Speak With Confidence
Speak With Confidence and Remove All Doubt
In today’s fast-moving communication-driven world, messages are conveyed through many mediums. “Speaking with confidence” means avoiding tentative language. Non-concrete or tentative language in business shows a lack of self-confidence and will not deliver the strength of your intention to the listeners. For example: Non-concrete – “I hope I’ve given you a good overview of our team.” Concrete – “This gives you a clear overview of our team.” Non-concrete – “I guess I can deliver this
Controlling Nervousness and Working with Visual Aids
This video covers how to control the fear of public speaking and how to work with visual aids. In 2002, Apple Computer partnered with The Speech Improvement Company Inc., to promote better public speaking. Dr. Ethan F. Becker flew to Cupertino to record this 30 minute webinar, which lived on Apple’s website for the next 6 years! We hope you find it helpful. Runtime 30 min. Apple Computer and The Speech Improvement Company from SpeechImprovement
Crisis Management
Dr. Ethan F. Becker teaching Crisis Management at the RAZAK School of Government in Malaysia. The intention of the seminar was to help leaders understand how to communicate effectively during crisis situations. When leaders and managers are not prepared to communicate predictability, safety, and control, the results can be devastating. Author Dr. Ethan Becker View all posts
What’s in it for listeners?
Prepare & Organize for Business Speaking Tell the listeners why they should listen to you talk about this topic. Whether or not they ultimately agree with you, how do you expect them to benefit by listening? Some benefits that you might mention as reasons why they should listen to you include: Making their jobs easier. Improving their health. Relieving stress. Stimulating creativity. Providing security. Increasing their income. As a speaker, you should be
TSIC is the Winner of the American Resident Project’s Pitch-Off
Laurie Schloff, winner of The American Resident Project’s Connected Health ’15 Pitch-Off, discusses how The Speech Improvement Company uses emotion-sensing technology to help people overcome their anxieties with public speaking. The Connected Health ’15 Pitch-Off challenged clinicians and clinicians-in-training to pitch creative ideas that improved health through the use of emotion-sensing technologies. Author Dr. Ethan Becker View all posts
Master Job Interviewing Skills
From the archives… Download interview with confidence audio-only mp3 professional studio recording. Master Job Interviewing Skills: After 911 in 2001, many clients of The Speech Improvement Company (TSIC) were out of work. To respond to this shift in the economy, TSIC created a 2 hour workshop open to the general public and free of charge to teach people how to master job interviewing skills. This public service had become popular and private presentations were requested by
TSIC 50 year anniversary video
Enjoy the video celebrating 50 years of helping people communicate! Author Dr. Ethan Becker View all posts
How do best in class organizations prepare speakers
Senior Speech Coaches Laurie Schloff, Tori Hollingworth, and Dr. Ethan F. Becker are on-site at a conference and during a break got together to share the “behind the scenes” of what happens at big conferences. How do those speakers nail it? It may look like they are winging it, but very few do! How do best in class organizations prepare all of their speakers? Find out how and why on this episode of Talking about Talking!
What Google can learn from Communication Coaches
A recent New York Times Magazine article (Group Study by Charles Duhigg 2/25/16) discussed the Google Project Aristotle, a painstaking, in-depth study of what differentiates high functioning team meetings from stagnant, ineffective ones. With all due respect Author Laurie Schloff View all posts