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May 2004 |
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Cast Your Vote For President.
Is Bush or Kerry the Better Speaker? |
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Presidential
candidates tend to be pretty good speakers. And with the
campaign for President upon us, we’re interested in hearing
from you on who you think is the better speaker of the two
candidates. You can cast your vote on the
Speechworks website.
While you
can use any criteria you want, we suggest judging the
candidates in several areas.
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Want to Come Across Like a News Anchor? Get Help From
Those Adjustable Chairs. |
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You can learn a lot about meeting presence from
the chair of a news anchor. You read that
right. Next time you’re in a news studio, check
out the actual chair where the anchor sits.
The chairs are funny things that the viewer
never sees but have a big impact on the anchor’s
presence. The chairs have no backs. Instead,
they are shaped to cup the anchor’s rear end and
push him up and forward, so that if he tried to
lean back he would fall off the seat. |
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Oprah May Have Special Gifts as a Speaker. But She Honed
Those Gifts with Practice. |
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Ever wonder
how Oprah became such a great communicator? It wasn’t by
accident.
"I’ve been an
orator really, basically all of my life," she said. "Since I was three
and a half, I’ve been coming up in the church speaking . . . .
I’ve spoken at every church in Nashville at some point in my
life. You sort of get known for that. Other people were
known for singing. I was known for talking.” |
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For
Eye Contact with Big Groups, Rely on the "Eye Contact Paradox". |
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Ever been
in a huge audience listening to a speech when the speaker
looked your way and you thought she was looking right at
you? You might have thought, “Wow. She’s talking to me.
Personally! I wonder why she picked me out of this entire
audience!”
Good
speakers know how to give everyone in the audience personal
eye contact. With small groups it’s not hard. Just work
your way around the room. But with large audiences, you’re
going to have to rely on a stage trick we call “The Eye
Contact Paradox.” |
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Want
to Nail Your Next Big Presentation? Let Our Coaches Help
You Be a Star! |
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When Henry
Ford introduced the Model T, the joke was that you could have
your car any color you wanted “Just so long as you want
black.” Unfortunately, most public speaking training is the
same way.
Most
public speaking training takes place in workshops. But
Speechworks is changing that model with Communication
Situation Coaching. |
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