Using statistics in a speech or presentation can enhance your credibility and give your message impact. Or it can confuse, bore or mislead your audience.
Being assertive is about finding a healthy and sustainable balance between your needs and those of others. This is something worth aspiring to in itself, since
One of the tenets of neuro-linguistic programming is that the meaning of communication is the response you get. I’ve never studied NLP so I’m taking this
A useful question to ask yourself before you speak is how you would respond if you were in the other person’s position. This will prevent
One of the most effective ways to combat nerves in the hours and minutes before a business pitch or other presentation, an interview, a lecture,
A pause is a tool of immense power. It facilitates and improves communication, benefiting both speaker and listener – and yet it is woefully underused.
“Just be yourself.” How many times have you been given this advice in the run-up to an interview, presentation or speech? How useful have you
Self-consciousness is one of the biggest barriers to putting yourself across. Worrying about what everyone else is thinking of you holds you back in so
When it comes to putting yourself across, it’s useful to bear in mind two contradictory spotlight-related phenomena and to tread a confident path between them.
It’s an annoying quirk of nature that it’s exactly at the times we’re most concerned to appear smooth and in control (making a speech, being