The Power of Silence Helps You Communicate Your Message More Effectively “You have to become comfortable with pause,” says Featured Speaker E.G. Sebastian. Pauses are powerful. They bring many benefits to your presentation. In this post, I’ll share five of them. 1. Pauses improve understanding When you read, you know […]
This episode of the Public Speaking Super Powers Podcast features Carma’s interview with Meg Waters, a public speaking coach to executives and politicians, as well as a speechwriter. [powerpress] Podcast Highlights Length: 17 minutes, 12 seconds Meg Waters says the most important part of giving a presentation is the audience: […]
This episode of the Public Speaking Super Powers Podcast features Carma’s interview with E.G. Sebastian. E.G. started his career in management in 1990 as a general manager and 49 percent owner of a Chinese-Hungarian export-import company. Later he moved on to a now more than 15-year career as a speaker […]
Have you ever experienced a time warp? You have if you’ve felt you were being silent for too long during a speech. For the speaker, silent moments often appear longer than they do for the audience. In this video excerpt from a workshop for teens about public speaking, I talk […]
When I was studying belly dance, one of the things I learned was the power of stillness … those moments in a dance where you hold a pose, are still and not moving. It is those moments of stillness that lend power to the movement of the dance. The same […]
Any given presentation is composed of two things: sounds and silence. The words you speak are the sounds, and the pauses in between are silence. Did you know that silence can be as powerful as words? It is all in where you put the pauses and how long you […]
