If you want to make a fast, huge leap in your credibility as a speaker, the most significant change you can make in your presentation style is to speak slower.
Speaking slower makes you seem more fluent, more knowledgeable, more senior, more interesting plus it allows you to feel in control whilst you’re speaking.
And no, speaking slower doesn’t make you boring, and, no, I don’t care if you speak fast ‘because’ you’re Chinese/Vietnamese/Latin/New Yorker/from the North/the South/your mother’s son, and, no, speaking slower doesn’t make you seem like you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Learning to talk slower is the major thing I work on with every speaker I meet. As far as I can see, until a presenter is able to speak slowly nothing else I can recommend will make the any difference to your listeners.
So… how the hell do you learn to slow down?
Well, apart from getting me to teach you in person, this is how you do it on your own… [click to continue…]
