Speakers Weekly Tune Up: How To Improve Your Speaking Skills Every Day by Madeline Frank, Ph.D., DTM

After you make an important point “pause” and let your audience “reflect” on your statement. When you ask your audience a question pause afterwards and let them think or reflect on it! If you say something “funny” pause afterwards and let your audience “laugh”. You have heard the line, “Don’t step on your joke.” Practice your speech out loud pausing in the right places. Also by recording your practice session and listening back you will hear if you have “paused” in the right places! Please share your thoughts and comments about this blog. Until next week remember to practice pausing when you want your audience to reflect on something you have said to make your story memorable and visual. Madeline Frank,  Ph.D., is  a 2014 Certified World Class Speaking Coach. She has been coaching and mentoring business professionals to be champion speakers for over 5 years.  She is an  Amazon.com  Best Selling Author, speaker, business owner, teacher...

First get rid of your notes. Move the podium away so there are no barriers between you and your audience. Next, practice “re-living, re-telling” your stories in dialogue, like a movie to connect with your audience. Remember how do you get to Carnegie Hall?  Practice, practice, practice! Please share your thoughts and comments about this blog. Until next week remember to practice your speech by re-living it, internalizing your speech    to make your story memorable and visual. Madeline Frank,  Ph.D., is  a 2014 Certified World Class Speaking Coach. She has been coaching and mentoring business professionals to be champion speakers for over 5 years.  She is an  Amazon  Best Selling Author, speaker, business owner, teacher, and concert artist. She helps businesses and organizations "Tune Up their Business". Her observations show you the blue prints necessary to improve and keep your business successful.  Her l...

Your movement is prompted by your story. Move to show action. On stage create a place for a time line, for past, present, and future. On stage you move from   “right to left”. If you have three stories each story has a place for you to go on the stage. Remember you need to move only a few steps.   When your speech is a “Problem/solution” speech have two places on the stage. The right side of the stage is for the problem and the left side is for the solution. Remember you need to move only a few steps. At the conclusion of your speech when you call back to each story, you gesture back to where you told your story originally. In my story “Quietly Walk Away From A Snake”   -When my husband walks quickly to our boat to open the battery hatch- I show this by quickly walking to a point I have “decided on” the stage and make the motion for opening the boat hatch. (Walking forward and to the right a few steps.) After he sees “the 3 large black snakes” he quietly leans...

Everyday in your life things happen to you and around you. Keep a little notebook with you, to write down the stories that happen to you, during your day at work, with your family, friends, or at other times. Just write down a line or two to remind you and jog your memory for later. If you don’t write it down immediately, you will forget it. It does not have to be a complex story to be helpful to another person.      Please share your thoughts and comments about this blog.      Until next week remember to start "writing down a line or two  of your  stories" to incorporate into your speeches to make your story memorable and visual. Madeline Frank,  Ph.D.,  is  a 2014 Certified World Class Speaking Coach. She has been coaching and mentoring business professionals to be champion speakers for over 5 years.  She is  an Amazon.com Best Selling Author,  speaker, business owner, teacher, an...

Just like in a movie each character has a different voice. When you tell a story you are acting out the different characters by changing your voice for each new character. A man’s voice will be deeper. A woman’s voice will be higher and a child’s voice has a child like quality of excitement about it. How do you talk to a baby? Does your voice get quieter and do you speak a little higher? When you are telling a story with different characters, you will want to practice your different characters voices and move slightly for each different character. When you are talking to a friend about a serious topic you will at times, speak faster and more excitedly to get your point across. Your friend will also vary the speed of their voice with the excitement they are trying to get across to you. The volume might be a little higher than normal because of the excitement! When you are “sharing a secret” with your friend you will lower your volume and speak more quietly, even when it is ju...