Writers and Speakers use the same basic building blocks for their craft … but often they use them differently.Unfortunately when we first start out on our speaker’s pathway we sometimes forget that fact, and we sit and carefully craft our words to create the...
When we discuss gestures in our one day public speaking workshop we use a story that highlights the consequences if you don’t use the appropriate gesture for the size of the venue. Now as this story revolves around an incident in my business partner’s life I...
This was a question I was asked recently, and my questioner had statistics that were said to prove that body language did not add any real or additional message to the words. “I do a great deal of my work on the telephone†she added triumphantly, “and you...
Traveling to Cooroy this evening in preparation for a training session tomorrow it struck me that it was a very good idea that we knew where we were going. This occurred around about the time I passed the turn off for Cooroy and started looking for the road leading to...
There is an old saying: â€A journey of a thousand miles begins with that first step.â€Well my journey began many years ago when I took my first step to conquer my fear of public speaking. It has been a journey fraught with many highs and some lows; and it is a...
