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publicspeakersuniversity.com Presentation skills as Andy Harrington gives free training by teaching what he does while speaking to 6000 people at London's 02 Arena Nobody can avoid the mastery of presentation skills if they want to be considered a true authority in their chosen field. Simply because you cannot master that industry unless you can lead and educate a group of people. But within the remit of 'presentation skills' there is a vital sub set of skills that you must master and thats what this video is about. It is my strongly held opinion that your openness and vulnerability as a human and a speaker is also your greatest asset. When nervous or stressed about speaking many people put on a speakers 'persona' and then become two different people dependent upon whether they are speaking in public or not. This incongruency can be seen or felt by the audience. What sets the really best speakers as different from the others is congruence and absolute certainty. If this is the most important feature of the best presentation skills here are the most important skills that make this complete. - Eye Contact What happens when most people make a presentation to a live group they start by scanning the entire room or audience with their eyes usually with quick-fire rates of speaking... normally driven by the adrenalin of the associated presentation skills needed when speaking to a group. But this 'widescreen' rapid scanning of the audience is a only likely to disappoint and ...

When there's only one person around in a situation, they're much more likely to lend assistance to people in need, whether it's to help pick up something they're dropped or something more important like warn them they're about to step into traffic, etc. When there's a group of people, though, no one acts. They all expect someone else will do it, so no one volunteers or pauses. This is honestly a chilling video to watch. I don't have kids but it catches my breath when the two men catch on that something's going on and without any verbal communication between them, only similar body language (ie their mutual movement in that direction) it's amazing to me that, while they're both intently watching the man they are approaching, there is a single second when they Both launch into action, again without communicating anything verbally, but something triggers the same response from both men. How fascinating! It reminds me of wild lions in Africa who are following their prey but something simultaneously all animals involved and they leap to action. I'm teaching a Social Psychology class right now and am really getting intrigued by the idea of how we send and receive communication without speaking. What is it about that situation that influenced those men though others around them didn't bother? And what was it in that single second where they both jump into a run? Was it that the man let the girl's arm go and started to run off himself? It's amazing to me. See what you think? I ...