by Tina Blake | May 28, 2021 | Powerful Video Presenting Tips
The good, and bad, news is that speaking on zoom and speaking in a room have lots in common. Your body language speaks louder than you do, whether face to face on in 16:9. How we hold ourselves, move our hands, or smile, shouts at our audiences. They may not know...
by Tina Blake | May 10, 2021 | Public Speaking Tips
When it comes to public speaking advice, it’s right to focus on the big things: breathing control, body language, speechwriting skills. These fundamentals are necessary to be a success – and, though they can be mastered more easily than many think, they obviously take...
by Tina Blake | Mar 23, 2021 | Powerful Video Presenting Tips
You don’t need me to tell you that speaking from home can feel very different to doing so from a stage or in the same room as an audience. There are some shared skills between the two formats, of course: diction still matters a lot, telling a story can still be the...
by Tina Blake | Mar 1, 2021 | Powerful Video Presenting Tips
Lockdown doesn’t need to be a disaster for communication, or an excuse for poor quality presentations. There are plenty of ways for us to still be engaging and impactful, even at a distance. Of course, normally you thrive on live feedback, on thinking on your feet and...
by Tina Blake | Nov 17, 2020 | Speech-writing
Great public speaking normally involves telling a story and often an anecdote will help make your message sticky. Anecdotes help create authenticity, which helps an audience connect with you on a deeper level, encouraging trust. You can have all the professional or...
by Tina Blake | Oct 20, 2020 | Speech-writing
Audiences are moved by the power of human communication. That means great use of voice, diction, breathing and body language. It’s also true, however, that great speeches start on the page. All the rhetorical skill in the world cannot make a badly written speech soar...
by Tina Blake | Sep 21, 2020 | Public Speaking Tips, Speech-writing
We’ve all heard the cliché about “lies, damned lies and statistics”. We live in a sceptical age, and we’re used to speakers of all kinds manipulating numbers to burnish their argument. You can make statistics say anything, right? Well, yes and no. Numbers are complex:...
by Tina Blake | Sep 7, 2020 | Public Speaking Tips
Facing redundancy? Now may not seem the right time to start a new business but sometimes your best option is to start up on your own. However, attracting funding is going to be particularly hard this year – so the best way to get a loan is to do it face-to-face...
by Tina Blake | Aug 7, 2020 | Video
Yes, lockdowns are easing, but, don’t plan on leaving the Zoom room any time soon. Online presenting will be the norm for a while yet. There’s been a lot written about Zoom fatigue, and it’s real. We click from one call to another without giving ourselves time to...
