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Here’s the next letter in our Alphabet Soup of Public Speaking Blunders. The letter D: Droning Details. Ready for a guessing game? Read the following paragraph and then choose which question you believe elicited this response…. “Well, I woke up earlier than usual,...
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The letter W is up next, which stands for Weasel Words. What the hell is a weasel anyway? We’ll leave the literal definition to Animal Planet. But as far as metaphors go, here’s a good definition: Your weasel of a friend who has a habit of “forgetting”...
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We’ve arrived at the letter I: Insufferable Inner Critic. According to theNational Science Foundation, 80% of self-talk is negative. We’ll wait while you pull yourself together… This week, a new client shared her trifecta of inner critic judgments: Who do you...
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Next up is the letter R: Ruinous Rambling. Do you ever lose your audience’s attention during a presentation? Are you drowning your listeners in unnecessary details and data, taking the long and winding road to your main message? It’s time to leave the land...
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Next up is the letter P: Precarious Presence. We got a call from a Fortune 500 client with the following request: Dave was promoted to Managing Director. He is technically savvy and is an excellent task manager. However, he struggles in the spotlight. He gets really...
