If you are in customer service in any capacity, you can benefit from learning to develop or enhance your speaking skills. If you are an employer, your business might benefit from allowing/encouraging your staff to attend weekly meetings where they will have the opportunity to learn and practice some of the following: how to organize…
Fifty Basic Quick Tips for Speakers Do both you and your audience dread every time you make a speech? Are speeches an awful chore that you avoid like a plague? Do your speeches evoke yawns rather than enthusiasm? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be in trouble. What is the…
This is a question that I have been considering over the past week as I began my studying with Mark Hendricks and the Ultimate Success Program. Mark’s goal is to help me (and everyone else) change my mindset from lack to prosperity. He had us begin by listing all the ways we have been successful…
Five Tips for Commencement Speeches Toastmasters International offers advice to graduation speakers Toastmasters International, which has helped millions of men and women learn to speak with confidence and poise in front of audiences, offers five pointers for a great commencement speech: Keep it Brief. Limit the speech to a maximum of 20 minutes. Both the…
Toastmasters helps you deliver better Business Presentations Every day, employees of various companies around the world find themselves in career-defining speaking situations. Presentations like these often involve high stakes and are presented to busy people with the power to influence careers. Different business presentations can make or break your career. The technical briefing, a straightforward…
How to Become an Ideal Leader When you are at work, do you get frustrated because things don’t seem to be happening the way they’re supposed to? Do you see people milling around but nothing gets accomplished? And in the daily hustle and bustle, do you feel that your goals remain just that – goals?…
Deadly Sin #7: Pride Andrew Dlugan, sixminutes.dlugan.com Pride is committed by a speaker who believes that public speaking is about them. It’s not. It’s never about you. It’s never about your impressive accolades in your introduction. It’s never about your dazzling delivery where you channel Churchill. It’s never about your sumptuous…
Have you ever given a speech that ran over time? Deadly Sin #4: Gluttony by Andrew Dlugan sixminutes.dlugan.com Gluttony is exhibited by speakers who believe that more is always better. More slides, more bullets, more examples, more facts, more numbers, more details, more words — more of everything. Packing all possible material into your presentation…
Deadly Sin #2: Envy From Andrew Dlugan – SixMinutes.dlugan.com Envy is characterized by a false belief that great speakers are simply lucky to have been born with natural speaking skills. You’ve heard the excuses from your colleagues, haven’t you? “She’s so lucky! She’s a natural speaker!” “Hmph! It’s so easy for him to…
from Andrew Dlugan sixminutes.dlugan.com Deadly Sin #1: Sloth Sloth, or laziness, is committed by speakers who fail to prepare. Speaking in public, whether formally or informally, is an essential activity that requires effort. Yet, the majority of people expend no effort to improve their effectiveness as a speaker. Tragically, they are content to drift from…