Michelle Mazur
As a speech coach, my job is to cheer my clients on and help them push past their public speaking excuses. The resistance to change inevitably comes up, and I help them gently nudge past. The bottom line is: Do you want to make excuses or do you want to get better? I posed this…
Read MoreDon’t Give a Speech – Create an Experience. If you’re interested in causing the ripples of change to course through the audience, you’ve got to do more than just speak. Some say that the alternative to giving a speech is performing – give ’em a show. Putting those acting chops to good use. Learning the…
Read MoreJason. Freddy. Leatherface. Chuckie. Michael Meyers. Probably not the first names that pop into your head when you think of excellent public speakers, right? Cold-blooded psychopaths plus one creepy doll sure! Public speaking role models – no way. But yes horror movies (including their creepy villains) have 3 vital lessons to teach us about public…
Read MoreOrganizing a presentation is less than a sizzlingly, sexy topic (although I tried to make it fun). However, if you don’t want your audience to get completely lost, you need to pay specific attention to how to organize your speech. Now, there are 2 types of organization in a speech. Fascinating eh? One type is…
Read MoreToday’s guest post comes from Katie Nice a marketing maven, with an obscenely intense public relations background, and a penchant for Coach purses.Ooh…I like Katie already! Starting sales pitches with a simple question can reduce the conversion rate of those pitches by 60 percent or more, according to sales analytics firm Vovici. That single statistic underscores…
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