Breath leadership 4: Using breathing to help you control the room, tigers or no tigers
So far in this series we have looked at how you breathe in response to the stress of public speaking together with techniques to help you be more confident when speaking. Also how controlling your breathing helps build your audience’s confidence in you. How about using your breathing to also help you control the conversation, […]
Breath Leadership 3: breathing on your audience…
So, what effect does taking a good breath have on you? Perhaps more importantly, what effect does it have on your audience? For you as the speaker, this is what happens when you start with a good breath: When you breathe deeply, you are making fuller use of your diaphragm, which is a dome-shaped muscle […]
Breath Leadership 2: exercise is good for you!
How do you breathe? Or rather, how do you breathe when you are under pressure? How do you breathe when you arrive at the point in the room where you have to stand, have to face the audience, have to speak? If at any point in your past you have been involved in amateur singing, […]
“It’s not you, it’s me” – Why business presentations can fail…
To put it bluntly, your audience is not remotely interested in you. In what you can do for them, yes, but not in you. Abandon the oft excruciating ‘darling’ suffix from “It’s not you, it’s me” and we’ve segued from classic failed relationship to classic failed business presentation, a topic that has cropped up several […]
So how will you leave your audience feeling?
You’re giving a presentation in the morning, perhaps to clients, perhaps an internal meeting. Your notes are ready, your slides are prepared, you’ve rehearsed. What could be missing? To quote from Maya Angelou, “people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”. […]