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September 2004 |
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Negative Moods Might Make You
a Better Speaker, Study Says. |
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It’s been
one of those weeks. You’re feeling low. You’re burned out.
You’re ready to give up and become a professional fisherman.
And you’re certainly not looking forward to giving that
presentation tomorrow to the board of directors.
At least you
can take heart in knowing that you may be about to give the
best presentation of your life.
That’s one
surprising implication from a new study published in the
Journal of Experimental Psychology. |
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Try "Show and Tell" to Really Make the Audience
Understand. It's Fun! |
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If you want to really get your audience to
remember a point, try “show and tell”. If done
right, demonstrations can make an unforgettable
impression on an audience.
No one in the Washington D.C. hearing room will
ever forget Nobel Prize Winning Physicist
Richard Feynman immersing some rubber "O-Ring"
material in a cup of ice water to demonstrate
the cause of the explosion of the Space Shuttle
Challenger.
It turned out that the insulation around the
infamous shuttle O-Rings, which had properties
similar to Styrofoam, became dangerously
inelastic at 32 degrees, the temperature on the
day of the Challenger launch.
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Fear of Computer Crashes Surpasses Fear of Public Speaking,
Geek Poll Says. |
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Fear of
losing personal and professional data in a massive computer
failure has surpassed fear of public speaking as the nation’s
top dread.
At least
that’s according to a survey done by
Geek Squad, a company that helps prevent computer failure.
Speechworks
is certainly pleased that public speaking fear could be on the
run. But where public speaking ranks as a fear depends on the
survey. Google.com recently offered up three surveys putting
fear of public speaking first, second and sixth among the most
common phobias of North Americans. |
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Want to Simplify Complex Topics? Listen to Bill Nye the
Science Guy. |
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To learn how to make complicated stuff easy to
understand, no one is a better teacher than Bill Nye the
Science Guy. For many years, Nye produced a popular national
television program on public television in which he explained
the complexities of science to children.
And what was his secret? Focus on just a few key points. |
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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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