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July 23, 2016
Body Language , Communication Skills , Persuasion
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What To Do With Your Hands When Speaking

This is one of the classic challenges that people have with public speaking, or speaking in general: what do you do with your hands? Your hands are a powerful communication tool if you can use them correctly. They help to highlight and emphasize your ideas. Everyone who is trying to communicate wit...

Melania Trump vs Michelle Obama – Public Speaking Clinic (video)

Melania vs Michelle Speech Analysis The big news story from today is that Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican Convention partly plagiarized Michelle Obama’s address from 2008. Looking at the speeches side-by-side gives us an interesting look at the women’s different speaking ...

How I Learned to Get Louder

See if this sounds familiar: You go out on a Friday night to bars and clubs, shout at the top of your lungs so your friends can hear you over the loud music, and then later when walking on the quiet street… you’re still shouting! Your body got accustomed to speaking louder, so “lo...

Simple Charisma: 3 Ways to Break up the Monotony

We’ve all seen or heard monotone speakers. They are so boring that half the audience is put to sleep by their presentation. Avoid that trap and increase your charisma by becoming multi-tone instead of monotone. Here’s how you can get started: 1. In each sentence, pronounce at least one word in ...

June 10, 2016
Persuasion
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Persuasion Is More About Emotion Than Content

What’s the best way to persuade someone? When I was younger I liked to write and blog about controversial topics–politics, philosophy, religion. As you might imagine, I would naturally get into a lot of debates and arguments with other bloggers who had opposing views. I always thought if...