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December 5, 2013 by Stacey Rodgers Leave a Comment

Jiggling the Mouse & 4 Other Keys to Adult Learning

Jiggling the Mouse & 4 Other Keys to Adult Learning

 

Anyone who has ever had to give a presentation, teach or lead a workshop… knows how difficult it can be to deliver your message AND have it received by the most hardened species of all, adult learners. Here are the five things you must know about adult learning:

 

Jiggle the mouse

Adults can only pay attention to one stimulus for about 20 minutes at a time before they start to tuning out. Just like your computer falls asleep after disuse, so do our brains and we need to jiggle the mouse to wake it up. Try switching your presentation style: move from delivering a lecture to asking questions about the content, insert a video or get the participants up and moving in an activity. Even something as simple as moving around the room as you are talking will encourage participants to follow you with their eyes, ears and bodies, unwittingly “jiggling their mouse”.

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July 2, 2012 by Ernest Leave a Comment

The Business of Public Speaking: Interview with Tod Maffin

The Business of Public Speaking: Interview with Tod Maffin

business of public speaking

I recently recorded an interview with a professional speaker I’ve admired for a while, Tod Maffin. He works in the digital marketing space with private and government organizations. We crossed paths while speaking at a real estate conference last year and just now had the chance to connect. I personally picked out a ton of extremely valuable tips and ideas from our interview and I’ll share some with you below.

You can get access to the full interview in MP3 once you join The Speaker’s Life community (sign-up form is below this post). Just scroll down to the Special Bonus section of the page once you sign up. Here is some of our discussion, edited for the blog format.

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June 23, 2012 by Ernest 5 Comments

32 Public Speaking Tips From Some Of The World’s Best Speakers and Coaches

32 Public Speaking Tips From Some Of The World’s Best Speakers and Coaches

Public Speaking Tips

I am incredibly excited to share this post with you!! It took a couple of weeks to pull all the material together and now you get a chance to pick through public speaking tips from some of world’s most sought after experts and speakers like Carmine Gallo, Garr Reynolds and Nick Morgan amongst more then 20 other contributors from a SpeakerMatch group.

When reaching out to these professionals, I asked two questions:

  1. If you were to start as a speaker all over again, what one thing would you do differently?
  2. What one tip would you have for someone just starting on their journey as a professional speaker?

The goal was to give you real world, actionable advice you could take and implement in your speaking practice immediately. Below is a selection of those answers:
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