Lisa Waite
| Special to the Canton Repository
What is Glossophobia? Here’s a hint: It exists as a common human condition experienced by the likes of popes and presidents.
It strikes terror in approximately 70% of the population, often accompanied by sweaty palms, a racing heart, stomach upset, increased perspiration, and brain fade. This conundrum of communication complexities c…….
Glossophobia, the fear of public speaking, is a common fear, but there are treatment methods and coping skills that can help you cope.
Effective public speaking is a skill set that requires good communication and engaging others effectively. You have to know how to sustain an audience’s attention and engage them in what you are saying.
It also requires you to understand communication skills, such as tone and…….
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Local youth participated in the National Future Farmers of America Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana over the course of Oct. 24-29.
Each state is only represented by one team in each
event.
• The Agricultural Communications team placed eighth overall and was gold ranked. Team members gave a spoken media plan presentation and completed a practicum of either a feature story, blog post, v…….
This column is an opinion by Alberta farmer and blogger David Cymbaluk. For more information about CBC’s Opinion section, please see the FAQ.
About a year ago, I wrote that Alberta’s United Conservative Party was fracturing along ideological lines that had been papered over by Jason Kenney’s choice to unite two conservative factions.
Since then, Kenney lost a leadership vote in May on a nearly perfect split of the party and Dan…….
Do you ever feel like people tune you out? Or worse, find you boring? The good news is that it likely has less to do with what you’re talking about and more to do with your delivery.
When we observe someone speak, we’re listening for two things: Confidence and emotion. Confidence is a powerful cue that makes people take you seriously. Emotion is an aspect of warmth, and makes people find you interesting.
As a body language and pub…….
Got an engineering senior design project to pitch? Prepping to make a persuasive argument in your public policy class? Or need to explain your business plan to your fellow entrepreneur students over at the business school?
A new campus resource is helping students overcome the anxieties related to public speaking.
The COM Lab is a partnership between UNLV’s communication studies department and Academic Success Center…….
Nwanacho Nwana, co-founder of education start up Valfee.
Valfee
Employers continue to shout for employees and job candidates with strong durable skills such as critical thinking, creativity, resilience and communication and presentation abilities. That demand has pulled open doors for schools, private enterprises and entrepreneurs to teach or enhance those crucial skills.
The problem has long been …….
GREAT BARRINGTON — It says a lot about Mark St. Germain’s generally ho-hum new comedy, “Public Speaking 101,” from Great Barrington Public Theater, that its funniest moments come not from St. Germain’s writing but, rather, the between-scenes film and video clips of public speaking gaffes by a variety of public figures.
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Got an engineering senior design project to pitch? Prepping to make a persuasive argument in your public policy class? Or need to explain your business plan to your fellow entrepreneur students over at the business school?
A new campus resource is helping students overcome the anxieties related to public speaking.
The COM Lab is a partnership between UNLV’s communication studies department and Academic Success Center…….
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