If you’ve ever been in a social situation where you feel like nobody can hear what you’re trying to say over the loud conversation happening in the background, you know how annoying it can feel. Especially if you’re someone who has a naturally quiet voice, getting yourself heard can be quite a difficult feat to […]
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Coffee is considered the most popular hot beverage in the world. Weighing the positive and negative effects of drinking it on our bodies is something that has the potential to divide a room. Mind you, coffee lovers are fierce about their preferences! Drinking coffee before a speech or presentation is quite normal especially if you’re
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Should I stand at a fixed spot or walk when presenting on stage? If a speaker is glued to the spot or keeps pacing the stage throughout the speech, the audience gets distracted and infer that the presenter is probably nervous. Hence, keeping a balance between moving and momentarily standing is the key. But you
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Do you remember all the speech writing lessons you had in school? Well, most of these lessons missed out on an important chapter- Monroe’s Motivated Sequence. Monroe’s Motivated Sequence is a five-step organizational framework that acts as a guiding line for writing a persuasive speech. It organizes the content of a persuasive speech and helps
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“So what did you do last weekend?” my coworker asked me to which I excitedly responded, “I attended my first Toastmasters meeting!” She looked at me and said, “You are such a nerd!” It has been 4 ½ years since I first walked into the mini-auditorium of a condominium building to a group of strangers
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What are closing remarks? A closing remark is the last sentence, paragraph or concluding part of your speech or presentation. They are also referred to as ‘concluding remarks’. In a speech/presentation, the outset and the conclusion are 2 essentials. It leaves an impact on the audience and makes your speech/presentation eloquent. We have written an
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Everyone knows how to talk, but only a few know how to speak. The words, however clichéd they might sound, are true. As is the fact that, even if you know how to speak, no one’s really going to recognize it unless you manage to spark enough interest to make them actually listen to your speech. Listen to. Not hear.
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Being able to deliver a powerful, convincing, and impactful presentation is crucial to any aspiring presenter. Presentations have the ability to change the hearts and minds of those listening. However, the risk is that if your presentation is boring, you could alienate the very audience you are trying to convince. Several factors make presentations dull
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I am certain all of us have come across powerful speeches, novels, or presentations that left us speechless at some point. But have you wondered how the speaker or the author managed to do so? How did they manage to make almost everyone in the audience riveted? You might have attributed this skill of captivating
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Does the sight of going on stage and speaking to a crowd make you anxious? Does it make you feel numb? To be honest, we all have been there at some point in our lives, especially during our school lives. Public speaking anxiety is ranked above the fear of death. Surprisingly? Isn’t it?! Almost 77%
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