What makes you tick?What makes you uncomfortable?What do you love?Why are you speaking? Share some or all of these things in the first minute and you’ll create a connection with your audience. Good communication is all about rapport, empathy, relatability, authenticity, humility, and humour. Stand-up comics often start with the most important thing people need […]
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Standing behind a microphone in front of an audience can feel intimidating and very disconcerting. There’s the build-up, the pressure of expectation, and the theatre of the whole thing; a stage, a host, there may even be bright lights. Your instinct tells you that this is a dangerous situation, and that’s completely normal – you
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‘Oh, just be yourself’. You may have been given this advice by a well-meaning friend or colleague when you told them how nervous you were when preparing for a talk. It may seem facile or naive, but I believe it’s actually your best strategy. The scariest one perhaps, but certainly the most effective, because speaking
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The Problem “You f—ing idiot.” This morning I banged my elbow on a doorframe. My response? Negative self-talk. The insidious problem I (and many other British people, I imagine) deal with every day. And why do we habitually and instinctively putting ourselves down? Because we’ve done it for so long that it’s become ingrained; we
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this is the bit that will transform your process and help you create concise, inspiring material instead of something bloated and run-of-the-mill.
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