Guests of Your Intended Message, talk about their experience and the topic of their conversation on the podcast with host, George Torok.
The Top 10 Challenges of Virtual Presentations
Have you noticed that it’s more challenging to deliver a virtual presentation than a real world (in-the-same-room} presentation?
It’s not your imagination. Delivering a virtual presentation is much more challenging for several reasons. Let’s review the missing pieces, then see what we can do about it.
Improve Your Self Introduction at Networking Events
Introduce Yourself using this Simple and Powerful Format
Have you struggled with that awkward moment when you’re expected to introduce yourself? It might be at a networking meeting, workshop or conference. It might even be that challenge at a business or personal function when you are asked, “What do you do?”
Why is Public Speaking Important to You?
If you’re talking and someone else is listening, it’s public speaking.
Why do you speak? Who do you present to? How might that help your career or business? What do you hope to achieve? What would it mean to be more effective as a public speaker? Why is public speaking important to you?
What Did Clients Say about How George Torok Helped?
Testimonials from clients. How did Executive Speech Coach, George Torok help these clients? What did they say about how they improved their communication and presentation skills?
Presentation Mechanics: The Three Gears of your Presentation
Your presentation leverages three gears – Content, Structure and Delivery. Mesh these three gears for a successful presentation.
Master the Pause to become a Powerful Communicator
It might be the most difficult communication skill, the dramatic use of silence. Consider that the most effective technique is to say nothing. That means, that sometimes, you need to stop talking. The use of the dramatic pause might be the most powerful tool in your communication toolbox.
Why do Zoom presentations suck and what to do about that?
It’s not your imagination. Zoom or virtual presentations do suck both figuratively and literally. They sap energy and magnify flaws. Presenting online is challenging. What might you do to improve? Understand the challenges, adapt your presentation delivery, and enhance your skills.
Five Habits of Effective Public Speakers
Imagine your success when you consistently deliver more effective presentations. You can do that when you develop the habits of effective public speakers. Success in any pursuit is the result of establishing smarter habits. Study and adopt these five habits of effective public speaking.
The Impact of Negative Trigger Words
What’s a negative trigger word? That’s a word or phrase that derails your message by sending your audience off on a tangent. That might be an intellectual tangent or an emotional tangent. It’s the emotional tangents that are most destructive because it’s almost impossible to get your audience back after you trigger their emotional tangent.