Tag: audience engagement

How to reduce your dependency on speaking notes

Increase Your Impact as a Speaker and Presenter

December 22nd, 2020

A woman once told me about having attended her thesis supervisor’s presentation at an academic conference. It took him almost 20 minutes to read his research paper aloud. When he looked up at the end, she was the only one remaining.  Everyone else had bailed from sheer boredom — and he hadn’t even noticed. (She […]

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4 incentives to liberate you from reading your speaking notes

Increase Your Impact as a Speaker and Presenter

December 2nd, 2020

“I’m trying to sound smart.”  These words broke my heart when I heard them from a workshop participant last week.  The young woman who uttered them is so accomplished that she earned a coveted academic research grant usually awarded to PhD students even though she’d just completed a bachelor’s degree. She also speaks three languages.  […]

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