Speaking linkfest
I read tons and tons of public speaking this and that, and I’ll give you the best stuff I find each week:
- 8 states of mind for public speaking. Many books on getting over speaking fears go into meditation and visualization techniques, which are often way too fancy. Here’s a simple list of ways to think about what you’re doing right before you do it.
- 4 stepping stones to practice. Recommends panels, (which we ripped on here) as a way to get started. It seems easy to find forums for speaking as long as you have expertise in something – is this really a problem?
- Learning to speak. Fantastic piece by William Gurstelle, of backyard ballistics fame, about his experiences speaking on the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship (!). Great, great read.
- Body language and Pythons silly walk. One of my favorite speaking blogs so far is The Arrowood curve, by speaking coach Steve Arrowood. This post is about a great exercise to understand how you move, that includes a reference to the silly walk from Monty Python (yes!).
April 25th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Thanks for linking to my post on “stepping stones for public speaking practice”–and, while I agree with you that many panels are disastrous, I think you missed my point. Many novice speakers are just looking for brief opportunities to speak, not *any* opportunity, so that’s what my post was designed to suggest. And expertise is no guarantee of a speaking opportunity, for many would-be speakers.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Here is a really practical article about public speaking that has helped me quite a bit… http://blog.changethis.com/changethis_newsletter/2009/05/5806-before-you-open-your-mouth-the-keys-to-great-public-speaking-by-nick-morgan.html