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What’s the best startup advice you’ve ever received?
What’s the best startup advice you’ve ever received?
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What self-care practices can you use to reduce public speaking anxiety and maintain self-confidence?
The best tool and resource for becoming a better and more confident public speaker is PRACTICE! The more opportunities that you take — or create — to hone your public speaking chops, the more comfortable you will be. To practice, I signed up for Toastmasters and I would literally practice my real life speeches during our biweekly meetings. If you aren't near a Toastmasters club, consider recording yourself speaking on a video conferencing platform like Zoom so that you can watch, evaluate, and improve your speeches. This has provided me the most comfort and has helped me address stage fright and anxiety around speaking.
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How can you effectively add emotion to your story?
While many people believe that eye contact is the best way to connect to your audience in an engaging way, I believe that using the "power of the pause" is actually more effective. Great speakers are able to use their pace, tone, and pauses to effectively create connections to information for their audience. A well-timed pause can illicit an involuntary (and mostly subtle) "lean in" by your audience members. So next time you're speaking, consider adding in some deliberate pauses to draw in your audience.
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How can you use artificial intelligence to improve your public speaking?
As a creative writer, I often focus my writing process on getting the ideas and thoughts out of my head and on paper — or the screen in most cases. As you could imagine, just this part of the writing process takes a lot of energy! So when it comes to the final phase of editing, spelling, and grammar, I'm thankful to have tools like Grammarly to help me refine my thoughts without having to exert a lot of mental energy. Another benefit is helping with tone. I'm often told how my tone impacts the listener in a negative way. Grammarly has helped me change my tone to sound more friendly, more confident, and more professional.
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How can you use artificial intelligence to improve your public speaking?
One of the most valuable things that I learned during my time with Toastmasters International was the importance of extemporaneous speaking. While great public speakers are often excellent at planned/scheduled speeches, some of the best orators are able to speak intelligently and coherently about a topic, unrehearsed. AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard can give you a random list of topics in a particular field or industry for you to practice that skill and improve your proficiency in extemporaneous speaking.
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Such a great few days hanging out with the NBPA crew in Spain! Thank you for being such a wonderful partner to us! Can’t wait until the next time!
Such a great few days hanging out with the NBPA crew in Spain! Thank you for being such a wonderful partner to us! Can’t wait until the next time!
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Realist Lab is thrilled to welcome Qiana Patterson as our new Investor in Residence! In her role, Qiana will focus on evaluating new models of…
Realist Lab is thrilled to welcome Qiana Patterson as our new Investor in Residence! In her role, Qiana will focus on evaluating new models of…
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Wow! Huge congrats to the Level AI team that just raised $39.4M in Series C funding! 🎉 This powerhouse is revolutionizing contact centers with…
Wow! Huge congrats to the Level AI team that just raised $39.4M in Series C funding! 🎉 This powerhouse is revolutionizing contact centers with…
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Black@ Labs
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Business Communications
MBA 850
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Decision Modeling
MBA 859
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Ethics & Leadership
MBA 881
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Management Information Systems
MBA 861
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Organizational Behavior
MBA 809
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