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Speaking & Confidence

This is a living collection of resources that I share with my Personal Effectiveness MBA class and
Coaching clients for developing public speaking, presentation skills, executive presence & confidence.

Please contact me here if you would like to discuss how you may go further in this topic, watch my videos about how Executive Coaching can help you or Group Coaching can accelerate your team's effectiveness.

Please use the comments section at the foot of the page to suggest resources you have found useful on this topic and I'll add them for the benefit of others.

‘There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.’ — Pliny the Younger

Self-Assessment

 Assessment: What’s Feeding Your Fear of Public Speaking? 

Articles

The Human Factor

A Key to Better Leadership: Confident Humility

In Praise of Incoherence

The ins and outs of good breathing and better communication

These are the most effective ways to develop and use confidence at work

How leaders can (and should) overcommunicate 

How to speak in public

5 Tips that Will Make You a Better Storyteller

Let’s bring humour to work (no kidding)!

Narrative Genres in Error and Failure Stories: A Multimodal Study of F**kup Nights Videos

Storytelling in Business: How to Tell Engaging Stories

Workplace ‘impostor thoughts’ may have a genuine upside

Get Psyched: How Time and Situations Shape Our Communication

5 Communication Practices to Boost Teamwork, Productivity, and Morale - TLNT

PowerPoint® Presentation Flaws and Failures: A Psychological Analysis

The Science of Strong Business Writing

How A Position Of Power Can Change Your Voice

Our Addiction to Charismatic Leaders Needs to Stop 

4 Key Steps to Preparing for a Business Presentation

7 Leadership Lessons Men Can Learn from Women

Exploring what an interruption is in conversation

 This is how to tell a crisis recovery story (while leaving out the doomsday narrative) 

 Don’t Focus on the Most Expressive Face in the Audience 

 Gravitas Is a Quality You Can Develop 

 The Hidden Social Advantage 

 This is how tiny changes in words you hear impacts your thinking 

How to Cure Your Dread of Public Speaking

 How to Become an Authentic Speaker 

 When You Pitch an Idea, Gestures Matter More Than Words 

 Kinesthetic Speaker: Putting Action into Words 

The Power of Talk: Who gets heard and why

 How to Give a Killer Presentation 

How to Manage Your Fear of Public Speaking

 Matt Abrahams: Tips and Techniques for More Confident and Compelling Presentations 

Clear writing mean clear thinking

 What Do You Mean I Can't Write? 

 Telling Tales 

 Necessary Art of Persuasion 

Change the Way You Persuade

How to Pitch a Brilliant Idea

 Learning Charisma 

 How to Stop Saying “Um,” “Ah,” and “You Know” 

 What's Your Story? 

Want to provide better feedback, introduce people, or master small talk? Try this technique.
 
Be Better at Spontaneous Speaking

 Telling a good innovation story 

 5 Ways to Project Confidence in Front of an Audience 

 Hit the Mark: Make Complex Ideas Understandable 

 6 Ways to Look More Confident During a Presentation 

 How Consultants Project Expertise and Learn at the Same Time 

 How to Tell Your Team That Organizational Change Is Coming 

 The dark side of charisma 

 The Science of Pep Talks 

 How to Identify and Tell Your Most Powerful Stories 

 Nancy Duarte: How to Get Others to Adopt Your Recommendation 

 Make the Most of Your Virtual Communications 

 The Body Language Mistakes You Don't Realize You're Making at Work, According to Experts 

 How to Blow a Presentation to the C-Suite 

 How to Get Others to Adopt Your Recommendation 

 To Give a Great Presentation, Distill Your Message to Just 15 Words 

 How I Overcame My Fear of Public Speaking 

 Six Steps to Communicating Strategic Priorities Effectively 

Humour: 36 Signs You Pulled this Presentation Together at the Last Minute

 Early Edutainment: The Behavioral Scientist’s Guide to Fairy Tales 

 Are you outspoken at work? How to use your voice — and not get fired 

 The Secret to Great Communication: Be Like Aristotle 

 To Overcome Your Insecurity, Recognize Where It Really Comes From 

 The Confidence Trick 

 The culture of overconfidence 

 Breathing Is the Key to Persuasive Public Speaking 

 Improve Your Public Speaking with a More Effective Mindset 

 4 Small but Powerful Mental Shifts to Become More Confident 

Do you say "Sorry" too much ?

