Stop Scaring Yourself Off the Stage By Lauren Marlow Category: Nerves If you suffer from a fear of public speaking, you are not alone. Polls indicate that the fear of public speaking affects 70-75% of the population and is more common than the fear of spiders, confinement or even death. The fear of public [...]
CLICK HERE to listen/view the recorded webinar "How to Effectively Bookend Your Presentations" How to Give a Great Webinar By Joey Asher Category: Content Leo Tolstoy began his masterpiece “Anna Karenina” with the sentence “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Here’s my twist on that famous opening [...]
CLICK HERE to listen/view the recorded webinar "Top Five Mistakes People Make with PowerPoint" What Would the Gettysburg Address Look Like in PowerPoint? By Joey Asher Category: Visual Aid "Hi. I’m Abe Lincoln. My first slide lays out a timeline for our nation. As you can see reading from left to right, it really [...]
CLICK HERE to listen/view the recorded webinar “Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking! What I Learned from Vomiting and Fainting in Front of My Class By Joey Asher Category: Nerves As a public speaking coach, nervous speakers regularly tell me “I think I’m going to pass out” or “I’m feeling sick to my stomach.” [...]
CLICK HERE to listen/view the recorded webinar “How to Have a Tough Conversation at Work” Learning from Your Dentist: The Keys to Delivering Bad News By Joey Asher Category: Practice, Other, Nerves Many of us have to deliver unwanted messages. For example, my dentist recently told me that some of my old fillings were deteriorating [...]
CLICK HERE to listen/view the recorded webinar “How to Interview for a Job Virtually” Public Speaking Tips from Socrates By Joey Asher Category: Tips from Celebrities Socrates said “I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance”. But while the Greek philosopher may have touted his lack of knowledge, we can learn much about presenting [...]
CLICK HERE to listen/view the recorded webinar “Keys to Public Speaking Success and Your Questions” Public Speaking 4.0. Connecting with Audiences in the Post-Covid Era By Joey Asher Category: Other What is the state of public speaking in 2021? Covid has ushered in what might be called Public Speaking 4.0. That’s a world where [...]
CLICK HERE to listen/view the recorded webinar “Discussion with Expert on Managing Virtual Teams”. Help Your Stories with a Healthy Helping of Schmaltz By Joey Asher Category: Other I was helping a client with a story he planned to tell as part of his presentation. “You know what this story needs?” I said. “This [...]
CLICK HERE to listen/view the recorded webinar “How to Separate Yourself from the Competition with a Presentation”. Checklist for a Winning New Business Presentation By Joey Asher Category: Other How do I communicate in a way that is credible and assertive but that I can still be myself?” I recently read surgeon and journalist [...]
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Questions By Joey Asher Category: Q&A In our communication skills workshops, we spend a good bit of time focused on Q&A. In fact, we feel it’s probably the most important element of a presentation. It’s when what really matters to the listeners gets addressed. It’s also the point at [...]
