THE MOST PRECIOUS THINGS IN SPEECH ARE THE PAUSES ~ RALPH RICHARDSON

Pauses are great for many reasons: They give the audience some time to process our ideas, they can build up the energy to delivery powerful punchlines and they act as the punctuation marks of speech. Indeed… “The most precious things in speech are the pauses”.

OUR BLOG HAS BEEN SELECTED AS NO.1 PUBLIC SPEAKING BLOG IN AUSTRALIA AND NO.36 IN THE WORLD!

We are very proud that our blog has been selected by Feedspot as number 1 public speaking blog in Australia and number 36 in the world!! This is incredible news because we only have 12 posts in our blog. That goes to show that quality not quantity is what matters after all! The hard work we have put on each blog post has paid off!

THE CREATIVE PROCESS IS NOT RATIONAL

A major obstacle in the face of creativity is critiquing your ideas while you are coming up with them. When you are coming up with new ideas you want your imagination to go wild. You don’t want to apply rational thinking and hinder the creative process. No matter how unachievable, silly or impossible an idea may be, just go with the flow. Allow it to flourish till you exhaust your imagination. That’s where the magic happens.

SEVEN TIPS TO BUILD CONFIDENCE IN PUBLIC SPEAKING

In the final part of this three part series on the importance of confidence in public speaking, we want to share with you tips and practical tools that can help you to build confidence as a public speaker. As we mentioned in part one, one thing which unites all speakers is the ongoing need for confidence.

WHY CONFIDENCE IS IMPORTANT IN PUBLIC SPEAKING

Public speaking is about conveying a message to your audience. The focus should therefore be on your audience and NOT on you as the speaker. On stage everything is amplified and not just your voice. If you are confident, this is amplified, and if you lacking in confidence this is amplified too.
Confidence in public speaking is important because it allows you as the speaker to:

7 INDICATORS OF A CONFIDENT PUBLIC SPEAKER

Anyone can look up the generic dictionary definition of confidence but in getting to the heart of what confidence is for a public speaker we want to get more practical.

Below are 7 indicators of a confident public speaker:

DO NOT REPRESS YOUR NERVES, EMBRACE THEM!

The number one comment we hear from anyone trying to learn public speaking is: “I am very nervous and I don’t think I can overcome my fear”. Many people often think of the fear of public speaking and nerves associated with public speaking in the same way. They think that they need to overcome both, nerves and fear, to be considered a polished speaker. We don’t believe this is true! We believe that whilst you can…

A SPEECH IS NOT A SPOKEN ARTICLE, SO DON’T TREAT AS ONE

Just as movies and books are two different mediums, so are speeches and articles. Movies are not acted out books, and speeches are not spoken out articles. However, a lot of people write a speech down the way they write an article and then they read it out to the audience. But we have to ask ourselves: In today’s world, we can send articles to thousands of people with a click of a button and…

OUR FIRST MENTION IN PRINT

There is something special about being mentioned in print! It feels it has more weight than being mentioned online. Perhaps it is the feeling that a printed article doesn’t rely on the internet or on a power source and hence it feels more “eternal”. Perhaps it is the feeling that a printed article was worth the ink and the paper that it was printed on. Or perhaps it is the feeling that there was a…