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J. Douglas Jefferys

J. Douglas Jefferys is a principal at http://PublicSpeakingSkills.com, an int'l consulting firm specializing in training businesses of all sizes to communicate for maximum efficiency. The firm spreads its unique knowledge through on-site classes, public seminars, & high-impact videos. Web or 888-663-7711
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Public Speaking - The Number 1 Fear Part II

Fight or Flight When the hypothalamus, which regulates most bodily functions, receives the threat signal, it sends a group of hormones to the pituitary gland at the base of your brain This in turn releases hormones that activate your adrenal glands, which sit on top of your kidneys - a spot ideally centralized in the body to make for the shortest trip to all parts of the body for the adrenals' output: adrenaline

Public Speaking - Let's Get Physical

Passion Although developing proper eye-contact technique and learning how and when to pause are absolutely essential to acquiring "The Skills" - you're not finished yet The last element involves adding the emotional to the mechanical

Public Speaking - Lock, Talk & Pause

The process that sets you on your way to speaking like the best speakers in the world, speakers who possess The Skills, goes like this: You find a target in your audience and you lock eyeballs You deliver a complete thought to that one person, and then you do the hardest part, you pause

People who get paid well to speak all share one of two traits: either they're famous, or they own "The Skills" To be able to move people who don't know you as a celebrity of some sort, you must know how to keep your audience focused on you and your message, and how to keep them on the same page, on the same wavelength, every step of the way

Public Speaking - Masters of the Pause Part II

An Inconvenient Speaker We have made the claim many times that Bill Clinton is the Master of the Pause In fact, we have said that it is exactly this mastery that causes more people in polls to name the former president as the greatest living public speaker hands down

Public Speaking - Masters of the Pause Part I

It's common to believe, when you listen to great speakers at work, that certain people are simply born with the talent to speak well, and therefore no amount of training or practicing is going to transform you into a great speaker, no matter how hard you try And while it's true that both John Kennedy and Bill Clinton have what most people don't - charisma - their ability to speak as they do was not part of what they were born with

Public Speaking - Learning to Say, "I Don't Care!"

Early in the movie, The Fugitive, Officer Gerard catches up with Dr Kimball near the outlet of a high dam

Public Speaking - One Person, One Thought, One Pause

Perhaps the most difficult thing for speaker to learn is knowing when and where to stop speaking When you pause, you establish the pace from the beginning of your talk

Presentation Skills - Three Points and Your Out!

Organizing Your Presentation Before organizing your presentation keep reminding yourself that Less is More Also consider that most presentations have far too many concepts, and the concepts far too many details

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