Clients often ask me to help them slow down, or to sound more dramatic or authoritative. The answer to these three very different concerns, is surprisingly the same: It’s to add pauses between your thoughts. Why Pause? Because You and Your Audience Both Need a Break! My husband told me a story that’s attributed to the Read More
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Public Speaking Tip 26: Uhm, Lose Those, Like, Filler Words, Y’Know?
To uhm is human; to pause, divine. —Shakespeare OK, The Bard didn’t quite say that. But he might have, if he’d been deluged with the uhm’s, uh’s, like’s, y’know’s, whatever’s, and really’s we all hear everyday. Sometimes, we even hear them coming out of our own mouths. Perish the thought — or rather, the uhm. What’s the Read More