do public speaking in front of a group of strangers, it’s natural to want to run (or perhaps walk
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Watch this very funny man. He’s called Sean Lock. Unlike Milton Jones, a naive character (see my post ‘Look and Learn‘), Sean Lock is the man-in-the-street, challenging conventional thinking. This is a very important aspect of the stand-up’s role; obviously the first is to entertain, but there’s a great opportunity – and one might argue, a
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I did stand-up comedy for about ten years part-time, and then went full-time for over two years. During that time I met a lot of very unusual people: some smart, some deluded, some needy, many very talented. Here’s the secret: We were a bunch of weirdos, but we’d managed to find something we were good
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