In any setting where two or more people communicate, vocal variety is essential — and it’s even more important in virtual settings where it’s easy to lose your audience’s attention. This topic, and many others, are covered in my newly released companion e-guide: Speak...
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A few months ago, I was scheduled to give an in-person keynote at a conference in Washington, DC. I developed and practiced my content and traveled to the hotel with a feeling of excitement — I was thrilled to once again be back in person after two+ years of virtual...
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Remote work has changed how we interact in business environments. It’s made us learn how to effectively communicate over virtual and hybrid settings and has also significantly limited our in-person public speaking experience. While our in-person soft skills...
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I loved interviewing my colleague Casey Carpenter for my second LinkedIn Live session. For years, Casey has partnered with us at Global Public Speaking to help our clients build confidence in their most important speaking situations. Given how many of our clients...
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Our CEO Allison Shapira recently wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review. A few years ago, David was giving a talk at the National Speakers Association on the topic of trust. Standing in front of a room full of professional speakers, he made a bold assertion:...
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In light of the devastation caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, our CEO Allison Shapira wrote this article for the Harvard Business Review. How do we manage our teams when a global, geopolitical crisis weighs heavily on our minds? There are atrocities...
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What a great experience doing my first LinkedIn Live video! I decided to launch this “Speak with Impact” series to address some of the most common challenges my team and I were hearing in our workshops and coaching sessions. If you can’t join one of our...
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For our final blog post of the year, I wanted to share a few updates in addition to our top public speaking tips of 2021. What started as a solo business exactly 9 years ago is now one of the world’s foremost training and consulting firms in public speaking and...
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Thank you to Sai Blackbyrn for highlighting our Founder/CEO Allison Shapira as one of your Top Public Speaking Coaches for 2021. You can read more about her and others here: https://coachfoundation.com/blog/top-public-speaking-coaches
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In a recent LinkedIn poll we conducted, an overwhelming majority of respondents wanted to be able to be more concise. Why is brevity important? The more concise you are, the more you can engage an audience’s attention to deliver a powerful message. The more...
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