Category: Presenting

How to Handle Awkward Questions When Presenting

Mindset is very important when presenting.  You have to believe the audience is on your side.  Before you present, you must tell yourself that any questions you get from the audience, are coming from a place of ‘wanting to understand’ the content you are presenting and ‘seeing it from their perspective’.  If you are already...

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“Let us not search for an ‘external fix’ but identify with the solution that resides deep within.”

Dear Readers, I am still processing the excitement of being invited to speak at a recent Tedx conference.  Never have I been so doubtful or self-critical.  With a well of anxiety in my stomach and a vision of – my message – potentially being somebody else’s medicine, I said a little prayer and I carried...

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