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For the blog today, I've asked our voice coach, Jessica Cooper, to make the case for memorization of a speech. In classical music, silence is never accidental. The effective use of silence creates a liminal space for listeners, where meaning can actually settle in the brain and emotion can register. Pauses are where memory begins ...
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I first ran this list a few years back. Here it is again, updated for 2025 and in time for last-minute shopping: what to get your favorite public speaking family member or friend for the holidays. Following (in no particular order and at varying price points) are 9 suggestions for anyone who speaks, presents, or ...
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Trust. You might argue that nothing much happens in organizational life without it. Leaders need to trust their workers. Workers need to trust their leaders. Customers and companies need to trust each other, as well as suppliers and companies and so on. When there’s a circle of trust, good things can happen. When trust is ...
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The story you tell yourself is the most important story. You learn that story from a thousand sources – your caregivers, your authority figures, your family, friends, peers, teachers, and your experiences. What story do you tell yourself? I buried myself in books as a child to escape a ferocious family. While they were busy ...
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At the simplest level, let’s call it Level One, public speaking is a performance. The speaker appears in front of a passive audience and delivers a scripted (more or less) combination of words, images, videos, and so on. It’s up to the audience, at this stage, to pay attention as much as it can, or ...
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