Now we turn to a new subject, as these three components of the Visual, the Vocal, and the Verbal -- “The 3 V’s” -- represent the 3 pillars which hold up what we might describe as the temple of communication. Bearing in mind that the impact of a person’s gestures and sounds carry far more [...]
WRITING & SPEAKING INVOCATION: (TO BE SPOKEN OUT LOUD, WHILE READING THESE WORDS, UNTIL YOU COMMIT THEM TO MEMORY) For best results, read the words in bold italics OUT LOUD just before sitting down to write or deliver a presentation. Ideally, put on your most inspiring music in the background while reading these words [...]
Finding Empowerment Through Letting Go Do you ever find yourself feeling caged like a bird, wings beating against the bars of a situation that you can’t see a way out of? Most people will experience feeling trapped or disempowered at different stages of their lives, and it’s often hard to know what to do about [...]
Thank you for reading and for working with me, so you are more able to hear your own true voice. Speak. Speak to it. Let us now look deeper into the related principles of “Mastering” your presentation. By “mastering” I am referring to the way you present yourself when you match up the verbal and [...]
Bill owned a car dealership in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He was also active in a number of civic associations and did lots of media performances and presentations. He saw an article on my presentation coaching in the local newspaper and called me up. As a result, I began to work with him. He had a [...]
How to unlock your true self and speak from the heart on all stages of your life? The “Double Extreme” technique. Here's an example of how I've used this tool myself. I was asked to be the featured speaker for a combined group of Toastmaster clubs on the East Coast of the United States. In [...]
Next time you are at work, when you are alone with yourself for a moment, feel what it is like to embrace silence for roughly ten seconds. Silence... Sometimes making contact is even more engaging in the silence than in speaking, having to put on a show. Many of us are completely untrained in this. [...]
Something remarkable happened with me this morning at the end of my movement meditation class: I was speaking with a woman who was telling me she presents to large groups of women all around the world. Somehow, she felt like telling me how it was that she made a breakthrough 20 years ago when she [...]
Today I attended a sales & marketing Superconference in my home town of Melbourne - with a wealth of inspiring speakers and presenters from all over the world. During one of the breaks in a small circle of peers, a developing speaker asked me: "What tips can you give me, I don't get up much [...]
Developing Presence in Public Speaking And In Life Presence is that hard-to-define quality that engages and inspires other people. A powerful and admired actor, musician or dancer, for example, is often said to have “strong stage presence”, to define the way we always have a sense of where they are and who they are in [...]