 Tap into the power to persuade by using these 6 techniques of clear and compelling speech 

These gestures will improve your next presentation 

 Stories Can Be Powerful Persuasive Tools. But It’s Important to Understand When They Can Backfire. 

 Choose Charts Everyone Understands | Nancy Duarte 

 Yes, there is a right way to write an email — here are some simple rules 

 How to Get Others to Adopt Your Recommendation | Nancy Duarte 

 To Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking, Stop Thinking About Yourself 

 Five Common Communication Mistakes (And How to Fix Them) 

 How to Look and Sound Confident During a Presentation 

 10 principles for leadership presence 

 A Confidence Illusion: From Facade to Competency and Learning! 

 Irv Grousbeck: The Power of “I Don’t Know” 

7 ways to be a better communicator — by tweaking your body language

 Storytelling is a powerful communication tool — here’s how to use it, from TED 

 The skill you need now: presentation literacy 

 6 dos and don'ts for next-level slides, from a TED presentation expert 

 How to explain anything to anyone: 4 steps to clearer communication 

 Which of these habits is keeping you from being a great communicator? 

 Before your next presentation or speech, here's the first thing you must think about 

 Storytelling is a powerful communication tool 

 A Confidence Illusion: From Facade to Competency and Learning! 

 How to fight off your inner critic 

 Is There A Case for Lowering a Leader’s Confidence? 

 Something We Can All Agree On? Corporate Buzzwords Are the Worst. 

 Great Storytelling Connects Employees to Their Work 

Books

I Have Something to Say

 Speaking Up without Freaking Out 

 Confidence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt 

 The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking 

 The Right to Speak: Working with the Voice 

 Presence: How to Use Positive Energy for Success in Every Situation 

 The Charisma Myth: Master the Art of Personal Magnetism 

Clear Leadership

 The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength 

 Ultimate Presentations: Master the Art of Giving Fantastic Presentations and Wowing Employers 

 How to Handle a Question You Don’t Want to Answer 

 The Introvert's Guide to Great Presenting 

 How to Answer an Unanswerable Question 

Audio

Recipes From the “Communication Kitchen

Executive Presence Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All. Here’s How to Develop Yours.

 Podcast: Knock Your Next Business Presentation Out of the Park 

 Be confident. Not cocksure 

 It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It: How to Communicate Power 

Feelings First: How Emotion Shapes Our Communication, Decisions, and Experiences

Videos

Kendall Haven on Story Proof: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story

Question Your Questions: How to Spark Creativity in Your Communication

Quick Think: How to Use Body Language When Confronting Objections

Public Speaking Without Fear

Richard Cox defines Executive Presence

Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are

Take Control of Your Nonverbal Communication

More Confident Compelling Presentations

Effective Body Language for Public Speaking

Body language, the power is in the palm of your hands

 What the Pros Know About Public Speaking 

 Improve Your Leadership Presence 

 How to Tell a Story 

 How to speak so that people want to listen 

Julian Treasure's Voice Exercises

How to Start a Speech 

 How to avoid death By PowerPoint 

Audio: Power Cues - New Science on Influencing Others

 Make the Most of Your Virtual Communications 

3 Top Tips for Overcoming Nerves When Giving Business Presentations

 Improve Your Presentation Skills by Avoiding These 3 Common Mistakes 

 Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Professor Herminia Ibarra 

 3 Steps to Better Presentation Visuals 

How Apologies Kill Our Confidence

 Speak like a leader 

 The 110 techniques of communication and public speaking 

 I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou 

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