Public Speaking Tips

Online Communication Skills: Tips to Maintain Attendees’ Attention

Conduct Webinars They’ll Adore, Not Abhor To keep your virtual audience from tuning out of your presentation, consider using interaction tools every one to two minutes. This lets your audience know that you’ll be asking for their input, looking for their response and requesting questions. No matter what web-based meeting platform you use, it surely …

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Public Speaking Tips to Engage Your Audience

Public Speaking Tips to Engage Your Audience   The No. 1 way to keep your audience’s attention is to focus your content on what THEY need to know. It’s easy to develop your content based on what you want to tell them, but it is critical that you take a step back and think like …

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Presentation Tips: How to Respond While Under Fire

On the Hot Seat? How to Respond While Under Fire Between layoffs, budget cuts, shortened work weeks and more work than we can handle, chances are someone is going to catch you off guard with an issue that you’ll need to deal with on the spot. When this happens you may tend to ramble, make …

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Fight Boredom with Good Online Communication Skills

Webinars: Bored out of your Gourd? If you’ve attended webinars or web meetings, chances are you had a hard time paying attention. It is my opinion that the responsibility for holding attendee’s attention falls solely with the presenter.   If you find yourself in the position of having to conduct virtual communications, here are a …

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Business Communication Training: The Trouble with E-Mail

There’s no doubt that we’re addicted to e-mail.  However, in this on-demand world we have become extremely informal in our communications. This can pose a real problem when it comes to credibility and professionalism.  Here’s how you can make your everyday e-mails stand out from the rest of the clutter: Use a specific subject line. …

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