Are you ready to be connected under any circumstances? If you are going to make a presentation, do you have what it takes to connect up your presentation with the AV at the venue under any circumstances? I’m sorry if you are listening to this on my podcast you cannot see this bunch of cables I have in my hand. I urge you to jump onto my website www.sholakaye.com/blog and check out this episode there because you will be able to watch it all in video format... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

Shortcuts to Public Speaking Success

77. Behind the scenes: AV for your presentation

Do you ever feel that your voice doesn’t cut through? Perhaps because it’s too breathy?  One of the problems with a breathy voice is you don’t get very much volume when you’re speaking. Another problem with having a very breathy voice is that it can become fatiguing to listen to by the audience... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

76. Exercise for a breathy voice

Is it time for you to tone it down a bit for your audience? Interesting question, right? I’m going to explain a little bit more what I mean in just a moment. Just recently an agency contacted me, they’re based in Miami, and they asked me if I was available to do a professional speaking gig. I was available so I said yes... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

75. Do you need to tone it down?

I want to ask you today have you eaten the food of champions before? If you haven’t then you need to stay tuned and watch the entire video. And I’m not talking about Atkins diet, or whether you’re a vegan, or whether you are… I don’t know there’s so many different diets out there… I’m not talking about dieting. I’m talking about the food of champions which is otherwise known as feedback... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

74. Eat the food of champions

When you speak and perhaps you forget a couple of words, or it doesn’t go as perfectly as you had hoped, do you beat yourself up? Do you sometimes find you are judging yourself while you’re speaking and you can’t be 100% present with the audience and focus because that little negative voice is chatting away? Today I want to share a tip that you can use. A little hack that will help you to stop judging yourself... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

73. How to stop judging yourself

Do you need to speak slower when you are in front of an audience? That’s the question that I am sometimes asked so let’s have a chat about it today, shall we? A few years ago, I was participating in online dating and I went on a date with a guy who spoke really slowly. So slowly that after about five minutes on the date I was desperate to get away... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

72. Should you slow down?

Are you through a person that continually wants to improve at whatever it is that you do, speaking being one of those things? If so, then I’m going to share a little step by step process you can use to regularly improve your public speaking... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

71. How to keep improving

Have you been asked to speak on a panel? I know some people love speaking on panels and they like that group aspect to it. Others, like me, prefer to have a more conventional speaking format and just speak on my own to the entire audience. There are different reasons why we like one or the other. Typically, if you’re on a panel there are a few different things to look out for... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

70. How to ace panel discussions

Do you have a deadline for improving your speaking? I have a few tips for you coming up if you’re under a bit of pressure to improve your communication in your public speaking. What we’re going to talk about today are some of the areas that you may want to look into if you are under pressure to improve your communication ready for a big moment, a big event, or a high-stakes meeting or high-stakes conference... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

69. Six key areas to help you improve

Are you adding the human touch to your speeches? Now, we all know that the robots are here. There’re here and there are going to be more of them coming, but you don’t need to be one. What do I mean by that? Well, one of the things that makes us as speakers different than perhaps using Siri or Alexa is... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

68. Don't forget to be human

Are you the world’s pre-eminent expert on widgets and you have a speaking opportunity coming up and you want to share everything you know? EVERYTHING! Well in today’s video podcast I want to share why that may not be the best thing for your audience... READ MORE  Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

67. How to avoid audience overload

How do you make your talks more engaging and more interactive? That’s what we’re going to look at today. If you have a formal topic and you're finding it hard to plan in some interactive activities, what’s an easy way that you can use to get people involved throughout?... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

66. How to make your speech more interactive

Are you struggling a bit with your public speaking? You are struggling with your public speaking. What’s the difference between those two? Well, in the first situation, of course, I asked. And in the second situation I told. We’re going to look today at the difference between asking and telling your audience and the impact that this has upon them... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

65. Remember to ask don't tell

When you stand up to do a bit of public speaking, do you ever feel like “oh, I don’t have the confidence to do this… I’m not good enough… I shouldn’t be here…”. Well, today I want to share a tip with you, a little hack if you like, that will hopefully diminish and reduce those feelings of lack of confidence. So if you bear with me for just a moment I’m going to share that hack with you... READ MORE. Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

64. A quick and easy confidence hack

When you create a speech or write presentation, do you know what the purpose of it is and you know which of the five categories of speech that it falls into? That’s what I get to discuss today... READ MORE. Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

63. Five different speech types

Improve your public speaking now. Enhance your career or business with these quick to implement tips from speaker trainer and international performer, Shola Kaye.