The Just Jez Vlog – Just Presenting
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Public Speaking Secrets: Read Aloud
Improve your vocal variety: Read aloud Improve your public speaking by reading aloud Here's a tip for improving vocal variety when speaking in public, whether that's virtual or live. Try reading a book. Aloud. Pick 3 pages and record yourself reciting the text to your...
How to present – look straight ahead
Not just at the invisible audience! Intentional intent The other day I was watching someone deliver a particularly pertinent and passionate speech. Except that I was distracted and found it very difficult to focus on the key messages. The reason? There was virtually...
How to present – preparing for a speech (1)
Go for it (you'd better be good) or prepare yourself! Fail to prepare and prepare to fail! You know, you really can deliver a humdinger of a speech by just going for it. It's called impromptu speaking or, as I remember we used to call it fondly at Toastmasters, Table...
How to present – catchphrases
Take a tip from the pros - grab a catchphrase Play your cards right I've been missing an important component of one of my favourite ever Saturday Night TV doses of sheer, unadulterated, light entertainment. Strictly Come Dancing, as irresistible as it still is, just...
Just Jez – the day before my birthday
Time to celebrate birthdays past As I move through life and all that, it's the day before my birthday, not the Big Day Itself, which holds most poignancy. It's a day to reflect and more importantly, use all that goddamn data to work out how it can help frame the days,...
Just Jez – where I’m at
Here we are now When I was a very young kid, around about 5 years old, I used to watch a lot of telly. And in amongst all the adventures, the laughs, the life stories, cartoons and stuff I'm sure I wasn't allowed to watch, I realised something fairly substantial....