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August 2004 |
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Good News about Public
Speaking Angst; Stage Fright Boosts the Immune System. |
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It’s time to
get up and give that big speech. Your heart is pounding.
Your palms are sweating. You’re starting to feel faint.
And your
immune system loves it!
That’s the
conclusion of a 30-year study of stress research published
recently in Psychological Bulletin, a journal of the American
Psychological Association. The analysis culled through 300
studies involving over 19,000 participants. |
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Want to Learn to Speak "Off the Cuff"?
Think of Bridges with Posted Weight Limits. |
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Whenever people ask us how they can be more
effective speaking “off the cuff”, we remind
them of those roadway bridges with the posted weight limits.
Indeed, every year small bridges collapse when
truckers try to drive their 20-ton rigs over
bridges with posted 10-ton limits.
What does this have to do with communication?
We think that communication is like a bridge with a
posted weight limit. Spoken communication works
best when it’s kept simple and free of too much
“weight” like complicated statistics and
detailed logical explanations.
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How
Long for a Formal Speech? Thirty Minutes at Most, Study
Says. |
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If you’re
giving a formal speech, you better limit your remarks to 30
minutes at most, according to a new study.
After
that, the listeners begin to daydream, according to a recent
study by Bedlam Entertainment. The study showed that
after 30 minutes, more than half the audience tunes out. |
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If
you want to Sound Smarter, Dump the "Ums" and Speak Faster. |
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We’ve
always said that some of the worst speaking advice people
often hear is “slow down.” Speaking slowly makes you sound
tentative and, according to a study out of Canada, less
intelligent.
That’s
right, slow talkers that use lots of filler words are often
judged as ignorant when compared to faster speaking
counterparts, according to Robert Gifford, Ph.D., of the
University of Victoria in British Columbia.
Gifford
taped high school kids answering tough questions and then
played the tapes for other students. The ones that spoke
faster and avoided the “uhs” were perceived to be smarter. |
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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.
Most
public speaking training takes place in workshops. But
Speechworks is changing that model with Communication
Situation Coaching. |
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