by Doreen Downing | Mar 14, 2010 | 7 Steps to Fearless Speaking, Find Your Voice Blog, Public Speaking Tips
You can be a fearless speaker! First, realize that we are all public speakers. Whether you are giving a presentation at work, sharing your opinion at a meeting, or talking to someone one-on-one, you are expressing yourself. The question is, do you feel comfortable and...
by Doreen Downing | Mar 3, 2010 | Find Your Voice Blog
Fearless Speaking is Confident Speaking After a recent training on Fearless Speaking, a seminar where I teach you how to be confident whenever you speak, one of the participants watched his video and reported witnessing his transformation from fear to authenticity. A...
by Doreen Downing | Feb 27, 2010 | Fear of Speaking, Find Your Voice Blog, Public Speaking Tips
Ums and Ahs are Fillers That Point to Public Speaking Anxiety Did you know that ums and ahs are fillers that point to an underlying public speaking anxiety? Once you are aware of this fact, you start to listen more carefully to speakers. You might notice that when...
by Doreen Downing | Feb 24, 2010 | Find Your Voice Blog
The Unconscious Habit Much of what is written about fillers such as uhms and ahs states that they are an unconscious habit. The sounds, words, and phrases that fill up the silences are for the most part not even recognized by people as they speak. Unconscious means...
by Doreen Downing | Feb 20, 2010 | Book Reviews, Find Your Voice Blog, Leadership and Public Speaking
What is Authentic Speaking? A workshop participant who attended Leadership Presence:Â How to Inspire Groups to Action wrote this note to me and my training partner, Lee Glickstein, founder of Speaking Circles International. “I want to say a huge thank you...
