Use Headline Cards to Improve Your Speeches

Written by Arthur Cooper


Use Headline Cards to Improve Your Speeches By Arthur Cooper (c) Copyright 2003

Here is a simple and effective aid to confident and professional delivery when speaking in public. Are you making use of it?

The first golden rule to follow if you want your speech or business presentation to flow smoothly and spontaneously, is not to read it word for word from a written script. Your speech will sound stilted, and you will be looking down at your notes most ofrepparttar time when you should be looking at your audience.

But unless you can memoriserepparttar 104960 entire talk as an actor would memorise his lines you are almost certainly going to need something to help you rememberrepparttar 104961 vital points that you want to make.

That previous statement holdsrepparttar 104962 key. All you need is a reminder ofrepparttar 104963 vital points of your speech,repparttar 104964 main headings.

The filling in between can be added spontaneously atrepparttar 104965 time of delivery. If you know your subject well enough you will find thatrepparttar 104966 infilling can quite safely be left unscripted and you will have no difficulty providing it when needed. You do need to know your subject, though. You can’t escape from that.

If you are less confident, then keep a scripted speech as ‘standby’ in case you get stuck and need to refer to it to get going again, but do try to do without it when you give your talk. Justrepparttar 104967 fact of having this emergency script available in case of total blockage will give yourepparttar 104968 confidence necessary to succeed without it.

However, you still need something to remind you ofrepparttar 104969 main and important topics of your talk, and this is where ‘headline cards’ come in.

Make the Most of Your Mentoring Relationships

Written by Judith Lindenberger


Makerepparttar Most of Your Mentoring Relationships By Judith Lindenberger

Mentoring is one ofrepparttar 104959 best ways to learn, to get feedback, and to take your career torepparttar 104960 next level. Here are ten tips for makingrepparttar 104961 most of your mentoring relationships.

Tip #1 Self-assess. Ask yourself, "What skills do I need to get where I want to go?"

Tip #2 Identify your learning goals. Put them in writing.

Tip #3 Decide together howrepparttar 104962 mentoring relationship will work - frequency and type of contact.

Tip #4 Commitrepparttar 104963 time. Don’t give up ifrepparttar 104964 chemistry doesn’t feel right atrepparttar 104965 first meeting. Meet a minimum of once per month. Touch base regularly - by e-mail, phone, in person.

Tip #5 Take time to build trust and communication. Get to know each other on a personal level. Discuss your backgrounds, interests, career histories, and perspectives of your organizations.

Tip #6 Keep confidences. Nothing kills trust in a mentoring relationship faster than a breach of confidence.

Tip #7 Be sensitive to cultural and gender differences. Do a little homework. And listen.

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