http://www.artipot.com/authors/11520/j-douglas-jefferys/ Latest articles by J. Douglas Jefferys from Artipot - your one-stop resource for free articles. http://www.artipot.com/articles/176801/public-speaking-the-number-1-fear-part-ii.htm Fight or Flight When the hypothalamus, which regulates most bodily functions, receives the threat signal, it sends a group of hormones to the pituitary gland at the base of your brain This in turn releases hormones that activate your adrenal glands, which sit on top of your kidneys - a spot ideally centralized in the body to make for the shortest trip to all parts of the... Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:46:54 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/176801/public-speaking-the-number-1-fear-part-ii.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/176751/public-speaking-lets-get-physical.htm Passion Although developing proper eye-contact technique and learning how and when to pause are absolutely essential to acquiring "The Skills" - you're not finished yet The last element involves adding the emotional to the mechanical Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:54:09 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/176751/public-speaking-lets-get-physical.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/176749/public-speaking-lock-talk-pause.htm The process that sets you on your way to speaking like the best speakers in the world, speakers who possess The Skills, goes like this: You find a target in your audience and you lock eyeballs You deliver a complete thought to that one person, and then you do the hardest part, you pause Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:47:41 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/176749/public-speaking-lock-talk-pause.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/176167/public-speaking-owning-the-skills-part-ii.htm In order to present at the top, in order to acquire The Skills, you must remember three rules that govern everything you do whilst presenting They're really quite simple, but sometimes it's easy to forget the simple things, and these rules must remain in the forefront of your consciousness at all times Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:19:30 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/176167/public-speaking-owning-the-skills-part-ii.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/175773/public-speaking-owning-the-skills.htm People who get paid well to speak all share one of two traits: either they're famous, or they own "The Skills" To be able to move people who don't know you as a celebrity of some sort, you must know how to keep your audience focused on you and your message, and how to keep them on the same page, on the same wavelength, every step of the way Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:05:26 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/175773/public-speaking-owning-the-skills.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/175762/public-speaking-masters-of-the-pause-part-ii.htm An Inconvenient Speaker We have made the claim many times that Bill Clinton is the Master of the Pause In fact, we have said that it is exactly this mastery that causes more people in polls to name the former president as the greatest living public speaker hands down Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:39:56 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/175762/public-speaking-masters-of-the-pause-part-ii.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/175718/public-speaking-masters-of-the-pause-part-i.htm It's common to believe, when you listen to great speakers at work, that certain people are simply born with the talent to speak well, and therefore no amount of training or practicing is going to transform you into a great speaker, no matter how hard you try And while it's true that both John Kennedy and Bill Clinton have what most people don't - charisma - their ability to... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:53:48 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/175718/public-speaking-masters-of-the-pause-part-i.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/175475/public-speaking-learning-to-say-i-dont-care.htm Early in the movie, The Fugitive, Officer Gerard catches up with Dr Kimball near the outlet of a high dam Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:12:20 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/175475/public-speaking-learning-to-say-i-dont-care.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/175474/public-speaking-one-person-one-thought-one-pause.htm Perhaps the most difficult thing for speaker to learn is knowing when and where to stop speaking When you pause, you establish the pace from the beginning of your talk Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:04:59 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/175474/public-speaking-one-person-one-thought-one-pause.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/175472/presentation-skills-three-points-and-your-out.htm Organizing Your Presentation Before organizing your presentation keep reminding yourself that Less is More Also consider that most presentations have far too many concepts, and the concepts far too many details Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:54:03 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/175472/presentation-skills-three-points-and-your-out.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/175454/presentation-skills-organization-is-key-part-iv.htm In Part III we discussed the four different types of evidence you can use: Personal, Statistics, Example, and Analogy Each has its good points, and the type of evidence you choose will depend on both your topic and your audience Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:40:42 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/175454/presentation-skills-organization-is-key-part-iv.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/175424/public-speaking-top-10-tips-part-i.htm Know that public speaking is the number one human fear So if you have ever been or are a bit nervous about giving presentations in public, realize you are not alone Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:19:24 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/175424/public-speaking-top-10-tips-part-i.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/175100/presentation-skills-organization-is-key-part-iii.htm In Part III we discussed the importance of making sure that you tell your audience what your solution or recommendation is immediately after announcing the problem or opportunity at hand Audiences absolutely need to know where you're going from the beginning in order to put into proper perspective the evidence you unfold Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:33:35 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/175100/presentation-skills-organization-is-key-part-iii.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/175061/presentation-skills-organization-is-key-part-ii.htm Opening with a "Bang" You've got at most 30 seconds to give your audience a compelling reason to sit up and listen to what you've got to say, or you've lost them to their Blackberries or Suduko Now that they're listening, you've got to structure what you're going to say in a way that makes for the easiest possible path for them to follow Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:12:01 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/175061/presentation-skills-organization-is-key-part-ii.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/175039/presentation-skills-organization-is-key-part-i.htm We begin with Part I of a 4-part series on organizing the sequence of your presentation so that your information creates maximum impact on the audience Getting off the right start is absolutely critical Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:26:16 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/175039/presentation-skills-organization-is-key-part-i.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/175031/public-speaking-top-10-tips-part-ii.htm Know that public speaking is the number one human fear So if you have ever been or are a bit nervous about giving presentations in public, realize you are not alone Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:01:03 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/175031/public-speaking-top-10-tips-part-ii.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/174916/public-speaking-knowing-when-to-stop-part-i.htm The Pause In our classes we have participants work through a number of exercises, and people quickly learn that indeed, it's much more comforting when you can give your presentation to one person at a time When you get to the point where instead of trying to crank your whole system up, you actually look at one person at a time, letting everything else go, you start a process... Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:47:09 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/174916/public-speaking-knowing-when-to-stop-part-i.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/161621/public-speaking-the-physiolgy-behind-the-fear.htm Mark Twain is often quoted as saying, "There are two types of speakers, those that are nervous and those that are liars" As it turns out what was true in Mark Twain's time is still true today Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:18:24 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/161621/public-speaking-the-physiolgy-behind-the-fear.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/161584/public-speaking-eye-contact-exercises.htm Modern presentation theory espouses a conversational approach to presenting, because that's the way to maximize both comfort and trust between you and the audience The conversational approach, a modern refinement of the humanist style first made popular in western cultures by president John F Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:39:05 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/161584/public-speaking-eye-contact-exercises.htm