Practice Does Not Make Perfect

  18 Reasons Why People Are Afraid Of Public Speaking Matt Kramer Overcoming Fear ,  Public Speaking I know intimately the gut-wrenching, free-falling feeling of glossophobia (fear of public speaking) and I know many more who have dealt or currently deal with it now. Two words:  it sucks! One of the most important things you can do when it comes to problem solving, is to  IDENTIFY  the problem. Many of the reasons we humans fear public speaking are universal and well-known; many others haven’t even been defined. I decided to compile a list of the most common fears people have of public speaking in order to help bring them out into the open.  Some are in a league of their own but you’ll also notice that several of the fears listed below are mixtures of one or more of the others. See if you can relate to any of them. Let's get started:  1 .  Being judged People form opinions of just about everyone they come into contact with....

  But you won't know it. You won't know if your team is falling apart. That seems to be the one giant challenge in todays virtual, distance learning, minimal control, invisible connectivity among employees and contractors. Many companies and organizations have lost that ability to know about their team. Why? Why has this happened? Article after article, white papers abound sharing that methods for effective communication but the real fact of what is happening is loss of direction. Your leadership might know their direction, the managers and supervisors know their directions, even the employees/contractors have a decent idea about direction but what is missing is the connectivity that brings all of those together. Everyone talks about disseminating workplace information, how to communicate within a virtual workplace, and even the challenges of poor team communication but no one really addresses how to fix it all. What is the answer? Wait, what is the question? Is your team falli...

  I come today to ask, when was the last time you got frustrated by a business not running a business out of their business? Doesn't make sense? Please read on because so many people wonder why they cannot grow their business. I pride myself on being a great speaking coach. I teach people how to create sales and success by being a great presenter. Much of what I add for value is helping people in running a more successful business. So probably like a whole lot of you folks, I get completely freaked when so many small businesses have no idea how to run their business. And when we ask if they would like help they say, no. It's like trying o teach most corporations how to create great managers. Oh, all of our managers are great!  And that is where our lives crack wide open and we freak! Why don't people want help? Why don't more small businesses invite, ask, demand help to be a lot more successful?  Do you realize that business itself does not create business? It takes peo...

  We always want our next speech to be the best ever, don't we? Then why do we worry so much? Because the challenge we face is that virtually no one is teaching us how to give a great talk. Talk! Please note there is a difference. A talk is shared while a speech is delivered. Make your next speech your best speech ever. If you are giving a speech to your board of advisors or to a college commencement address then you are delivering the information that is also being handed out for reference material. That is a speech. Delivering specific data maybe for people to reference. But when you give a talk, in front of a group, to a meeting of your peers or even to your leadership you want more than anything to not be boring! We could go over all of the fears we must face as presenters and all of the obstacles we need to overcome but the most important thing in any of these areas is to not be boring! OMG! We have all sat through boring! No one tells them they are boring. No shares how they ...

 What is a Mastermind? One of the greatest mistakes I hear people making is referring to a Mastermind like it's a networking or facebook group! (no facebook does not deserve to be capitalized) What is a Mastermind? People ask, how many people would you like to have in your mastermind? And people put anything from 20 to 100! I read a few posts where people said, as many as I can. Nope.  A Mastermind is supposed to be a small group of successful people who get together to share their success or challenges in their business and help others in their group learn from their success or help in their challenges. That is accomplished with ideas, helpful advice and mentorship what creates more success for people in that group. It typically consists of 6-10 people at the most. There are three types of masterminds - one where you might be the least successful and truly want to learn and grow. Many masterminds look to help the businesses and people who seem to have the most promise and are...

  Great Managers Are Made Not Born Practice Does Not Makes Perfect We have all heard the phrase, practice make perfect  Right? Not right.  We hear that advice in so many areas. But think about it. Does that make any real sense? I train speakers to be excellent, and what I hear when they come to me is, I was told to practice! Great! But it's like golfers who have a bad swing. If you keep practicing your bad swing what do you get? A bad golfer with an exceptional but still bad swing.  The first thing you have to do is learn the right way to do something.  Learn the right way to present your idea, to speak, to connect with your audience. Learn the right way to share a story and make Storytizing a huge part of your success. Learn how to share, move, connect, engage, involve your audience by telling them stories using their memories, their emotions, and their experiences.  Of course it's your story but talking about you is boring to most people unless you are an...