public speaking podcasts

Do you want to be seen as a thought leader in your field? Would it help if you could continue to grow your network and social media following? Are you striving to get more speaking gigs? If you said yes to any of these, then building your personal brand may be the answer ... or at least a significant part of it. In this episode, Victoria Pelletier discusses the importance of personal branding and its impact on professional growth.

Resources

- Victoria-Pelletier.com

- The Captivating Public Speaker on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJ8HRPWC

When you’re developing presentations, how much thought do you give to being persuasive? Any? Well, you should because just about every time you deliver a presentation, you're attempting to persuade someone to buy what you’re selling, whether it’s a product or service or an idea, belief, proposition, or other concepts. So, if you want to be more persuasive when speaking, listen in as my guest, Bryan Rutberg, explains how you can make this a reality.

Takeaways

- Discoverhree things you should do before your presentations

- Learn if one is more important than the others

- Is being persuasive manipulative? 

- How you can tell if your persuasiveness is working? 

- In which environments being persuasive works 

- Hear examples of how this works and those where it hasn't

Resources

- BryanRutberg.com

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanrutberg/

- The Captivating Public Speaker on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJ8HRPWC

Do you use slides in your presentations? If so, do you use them in a way that helps your listeners immediately understand their meaning and how it supports your talk, or do they confuse your audience or otherwise distract from your talk? In this episode, you’re going to hear a few ideas that will make your next presentation more engaging and professional.

Takeaways

- How reading your slides kills your engagement

- When you should turn the lights down

- When to use black slides

- The Captivating Public Speaker available on Amazon

Have you ever seen speakers who appear almost grateful to stand behind lecterns? It’s fairly common because many speakers believe lecterns -- no matter their size -- shield them from their audiences. Yup, it’s another security blanket.

Tune into this brief QuickBites episode and learn how you can make a greater connection with your audiences by coming out from behind the lecterns.

As the saying goes, it’s not if something will go wrong, it’s when something will go wrong. So, what are you going to do when something unexpected happens while you’re speaking? Have you ever thought about how you might respond to the inevitable? If not? You should.  

Now, you can’t be prepared for every conceivable instance because you won’t think of all the possibilities ...