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02Apr

Audience Brains Need Structure When You Speak In Public

Audience brains need structure when you speak in public

Audience Brains Need Structure What's one thing that your audience really needs from you when you speak in public? A structure. It's so important to give them a clear framework for your content. Our brains are pattern-making machines. We're constantly scanning new information for patterns which we can relate to our current knowledge base, and we subconsciously try to create a logic by comparing and sorting information. If there's no logical flow, we'll be unhappy, even though we may not consciously know why. (Of course, if the presentation we've just sat through...

By Sarah DenholmAudience Management, Content, Delivery, Public Speaking and Presentation Skills Blog, Structurebrain patterns, clear message, confident presentations, confident public speaking, framework for public speaking clarity, presentation structure, public speaking structure3 CommentsRead more...

15Jan

12 Essential Truths About Public Speaking, Fear and Growth

12 Essential Truths about Public Speaking, Fear and Growth

12 Essential Truths about Public Speaking, Fear and Growth Speaking in public is a complex activity with a lot of moving parts: especially when fear is involved, as it so often is: it brings up vulnerability and challenges for so many of my clients (and before I learned how to work through it in the right ways, for me). From recent conversations with clients and what's resonated with them, I've distilled some of my observations about public speaking, fear and growth which I believe to be true, and hopefully useful...

By Sarah DenholmMindset, Overcoming Nerves, Public Speaking and Presentation Skills Blogafraid of public speaking, assumptions and beliefs about public speaking, authentic public speaking, breath and public speaking, commit to your voice, confident public speaking, engaging your audience, fear of public speaking, fear public speaking, good public speaking, nervous energy, public speaking growth, public speaking resistance, self-belief and public speaking, speaking skills1 CommentRead more...

02May

How to Build Confidence When Public Speaking and Presenting

Confidence Building What do you believe about building confidence around your speaking skills? Here is what I've found to be true: confidence is simply the expectation of a positive outcome. There are all sorts of possible definitions of confidence, but I like this one; it's clear, and boiled down to its essence. So how, you may be asking, do you build that expectation of a positive outcome? In 2 ways: 1. You take action in the outside world 2. You take care with your self-talk in the inner world Let's have a look at these 2 elements - which may be simple, but...

By Sarah DenholmMindset, Overcoming Nerves, Public Speaking and Presentation Skills Blogconfident presentations, confident public speaking, fear of presenting, mind-mapping beliefs, nervous about presenting, new public speaking beliefs, perfectionism public speaking, public speaking class, public speaking course, public speaking self-talk, public speaking successful mindset, speaking belief system, speaking coach, speaking skills2 CommentsRead more...

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Audience brains need structure when you speak in public

12 Essential Truths about Public Speaking, Fear and Growth