As we are heading into a brand new year, we thought we’d take a few moments to share a few of our most popular public speaking bogs this year.
Whether you’re just starting your public speaking journey, are a nervous speaker or simply want to catapult your career in 2025, there are some very helpful tips shared in 12 of our most popular public speaking blogs this year.
If you’re a nervous speaker it’s worth knowing that more often than not our audience can’t see, hear or feel our anxiety anywhere near to which we experience it. Strangely, many will experience quite the opposite. It’s a phenomenon we encourage you to give some thought to. This article was written almost 10 years ago but remains just as pertinent and true today.
Presenting to senior management can feel like a challenge for many presenters in organisations today; even the most experienced.
Focusing on the 10 priorities shared in this article has been extremely helpful to many of our clients and readers.
“um,” “ah,” “hmm,” “like,” “you know,” and “obviously”
If you’re one of the countless people we help every year with these and many similar public speaking and presenting challenges, you’ll find this article extremely helpful as many of our readers have this year.
Although we called this blog ‘ The beginners guide,’ we believe that the reason it’s one of our most popular public speaking blogs this year is because the 4 tips are of great value to very experienced speakers too.
Mindful Presenter was created over a decade ago fuelled by a combination of frustration, curiosity and passion. Much of this revolved around the question we kept asking ourselves, ‘Why are so many highly intelligent, creative and talented business professionals still delivering such bad presentations?
You’ll find many of the answers and solutions in this article.
I have never met anyone who likes the idea of listening to their own voice. Many people say they have never really done it or even thought about it. We wrote this article because whilst we understand the anxiety many people feel when listening to a recording of their own voice, we believe that it’s critical if we really want to develop our public speaking skills. This article explains why.
Unless you have a fear or significant discomfort around public speaking, many people don’t think about the benefits of getting themselves some training or coaching.
We can think of a great number of reasons why so many people would find training invaluable and this article sets out our top 20 reasons.
It’s no surprise to us that this is in the top five of our popular public speaking bogs this year. It was written almost 5 years ago and has been one our most popular public speaking blogs since then.
The powerful 16 tips we share in this article will unquestionably help you to stand out from the crowd when presenting your ideas.
Questions can be a major source of anxiety for many presenters.
In our presentation skills courses we are often asked to help people to answer questions more professionally. It’s a much bigger issue than many people think. This article sets out the reasons for the discomfort but more importantly some highly effective solutions.
This article was only published a couple of years ago but is in the top 3 of our popular public speaking bogs because it challenges and sets the record straight on some longstanding and troublesome public speaking myths. For example, It’s a myth that great speakers are born with the ability to connect confidently and easily with a room full of people.
At Mindful Presenter we believe that passion is the ‘jewel in the crown’ of high impact presenting and public speaking. It’s interesting that this is number 2 in our popular public speaking bogs this year because it’s about the passion of a 7 year old girl, Molly Wright.
Senior professionals all over the world 4, 5 or 6 times Molly’s age have also been trained and still struggle to speak as passionately and eloquently as Molly does. Many are good at sharing data but not always adept at demonstrating that they understand the full meaning of their content.
I think Molly does!
Number 1 – 7 lessons from Barack Obama that will make you a better presenter
This article was published in 2018 and perhaps it always one of our most popular speaking blogs and takes first place simply because former President Barack Obama is noted for his public speaking excellence.
The 7 lessons shared in this article are incredibly simple to understand but transformational when applied.
Thank you to all of our readers for your very kind and generous support again this year, We really hope that there are some ideas shared in our final blog of this year that will contribute to your public speaking success in 2025 and beyond.
If you’d like help with your public speaking & presentation skills in 2025:
– Book yourself onto a powerful public speaking course.
– Invest in some really good one to one public speaking coaching.
– Get yourself some excellent presentation training
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