Bill Monroe
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2-Minute Tip : The Stage as War Zone Think of the stage as a war zone. Not in the sense that the audience is an enemy. The enemy is the way many folks hold back and don’t spend all their energy on stage. To mix metaphors even further, the s
2-Minute Tip: Tell Stories Stories are how humans connect. They form the basis of our social relationships. They’re how we share history. As a speaker, one of the best ways to make sure you connect with your audience is to tell stories — an
2-Minute Tip: Be Authentic and Tell Your Story Across the different guests I talk with, the theme of authenticity keeps coming up in the tips. It’s similar in many of them which demonstrates just how important it is. Also interesting is how e
2-Minute Tip: Be Your True and Honest Self We talk a lot about authenticity because it matters. And while it may seem daunting, it can actually make things easier. When you don’t try to fake it, you don’t waste brain cycles and energy trying
2-Minute Tip — Connect with Your Audience Before speaking, meet your audience members. In a small meeting, maybe that means greeting them as they come in to the conference room. At a larger event, that may mean mingling with attendees in the
2-Minute Tip: Earn your Confidence If you project confidence on stage your audience is more likely to believe you. If you are confident, you’ll feel less nervous getting up to speak. Confidence doesn’t come for free, though. You have to ear
2-Minute Tip: Be Vulnerable We often talk about the importance of authenticity as a speaker. Another way to think about it, though, is vulnerability. The benefit of vulnerability as a speaker is that the audience can feel where you are comi
2-Minute Tip: Know 3 Stories While it’s helpful to have lots of stories at your disposal, there are three types that will help you in speeches, job interviews and client interactions. They are Underdog, Authority, and Fixer. The Underdog s
2-Minute Tip: Reframe your Anxiety Anxiety and excitement are closely related so if you’re nervous before speaking, reframe it in your has as excitement. Tell yourself how excited you are at this opportunity. The physical symptoms — jitters,
2-Minute Tip: Don’t Apologize Or more specifically, don’t start your talk by apologizing to the audience for the talk they are about to hear. It comes across as an appeal for pity. When you do that it means you are starting from a position of
2-Minute Tip: Slow Down Many speakers take the stage with their adrenaline pumping as the try to stifle their nerves or live in the exciting moment. Many times, they end up speaking to quickly. So try to slow down. When we speak, we are oft
2-Minute Tip: Record Yourself and Watch it 3 Times Recording yourself on video used to be hard. But that’s not the case anymore. Nearly everyone has a powerful video camera in their pocket. There’s no reason not to use this tool to make yours
2-Minute Tip: Don’t waste you first 10 seconds When you go out on that stage you are a blank slate with the audience . They don’t know you. They’re not bored with you — yet. Now is when you have the best chance to grab their attention and int
2-Minute Tip: Take Action The most important thing you can do as a speaker is to speak. Get one or two takes ready to go and then just focus on filling your calendar. Do whatever you can to book yourself solid. Get that stage time so you can
2-Minute Tip: Greet Audience Members Early As much as practical, if you have time before your speech, meet some members of your audience. Greet them as they come in and sit down. This accomplishes a couple things. First, it’s the start of a
2-Minute Tip: Fuel your body properly Our bodies react differently to different foods, and to maximize our performance, we need to consume the appropriate fuel for the results we want. That means, first of all, hydrate. That was also the ve
2-Minute Tip: Just put yourself out there Getting past intense nerves can be challenging, but there comes a point where you just have to do it. Just acknowledge your nerves and stage fright and do it anyway. If things don’t go well, the world
2-Minute Tip: Slides must help the audience, not the presenter One reason folks audibly groan when they think about PowerPoint is that too many speakers use the slides to help them get through their presentation rather than to help the audien
2-Minute Tip: Be Vulnerable When you open up and share your story with an audience, it gives them an opportunity to connect with you on a deeper, emotional level. When you establish that connection with them, they listen more closely, relate
2-Minute Tip: Tell Your Personal Truth To be effective as a speaker on the big stage, you have to be able to tell your truth. That means you have to know what it is. This may take some personal work to understand what you are passionate about
2-Minute Tip: Stay in Your Line When on stage, there’s pressure to have all the answers — to be the expert. And when we’re talking about the area of our expertise. What do we do we aren’t the expert though? There’s a lot of power in sayin
2-Minute Tip: Mine Social Media for Stories We talk a lot about the importance of storytelling in talks. And I’m sure many of us have seen speakers who have a story for everything. How do you do that? Review your social media. We tell st
2-Minute Tip: Practice Breathing Breathing is, of course, an essential step in speaking. After all, it's how we make sounds. But it's more than that. Getting adequate air into our lungs calms us down. It helps us counter act the nerves many
2-Minute Tip: Cross the Screw It Line We can prepare and prepare all we want, but at a certain point before a talk, we’ve done all that we can do. The anxiety we may feel in going out on stage is less helpful on stage. There comes a point
2-Minute Tip: Textiful One way to avoid overwhelming and stressing your audience is to make resources available after the fact and to let your audience know those resources will, in fact, be available. Ari Meisel recommends Textiful for thi
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