‘How can I make sure I speak naturally?’ clients often ask me. I love that question. ‘What does it mean to you to speak naturally?’ I reply. Answers go from ‘not speaking to fast’, to ‘I don’t know why but I speak with another voice when I am in front of an audience’, to ‘speak […]
Get rid of Public Speaking anxiety once and for all
An immense value and potential lies in the ability of being able to effectively communicate your ideas in front of a group of people. In my public speaking training there is a common thread among many participants: fear. Since I am a competent communicator at Toastmasters and I regularly speak for an audience for my […]
Does your speech suffer from the Curse of Knowledge?
Have you ever experienced the following: You are having a conversation with someone, and you seemingly agree on a topic. You’re both nodding and saying “‘yes, yes” … only to find out a few minutes into the conversation that you were not talking about the same thing at all. Another example. Imagine that — without […]
Get rid of online bias when you organise a webinar and perform like a pro
Avid fans among my newsletter readers remember that I am fascinated by cognitive biases. Today I am writing about a cognitive bias, which I call online bias. Online bias Online bias: online tasks, in reality not so different from their off line version, are mistakenly perceived as more difficult compared to their off line counterpart. […]