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5 Essentials for Powerful Presentations 17:28) Presentations can be dull for audiences. People feel nervous when presenting. Peter Quarry and Eve Ash cover five essential areas for powerful presentations. These include memorable ways to commence, managing anxiety, being succinct and sign-posting information, maintaining audience engagement, relaxed body language, telling a story and finishing with a bang.
Just Say It! Exploring the Fear of Public Speaking (73:00) The average person, it’s said, feels more anxiety about talking in front of a group than about dying. So what drives some people to get up and give speeches? How do they overcome their fear? This program follows a young filmmaker named Luke King as he confronts the fight-or-flight aspect of public speaking and tries to determine solutions for it. Meeting with participants in a prestigious youth speech competition, King learns about each speaker’s preparation process—emotional, physical, and academic—and records their presentations. He also interviews a wide range of experts in motivational speaking, politics, and the performing arts, leading to historical, linguistic, and media-related insights.
Public Speaking: Principles of Public Speaking—Audience and Listening Skills(33:57) In this video, learn about listening skills that influence both the delivery and reception of speeches. Critical listening skills allow audiences to understand and analyze speeches, while audience feedback provides speakers with valuable information about the reception of material.
Public Speaking: Time to Stand (27:00) n this program, Dr. Tina Dupree, president of the Motivational Training Center and founder of the Professional Speakers Network, shares her proven techniques for building confidence as a public speaker. How to turn fear into an asset, master the art of small talk, create a "30-second commercial," assess an audience, choose the right words, organize a speech, improve delivery, and other topics are addressed, along with the ten dos and don’ts of creating a winning speech. Guest speakers include Arlene Hoffman of International Sales & Marketing; Bradley Johnson of Johnson Partners Research; and retired pro football player Roy Foster.
Public Speaking—Informative and Persuasive Speeches (35:17) In this video, learn different strategies for writing and delivering two types of speeches: persuasive and informative. Though the speeches are similar in composition, tools like multimedia clips and emotional appeals are used in different ways to wow audiences.
Relaxation for Public Speaking (01:31) We've all been there. Public speaking can be a terrifying. Learn how to calm your nerves before you take the stage.
Speaking Essentials (25:00) Statistics suggest that many people dread public speaking more than they fear death. This program shows students ways to overcome that kind of paralysis and transform it into positive energy. These include thorough preparation (from learning the wants and needs of the audience to scoping out the location at which the speech will take place) as well as starting with a strong opener, finding the right pace, using nonverbal communication, and more. Part of the series Communication Essentials. (25 minutes)
TEDTalks: James Geary—Metaphorically Speaking (09:00) Lost jobs, wayward lovers, wars and famine—for just about any of life’s curveballs there’s a metaphor, and James Geary has got it. In this TEDTalk, the wordsmith waxes on about this fascinating fixture of human language, bringing scribes from Aristotle to Elvis into the discussion. But this isn’t just about grammar. “Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate, learn, discover, and invent,” Geary says. “Metaphor is a way of thought before it is a way with words.”

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