Did you know that they used to teach children communication skills up until about 200 years ago? Yup. It was a priority. Children learned to make their case, the art of conversation (small talk), how to introduce themselves and others, and much more. Ever wonder why you have a hard time giving a presentation? Why …
It’s more complicated than you may think to speak clearly in all situations. So don’t be hard on yourself if you’re not communicating well all the time. Have you ever felt like you talk too fast or use too high of a pitch? Or maybe you use too many words, and you end up getting the glaze over, …
Do you ever find yourself with good (or even brilliant!) ideas that you want to share, but when you try to articulate them, your message doesn’t come out as mellifluously as you imagined? Did you ever finish your presentation, sit down & later realize you forgot an important concept you wanted to deliver? Have you …
I’ll tell you something right here and now: nobody was born an amazing speaker. To this day, no one is a perfect communicator. No one is a perfect speaker. We humans have only just begun to use speech. Scientists believe we only started speaking 50,000 years ago. Our human ancestors date back to about 4 …
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People get furious at themselves when they don’t speak well in a meeting! Or if they don’t get their message across perfectly. People actually think they should be incredible communicators in high-stakes situations. The truth is they shouldn’t be excellent speakers. Unless they learned the techniques and learned how to put them into practice. “I’m …
Do you have ideas you attempt to convey that don’t come out the way you need them to? You’re in a meeting, you have something brilliant to say, and it doesn’t come out right. You may have spoken too fast, forgotten what you wanted to say, or the words just came out wrong! Or how …
How many times have you decided upon resolutions and given up by April? And then you feel like a giant failure? You get really hard on yourself, right? Your goal was to lose weight, so you decided to eat smaller portions or stop eating carbs. Then by March, you’re at an Italian restaurant with friends …
Do you ever feel like people don’t understand you? Perhaps they ask you to repeat? Or maybe they’re understanding you but you don’t feel like you’re making an incredible connection? Everyone needs to improve their speech–native & foreign-born speakers alike. If your goal is to be an A-list actor and you need to have no …
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Do you need to assert yourself more? Perhaps you don’t speak up for yourself. You let your ideas, however brilliant, go unsaid. Or possibly you do assert yourself, but you come across as aggressive. Or rude, even. Neither of these is helpful at all for your career or your relationships. So if you’re sitting around …
Do you have ideas you’re trying to convey to others, and you just can’t seem to express yourself? Do you ever feel like you can’t even tell a story? You could be in the middle of telling a story, and you keep overexplaining and using way too many words. Or you never can get to …
