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Act “As-if”

February 13, 2010 By Dan Girard Leave a Comment

When it comes to public speaking, there’s usually two types of people:

Those who LOVE it
Those who HATE it

I know that hate is a strong word but I think it’s an appropriate description of those who have a fear of public speaking. For the majority of people the latter is true. There’s a lot that you can do to work on your fear: deep breathing exercises, practice, hypnosis, etc. However, what if you’re still not at the level you want to be but still have to give a speech or presentation?
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Using Humor

February 5, 2010 By Dan Girard Leave a Comment

Using humor in your speech or presentation can give you many benefits. It can help warm up an audience to you. It can show them that you’re interesting and they should be ready for anything. It can also help you relax by setting a tone of fun and that you’re interesting to listen to.
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Becoming Larger Than Life

February 4, 2010 By Dan Girard Leave a Comment

To say that there is no ego in a person who does public speaking regularly or for a living would be clearly a false statement. But for those of us who only speak from time to time, when you see a speaker who can walk out in a room of 30 people or a auditorium of 3000 and literally “own the room”, it really is an amazing transformation. To imagine how you could ever be that much larger than life is mind boggling.
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Fear Of Public Speaking? Have Sex.

January 30, 2010 By Dan Girard Leave a Comment

We all know that the fear of public speaking is one of the biggest fears that most people have. Just the thought of having to get up in front of a group of people can cause some to go into full panic attacks. There a many different methods to combating this fear: deep breathing exercises, NLP (Neural Linguistic Programming), even drug therapy. However, a researcher from Scotland has discovered another method for reducing stress: Sex.
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Shoes, Booze, and Smooze – The Zappos Way Of Management

June 12, 2009 By Dan Girard Leave a Comment

You would think that with a title like this that it would a) have nothing to do with public speaking, and b) have nothing to do with running a billion dollar business. The fact is, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh uses all three methods and then some to run his billion dollar empire. Although he is naturally shy and wasn’t a great speaker, he has found ways to become a super-star speaker.
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Act “As-if”

Using Humor

Becoming Larger Than Life

Fear Of Public Speaking? Have Sex.

Shoes, Booze, and Smooze – The Zappos Way Of Management

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