Comments on: Public Speaking Skills — Reacting To Your Audience http://www.humorpower.com/blog/2006/07/public-speaking-skills-reacting-to-your-audience/ Better thinking -- Better speaking -- Better living Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:47:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Dick Brandt http://www.humorpower.com/blog/2006/07/public-speaking-skills-reacting-to-your-audience/#comment-1833 Dick Brandt Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:27:06 +0000 http://www.humorpower.com/blog/2006/07/public-speaking-skills-reacting-to-your-audience/#comment-1833 We react to the audience and to performing, and the audience can smell fear and isn't free to enjoy themselves. Tony Robbins says confidence is mostly body language - acting confident, expecting (not hoping for) to do well, and knowing that being able to see hear and think mean we are already a success. Part of the body language of confidence is pacing .........and ....... pausing. Jack Benny was complemented on his timing. He said he didn't know much about timing. He just said a line when he thought it should be said. It seems to me, that if we worked on doing this, we would be demonstrating a fearlessness that the audience would find interesting, and that we could use to anchor confidence. We could build this by saying "Yes" when we did it right and "Yes" when we recognized that we didn't. We react to the audience and to performing, and the audience can smell fear and isn’t free to enjoy themselves.
Tony Robbins says confidence is mostly body language - acting confident, expecting (not hoping for) to do well, and knowing that being able to see hear and think mean we are already a success.

Part of the body language of confidence is pacing ………and ……. pausing.

Jack Benny was complemented on his timing. He said he didn’t know much about timing. He just said a line when he thought it should be said.
It seems to me, that if we worked on doing this, we would be demonstrating a fearlessness that the audience would find interesting, and that we could use to anchor confidence. We could build this by saying “Yes” when we did it right and “Yes” when we recognized that we didn’t.

]]> By: Jill http://www.humorpower.com/blog/2006/07/public-speaking-skills-reacting-to-your-audience/#comment-1829 Jill Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:41:55 +0000 http://www.humorpower.com/blog/2006/07/public-speaking-skills-reacting-to-your-audience/#comment-1829 Hi, I'm really enjoying your newsletter and I have forwarded some of the editions onto members of the Toastmasters club I belong to. I'm certainly learning a lot about humour and speech delivery in general. thanks Jill Hi,
I’m really enjoying your newsletter and I have forwarded some of the editions onto members of the Toastmasters club I belong to. I’m certainly learning a lot about humour and speech delivery in general.

thanks

Jill

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