How Sarah Palin Should Prepare… and How You Should Too
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Back to basics — 7
In the end, it all comes down to the audience. A standard communications model looks like this: sender – receiver ...
Back to basics — 5
You must rehearse in order to give a good presentation. If you don’t rehearse, your body language will give you ...
Back to basics — 4
Every communication is two conversations, the verbal (the content) and the non-verbal (the body language). When the two are aligned, ...
How did the speech go?
I gave the speech this morning in a conference room holding about 60 people in that banquet-round-table style beloved of ...
What’s the difference between speaking and training?
What's the difference between giving a speech and training? I've had reason to think about that question recently as a ...
Rehearsal 8 — Conclusion
OK, I've given you lots of ways to rehearse. You won't do all of them, unless you really want to ...
Rehearsal 7 — The Dress Rehearsal
The last full rehearsal you do should take place the day before, or 2 days before, the actual event. It ...
Rehearsal 6 — The Opening Rehearsal
The openings of speeches are incredibly important for setting the mood, the audience expectations, and the energy level in the ...
Rehearsal 5 — The Walk-Through Rehearsal
I've written about the deer-in-the-headlights phenomenon before, when a speaker faces one too many unexpected obstacles and finds himself losing ...
