How slowing down your speech can communicate power and confidence

How do you act with power?

Below ** is one mindset that you can use, to act with power. I have mentioned the mindset in prior posts.

I repeat it again because, my recent reflection of the mindset, and acting in accordance with the mindset – has notched up the impact of how I present myself and communicate my ideas.

I also repeat it, because in our time-poor world, the pressure to speed up your speaking cadence, to be afraid to pause and to not, feel deserving of the time you’re taking when you speak, is relentless.

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Always tell your audience how long you’ll be speaking for – and stick to it!

I was at a presentation a few weeks back. I was invited to attend by a client. There was no agenda for the function.

The first speaker opened her presentation. The speaker said, a few minutes into the presentation rather casually, as if she wan’t going to present for too long – that she would talk for about 20 minutes.

At the 20 minute mark I was expecting her wrap up. But that didn’t happen. The presentation went for about 40 minutes.

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Q&A is not the time to make a speech

A few weeks ago I went to Stanton Library in North Sydney to hear author Alexandra Smith give a presentation about her recently published book, The Secret

Smith fielded questions after the presentation.

One questioner rose from his chair with a A4 pad of paper in hand. (Always a worrying sign). The man rambled for over 60 seconds repeating his question three to four times interspersed with free association commentary.

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