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		<title>Average Speakers Suck. Don&#8217;t be Average.</title>
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If you are an average speaker, you suck.
So do all of your colleagues with average presentation skills.
Let&#8217;s see why this is so&#8230;
Cookies and the Cookie Police
Suppose you are baking cookies. After mixing up the dough, you scoop up a bit with your fingers, roll it into a ball, and plop it on the cookie sheet. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>15 Tactics to Establish Ethos: Examples for Persuasive Speaking</title>
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Your speaking ethos is critical to ensure that your audience is present, listening, and open to being persuaded by your ideas.
But, how do you maximize your ethos for a given speech and a given audience? Is ethos fixed before you open your mouth? Is there anything you can do during a speech that makes a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review [2010-02-06]</title>
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Twice each month, Six Minutes weekend reviews bring you the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere.
Please share them with anyone you feel would benefit from the tips and techniques.
This review features topics including:

recently released public speaking books;
storytelling and details;
remedies for voice malfunctions;
handling hecklers;
thanking the audience;
cartoons in presentations;
rehearsal strategies;
a speech critique of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psst! Readers&#8217; Speaking Confessions and Lessons</title>
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Have you ever fainted in mid-sentence?
Have you ever shown up for a 1-hour seminar only to be told you had to give it eight times in a row?
Have you ever had your blouse pop open while speaking?
These were just a few of the confessions shared by Six Minutes readers in our contest to win a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Ethos and Why is it Critical for Speakers?</title>
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Is your audience listening even before you speak your first words?
Do they have high expectations?
Are they prepared to be convinced by what you have to say?
If not, you are suffering from poor ethos.
The first article in the Ethos, Pathos, and Logos series introduced these core concepts for speakers.
In this article, we define ethos, we look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Win a Book! Share Your Public Speaking Confessions</title>
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Last week, we reviewed Scott Berkun&#8217;s latest book, Confessions of a Public Speaker.
I asked Sara Peyton over at O&#8217;Reilly (the book publisher) for a few copies for Six Minutes readers, and she kindly agreed.
Now, you can win one of three copies by sharing your own public speaking confessions!

What speaking lesson did you learn the hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethos, Pathos, Logos: 3 Pillars of Public Speaking</title>
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2300 years ago, Aristotle wrote down the secret to being a persuasive speaker, the secret which forms the basis for nearly every public speaking book written since then.
Do you know the secret?
If you don&#8217;t, you might be wondering what a 2300-year-old theory has to do with public speaking in the year 2010.
In a word &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Confessions of a Public Speaker (Scott Berkun)</title>
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Confessions of a Public Speaker is a highly entertaining and insightful insider&#8217;s view of public speaking, with value for speakers of all levels.
This article is the latest of a series of public speaking book reviews here on Six Minutes.

What&#8217;s Inside?
The Price
What I Loved
How could it be better?
What Others Think
Verdict

What&#8217;s Inside?
 
Based on the provocative title, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review [2010-01-15]</title>
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Six Minutes weekend reviews are back for a third year of bringing you the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere.
This review features topics including:

speechwriting lessons from Martin Luther King Jr.;
structuring your presentation logically;
becoming aware of your voice;
benefits of a flip chart;
mistakes with visuals;
speaker habits;
stages in a professional speaking career;
and more!

From the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does Your Personal Brand Say About You as a Speaker?</title>
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Imagine&#8230; you are the speaker that people want. They crave your expertise, and they are willing to pay you for it.
A dream? Not if you understand how to brand yourself as an expert, one of the steps to becoming a speaker in demand.
In this article, we tap into the wisdom of five experts from the [...]]]></description>
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