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Have more confidence when speaking!
Report to give at monthly meeting? HELP! Introducing guest speaker? YIKES! Wedding toast is up to you? UGH…Difficult conversation tomorrow?
Sound familiar? Breathe, with these helpful hacks.
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For visual learners, seeing the words is beneficial. Whatever works, works:
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Outline
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Essay
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Mind map
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POST-IT
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Main points on POST-ITs
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Arrange notes on window, mirror, sliding door in proper order
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WALK AND TALK
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Avoid mirrors – it’s distracting to watch yourself.
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Pacing helps voice sound stronger: stand straight!
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Relieves nervous energy, clears head.
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Eventually, find center stage, center of the room, and head of the table.
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Reduce pacing.
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Natural gestures. (No prayerful hands!)
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Glance a few seconds in all directions. Even back of room.
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Watch speakers on YouTube.
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Get a coach.
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KNOW YOUR FIRST LINE.
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If all else fails, your first line won’t!
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Builds confidence, frees mind.
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Repeat ten times to brain-lock it.
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During practice days, challenge yourself to recite the first line.
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If I wake you at 3:00 a.m., you can tell me your first line!
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CELL PHONE SUPPORT
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Walk or drive in public? Recite speech into phone. (Others assume it’s conversation.)
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Record speech on phone.
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Listen for fillers (uh, um, okay, well…, so)
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Have someone else listen for pointers
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TEAM LILY: I walk daily, practicing, while walking our dog. Good news/bad news:
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(+) Passersby think it’s nice you talk to your dog.
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(-) Unfortunately, dogs can’t critique you.
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(+) Hey, it’s practice, right?
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VEHICLE: Interruptions happen.
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During errands, speech gets interrupted, when exiting car.
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The practice is: you must resume your place when getting back in car!
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Good…
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Walk!
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Talk!
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Luck!
Bobbe White is a Certified Laughter Leader, (seriously) with the World Laughter Tour, Inc. She incorporates humor and laughter to improve overall performance and has been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek Japan, Family Circle, TV Tokyo and Re-Diff/India. She’s authored two books and co-authored three. Whether it’s team building, customer care, wellness, eldercare or stress management, Bobbe empowers others to a new level of confidence!
White’s work history includes 37 years as an officer with Backlund Investment Company, a community bank group. Initially, she was the swim pr at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club, Orlando. (It’s like a golf pro, but with more water.) Bobbe divides her energy among banking, speaking, and writing, her aging husband, aging children, aging parents and aging food in the fridge. Constantly a victim of life's twists and turns at work or home; she utilizes humor to combat daily stressors. When that doesn't work, she writes, visits the gym or her aging, but therapeutic tool, Lily White, the black Lab.
“Her message? Significant!” Her delivery? Pure energy!” On-Air Media.
White’s work history includes 37 years as an officer with Backlund Investment Company, a community bank group. Initially, she was the swim pr at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club, Orlando. (It’s like a golf pro, but with more water.) Bobbe divides her energy among banking, speaking, and writing, her aging husband, aging children, aging parents and aging food in the fridge. Constantly a victim of life's twists and turns at work or home; she utilizes humor to combat daily stressors. When that doesn't work, she writes, visits the gym or her aging, but therapeutic tool, Lily White, the black Lab.
“Her message? Significant!” Her delivery? Pure energy!” On-Air Media.
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