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Category: Psychology
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The Role of Mood in Public Speaking: 6 Strategies for Success
You can’t avoid being in a bad mood. It is an inevitability of life. It can ruin your day, end your productivity, and worse… it can happen on the day of your most important presentation. Do not panic yet! Let’s take a look on how to understand and control it. There are situations you can…
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“Tell me about yourself.”
Do you remember that first day of school, when the teacher would ask you to stand up and “Tell the class about yourself.”? You would probably close your eyes, take a deep breath, and wish very hard that some natural catastrophe would destroy the whole school at that very moment. Now that you’re an adult,…
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Fight your anxiety: allow yourself to be bad.
Self-deprecated humor is a shield most comedians use to fight their insecurities and anxieties. They learn how to laugh at themselves to raise their confidence. Like them, we all have insecurities that will harm our performance if we don’t find a way to deal with them. Why are we so scared when stepping up a…
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When Success Feels Stolen: The Battle Against Impostor Syndrome
“I’m not good enough for this.” “What am I doing here?” “I’ve got everything I have by luck.” “What if they find out I’m not that good?” “I’m a fraud. I don’t know how to do this.” Have any of these thoughts ever crossed your mind? How many times? Having second thoughts or developing a…
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Cracking the Code: Mastering Audience Profiling for Effective Communication
“Know your audience.” How many times have you heard this advice and wondered what it was supposed to mean? To know as much as we can about our audience helps us establish a strategy to reach them more easily. So, what exactly should you know to help you through the preparation process? Keep in mind…
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Projecting confidence – How to create a stage persona
When do you think about a stage persona or alter ego? You probably think about artists – especially musicians. It is pretty common for them to change their real names and create a persona for the public. You can find plenty of outstanding stage personas, like Bob Dylan, Elton John, Lady Gaga, or some more…
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Has a year of lock-downs affected your communication skills?
During the past year, the world around us changed drastically, and it had a devastating effect on many aspects of our lives. As socially evolved beings, humans use communication skills to interact. What happens to these skills when almost all interactions are virtual? Communication and relationships Effective communication is the basis of healthy relationships. During…
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Networking Bingo – a game for those that hate networking
Speak your way to success. That could be a good slogan for networking. Approach people, talk a lot – make connections. For many of us, a networking event is a scary (and mandatory) task from which we would gladly escape. I hate networking! What is it, and how do I do ‘networking’? Good networking involves…
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Do stress it. How to find the right level of stress
Most of us start to feel anxious, nervous, before a chance to speak in public. It is the stress kicking in, and you want to get rid of it. Yet, should you? Stress is a normal human reaction. Our body is designed to experience it and produce physical and psychological responses to its symptoms. It…
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Creating slides: What do colors have to say?
For most people, it seems impossible to prepare a presentation without slides. Building them is a work of patience, and all details are important, especially the colors. They are also sending a message. Due to the world health situation we’re living in right now, most presentations are on-line, through virtual platforms. Often, slides are the…
