By Arlen Busenitz, on September 29th, 2010%
For 45 minutes the speaker delivered his keynote. If you had been evaluating him, you may have given him 5 stars for:
- Compelling content
- Great stories
- Good stage movements
- Connecting with the audience
You may have even him given 5 stars for a good conclusion, if you were still paying attention. This guy had a voice that was so flat/monotone that heart monitors flat lined when they heard him speak. OK, not that bad.
An otherwise stellar performance was hindered by the fact he talked at the same speed with the same pitch at the same volume for 45 minutes. It is very difficult to pay attention when the speaker has a monotone voice.
How is your voice? Having good vocal variety will help you share your expertise and have people coming back to listen to you. Here are some speech tips to help you have a clear speaking voice.
How to Improve Your Vocal . . . → Read More: Are You a Monotone Speaker?
By Arlen Busenitz, on September 18th, 2010%
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By Arlen Busenitz, on August 23rd, 2010%
As an expert, you’ll likely be taking free and paid speaking engagements to spread your message and build up your credibility. How important is public speaking humor?
The short answer is very important. Sure you can make a great presentation without it, just as you can have a good tasting Ice Cream Sunday without chocolate. However, your speech will be so much more received if humor is intertwined in it.
When I say humor, I am not talking about throwing in several jokes that made their rounds through email. Nor am I referring to adding a couple Readers Digest stories.
Great speech humor is adding in your personal humorous stories and tweaking your existing content so that it makes the audience laugh.
Here are 5 reasons why humor is important in presentations.
Reason #1: Humor connects you with the audience
Laughter draws people together. An audience that is laughing is involved. When they are involved in your . . . → Read More: Public Speaking Humor: Is it Important?
