Developing Confidence in Speaking

ACQUIRING CONFIDENCE BEFORE AN AUDIENCE Students of public speaking continually ask, “How can I overcome self-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before an audience?” Did you ever notice in looking from a train window that some horses feed near the track and never even pause to look up at the thundering cars, while just…

How Do You Listen?

We were given two ears and one mouth.  That means we should spend twice as much time listening as talking.  If we truly listen, we listen to understand.  When we listen to understand, we pay attention to the way the words are said as well as the words that are being said.  This is called…