I just read this article by Kyle Tanner and I absolutely want to share it with you as I agree with him 100%. I have seen too many speakers fail on stage because of lack of preparation. Please speakers on events, I love to guide...
This picture you see is my youngest son. The picture was taken last summer at the Pukkelpop festival. He was 8 years old then and it was his second festival because the year before I had taken him to Werchter. I truly believe he was...
Your presentation starts the moment you stand up! I did a training yesterday where the goal of an exercise was to 'connect' with the audience. The subject was not that important, it was all about connecting. So someone started doing his introduction though it was...
I know Katrien for years now from our studies at university Ghent where we both studied English. She recently did a TED talk and I was really amazed how well she did it because I know she is not an experienced speaker and she only...
I rarely remember names but I remember faces very well. And when this guy walked into the training room some 2 weeks ago I knew he had been in my training before. So I checked and I was right and the logical question for me...
How do you deal with stress the minute before you go on stage? Listen to the presentation tip that helps me again and again… [embed]https://youtu.be/4fx3DHPME-k[/embed]...
Not just athletes sweat when they need to perform, so do speakers. For an athlete this is quite normal, and actually it is for a speaker as well, though not that convenient. Speakers sweat even before the actual ‘performance’ because we feel a threat. And I...
This morning I heard something great on the radio. Two women were interviewed who were training to be in the next winter olympics in 2010 with the for us fairly unknown discipline, bobsleighing. Their current top speed was 130 km per hour. The interviewer asked...
Christ'l Joris is voorzitter van de raad van bestuur van ETAP. Zij leerde een les van haar vader die ze altijd onthouden heeft: "Wees zelfzeker, een beetje zelfvertrouwen kan geen kwaad. Je moet zorgen dat je gezien wordt, niet in één of ander spektakel, maar...