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16Apr

Audience Connection: Your Truth or Universal Truth

Audience Connection - Your Truth or Universal Truth As audience members in a presentation or event of any kind, something we look for is a connection with the speaker. And one of the things that impacts that connection is when the presenter throws out a generalisation about a topic, and confidently asserts something that isn't true for us: either literally, or that doesn't fit with our values or beliefs. You could think of it like this, seen through the lens of audience connection: 'your truth' or 'universal truth'. Whether the speaker's assertion is a 'literal' or 'beliefs' trigger for us, it can cause...

By Sarah DenholmContent, Persuasion, Public Speaking and Presentation Skills Blogaudience connection, audience values and beliefs, Cuban proverb Every Head is a World, eye contact public speaking, high audience engagement, Lifehack.org, Mandy Kloppers1 CommentRead more...

27Sep

Public Speaking Body Language Loop

In this video, I discuss the public speaking body language loop and how yours can help you, as well as signal competence to your audience.

So many speaking coaches talk about public speaking body language, and there's a lot of advice out there. Here's a small part on video about how positive body language at the start of your presentation can become self-reinforcing and help you to move confidently into the rest of your talk . Transcript: Hello! So today I would like to talk to you about body language - obviously a huge topic, and there are plenty...

By Sarah DenholmBody Language, Delivery, Overcoming Nerves, Public Speaking and Presentation Skills Blogaudience believing body language, audience judgement, beginning of presentation, body language in public speaking, eye contact public speaking, two channels of communication in public speaking0 CommentsRead more...

18May

Nervous Speaker? Where Does your Focus Naturally Go?

So you're a nervous speaker: where does your focus naturally go?

Updated 2019 Today's video post is around a link to some interesting research on where your eyes and attention go if you're an anxious presenter. This is assuming you're able to look up and 'take in' your audience - and if you're nervous, that's not a given! (I put myself in that category: my eyes used to dart around the room when I was afraid of speaking. Eye contact was way too difficult!) Nervous Speaker - Where Does your Focus Naturally Go? So if you're a nervous speaker, where does...

By Sarah DenholmAudience Management, Delivery, Mindset, Overcoming Nerves, Public Speaking and Presentation Skills Bloganxious public speaking, British Psychological Society Research Digest, Cognition and Emotion, eye contact public speaking, focus nervous speaker, Muyu Lin, negative audience, nervous speaker2 CommentsRead more...

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Public Speaking Body Language Loop

In this video, I discuss the public speaking body language loop and how yours can help you, as well as signal competence to your audience.

So you're a nervous speaker: where does your focus naturally go?