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Three Little Mistakes With Huge Impact for ESL Job Candidates
Business: Careers Employment • Published: February 2, 2012
Job interviews can be mastered easily by those willing to take initiative to have someone practise with the applicants before the interview. The three essential elements that should be developed further include: articles, prepositions, and plurals.
The Biggest Mistake Speakers Make
Business: Presentation • Published: December 19, 2011
One of the biggest mistakes that speakers make while delivering their presentation is the pace of speaking. Your speech rate needs to be adjusted to suit an oral presentation to an audience that is listening, not reading your information.
How to Take Charge of Your Presentations
Business: Presentation • Published: December 19, 2011
Don't hold back, now is the time for you to unlock your voice to reveal confidence, variety, melodious tone, and charisma. The key strategies of preparation, voice, and concentration will evolve into your taking charge of your presentation to exude power and presence.
How to Be Promoted to a Management Position
Business: Careers Employment • Published: October 18, 2011
Being a hard worker sometimes does not get you to be manager. Here are three essential skills and strategies to make you be the automatic choice for a management position.
3 Powerful Strategies to Levitate Your Presentation Style
Business: Presentation • Published: September 30, 2011
Finally, a Drama Coach presents key strategies to enrapture your audience by unleashing the actor within you. If you are still presenting without any impact to your audience then follow these three strategies to change all of that.
Vitalize Your Voice to Vibrate Your Audience
Writing and Speaking: Public Speaking • Published: July 29, 2011
At last, how to create vitality and mesmermize your audience. Here are the challenges and cures to vitalize your audience into action from using your vocal power.
Transition Planning For An Income When You Retire
Home and Family: Retirement • Published: July 25, 2011
Looking for a retirement income that uses your vocal skills and past experience. Finally, a simplified way to get the job you will enjoy with the flexibility that fits your new lifestyle. The voice over industry is exploding!
Top 5 Ways to Maximize Your Voice to Impact Your Career
Business: Careers Employment • Published: July 25, 2011
Are you using your voice effectively to get the job, or network your business opportunity. Here are 5 key ways to implement your next career step.
Activities to Engage Your Audience
Business: Presentation • Published: July 11, 2011
Are you looking for activities to engage your audience? One of the major transferable skills that works for teachers, trainers, and presenters is the ability to engage participants in activities that connect with their learning. Here are three drama activities that can appeal to your participants in their training experience so they discover the connection with your presentation.
Is Your Passionate Tone Smothering Your Clarity?
Business: Presentation • Published: June 20, 2011
Find out how to have both the speech techniques and the voice tone to achieve speaker success. You may have a most melodious voice with a varied inflection rising and falling, and a tone that captures the mood of your message but not the clarity of your content.
What Did Your Professional Engineer or Technical Expert Just Say?
Business: Presentation • Published: May 31, 2011
Is your accent or technical language losing your audience's interest? Here are the Key steps for technical engineers and other experts on how to do oral presentations to win the contract.
How to Stop the Sound of Your Voice From Destroying Your Message?
Business: Presentation • Published: May 26, 2011
Is the sound of your voice too weak to impact your audience? Finally, here are 3 key exercises to improve the sound of your voice to match and enhance your message. Brenda Smith, a voice power coach suggests it's time to release your inner powerful voice.
Help - My Voice Gave Out On Me
Business: Presentation • Published: May 10, 2011
Here are Key points on why you should warm-up your voice for your presentations and webinars. If you want to save your voice from all your speaking events then check this out.
Actor's Voice Training to Skyrocket Your Speaking Business
Business: Presentation • Published: April 27, 2011
Finally, here is a wake-up call to all speakers and businesses to advance your business investment. Discover how you need to invest in your vocal training to have the action and professionalism you need today.
Three Keys To Injecting Drama Skills Into Your Presentation
Writing and Speaking: Public Speaking • Published: February 21, 2011
Have you invested in adding drama skills to your presentations. Here are three key areas of drama skills that will enhance your presentations to keep your audience on the edge of their seats with interest.
Three Quick Tips to Quantum Leap Your Presentation Success
Business: Presentation • Published: January 5, 2011
Is it time for you to inject your presentation with new vitality and leap to the level you've always dreamed about? If you are bored doing your presentation one more time; then it's true that your audience is bored listening to you as well. There are three quick tips to boost you and your audience presentation into that edgy excitement that you use to have. You want your audience to be excited about your speech or message so they not only absorb the moment; but also, rise to applaud and act upon your words with great anticipation of the outcome. Follow these three quick tips before you do your next presentation and you will be amazed at the results.
How to Become Comfortable Speaking to Groups About Your Business
Writing and Speaking: Public Speaking • Published: January 4, 2011
Are you missing out on selling your service or product because you don't want to speak in front of groups? Then it's time for you to take action to increase your presence and bottom-line!
Tips For Making a Work Presentation Easier
Business: Presentation • Published: October 15, 2010
Here are some key tips for making your presentation easier, so you can "wow" your audience with a great take-away, and create less stress for yourself while making it. Whether this is the first time or the 100th time to do a work presentation, you want it to come across with impact for your audience.
What Courses You Can Take to Improve Your Presentation Skills
Business: Presentation • Published: September 8, 2010
If you want to improve your presentation skills invest your training in a Drama Course and a Voice Empowerment Course. Most presentations need to be supercharged with creativity, punch, and passion to achieve the best presentation experience for the participants and the presenter.
How to Get Past the Fear of Public Speaking
Writing and Speaking: Public Speaking • Published: September 8, 2010
Public speaking is used all the time in business by branding your products, company name, and networking to increase your income. There are ways to ease your body, mind, and mouth into speaking in front of people through an almost subliminal process.
How to Raise Your Status in the Pecking Order?
Relationships: Communication • Published: July 27, 2010
Do you need to raise your status in the pecking order of everyday interactions, or with a business colleague, or a boss? Throughout my years of training drama students in exploring improvisational role playing, one of the most defining exercises involves situations where the characters are considered to be of low or high status. All of the participants have enjoyed exploring these roles to further their internal analysis of their real lives, and build their confidence.
Even a YouTube Presenter Needs a Speech Coach
Internet and Businesses Online: Video Marketing • Published: July 20, 2010
Finally, here's a look at how to gain listener attention for your YouTube show. Most presenters using YouTube video have two of the most common blocks of communication: speaking too quickly, and not speaking clearly enough.
Three Quick Tips to Instant Clear-Speech Diction
Writing and Speaking: Public Speaking • Published: June 21, 2010
Here are the 3 key tips to improve your diction. If you want to reach your customer, client, business prospect, via phone; or if you are a trainer using teleconferencing, video, or podcasting - then be sure you are speaking clearly.
Benefits of Voice Power Training
Business: Presentation • Published: May 25, 2010
Your voice is really your personal and professional business card. The benefits of voice power go beyond knowing what it is you want to communicate; it goes to the level of HOW to orally execute your message in the most effective way. This includes having specific training in oral skills through a process from preparation, to effective presence, and finally to an "awesome" performance
The Best Speech Tips For Job Seekers
Business: Careers Employment • Published: May 12, 2010
You rehearse what you are going to say. You need to win the job. It is critical that you begin to focus on your speech techniques before you hit the road.
