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10 things to help you use your voice
It’s your instrument and most people don’t really know how to use it. Rehearse in the place where you’ll make your speech...
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1.9K10 things to help you start brilliantly
So many people ask how do you start well in a presentation, and in a previous post I talked about learning from...
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So what?
It’s a really good question for presenters. Every slide, every story, every image, every point. Ask yourself ‘So what?’ because it will...
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6 pieces of tomfoolery that some public speaking coaches tell you… and why they're wrong
Philip Larkin, late, lonely, lovely English poet, wrote a short and bitter little thing that leads us into why so much rubbish is...
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Lesson 6: Use everything in the verbal bag of tricks, but sparingly
Use Alliteration: Alliteration is the deliberate arrangement of words with the same letters and sounds at their start for explosive effect. Alliteration...
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Lesson 5: Use the simple metaphor to help… learn Jeremy Clarkson’s only trick
Metaphor is a fundamental tool of the English language. Without it, meaning would suffer because we would be left with flat description...
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Lesson 4: Use visual imagery
Hypnotists and comedians know that people hypnotise and amuse themselves. A hypnotist’s job is to get the subject to use her own...
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Lesson 3: Avoid cliché like the plague
In the ” Dictionary of Plain English”, the editor A.G. Fowler says… “Hackneyed phrases become hackneyed because they are useful in the...
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93% of the message is complete twaddle. The truth is much better
We’ve all heard the numbers- 7% of your meaning is contained in the words you say; 35% in the vocal delivery and...
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