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5 Ways You Are Unknowingly Killing Your Credibility

5 Ways You Are Unknowingly Killing Your Credibility

There are many factors that can impact on your credibility, but your non-verbal cues and your language patterns can undermine your credibility without you even being aware of it. Here are five areas that may be subtly impacting on the way people perceive you...

How to Take Your Presentations From Good to Great

How to Take Your Presentations From Good to Great

During a recent Professional Speaking Association event Patricia Fripp, award-winning keynote speaker, business presentation expert, sales presentation skills trainer and in-demand speech coach, put presentations under the microscope and offered advice for how to make a good presentation great. Here is an overview of her top tips...

How to Make Your Speech Come Alive Using Subtext

How to Make Your Speech Come Alive Using Subtext

Famous Russian actor and theatre director, Constantin Stanislavski was quoted saying, ‘Spectators come to the theatre to hear the subtext.’ The use of subtext is used in acting to communicate so much more than just the words and the technique can also be used to give life and meaning to your presentations and connect with your audience on another level...