Category 'Presentation Skills'

5 Proven Steps to Master Your Pitch from Advertising TV Your product or service is brilliant. You have raving customers and fans. BUT do you share that brilliance when you introduce your business at a networking event? For most it feels like creeping death!  You stand up, you introduce yourself.  Your knees wobble as does…

‘The Morning Game’- Billal Jamil     In this article we cover How we can prepare our Mind to Be Confident, Positive and Successful How to overcome the greatest barrier to building momentum Why your morning routine presents a huge opportunity for consistency And why the Mindset is an essential precursor to Confidence, Success and…

    It’s Business 101 we’re told; ‘You MUST attend Events? ‘BUT so many of us don’t. Why? Google “the fear of networking” and the number of hits – 1,970,000!  That fact alone tells you that many of us do FEAR Networking…. Costing you and your business potentially £1000s in lost connections and opportunity! So here I…

Why Return on Love is the next big thing….What happens at the advanced level that is different? It’s about stripping technique right back to the very DNA – understanding the layers of behaviours – knowing who uses it and why the principles work. How to genuinely own the new concept, understand the pros and cons…

1. Be a Know It All! When you feel familiar whether it be your material, the room or the audience you will naturally relax. We know this as fact. So the professional speaker must invest in getting the edge by… Finding out the outline of the day – we call this the running order but…

When I first started working as a professional speaker – I worried a lot about many things but mostly about my knowledge, subject expertise and content. Like most people I feared not knowing ‘my stuff’ – appearing stupid or ill informed. In fact there was a genuine insecurity that someone in my audience would know…

I took the call; it was a call no husband wants to take. The voice on the other end told me my wife had been in a car accident on a duel carriageway near Wakefield. The car was a total right off… my wife was ok, shaken and bruised but she was ok. In 15…

Last month we were invited by BBC Radio 4 to evaluate Ed Miliband’s speech at the Labour Party Conference. BBC Radio 4 asked The Public Speaking Academy to feedback on the approach Ed Millaband took in his key note address and discuss whether we should be aiming to speak without notes especially when tackling issues…

You have different ‘states’ in all parts of your life – in the way you communicate with your boss, your customers, your partner or your friends.  We have developed these ‘states’ over many years.  Speaking requires you to develop a state that works for speaking to groups, but many don’t realise and struggle because of…