1) Listening is a key component of communication, with people spending up to 70% of their waking time communicating and nearly 45% of that time spent listening.
2) There is a difference between hearing and listening. Hearing is a physiological process, while listening is a psychological process that involves interpreting and understanding what is heard.
3) Effective listening involves attending behaviors like maintaining eye contact, positive body language, mirroring the other person, and verbal tracking to demonstrate following what they are saying.
Presentation skills are the skills you need in delivering effective and engaging presentations to a variety of audiences. These skills cover a variety of areas such as:
the structure of your presentation,
the design of your slides,
the tone of your voice
and the body language you convey
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Akash is also champion speaker and has won over 40 public speaking championships, including the prestigious titles of: JCI 2012 Hong Kong Champion of Public Speaking, Toastmasters International Division K Impromptu Speaking Champion and has been ranked as one of the Top 10 Speakers in Asia Pacific. This means that you will be learning from a well-known public speaking expert.
More importantly, you will walk away from Akash's coaching as more confident,dynamic and engaging presenters and debater. You will learn proven tools, techniques and processes you can apply immediately to your presentations and debates to become twice as good as when you first came in.
What Qualifies Akash to Teach You Public Speaking/Presentation Skills/Interview Skills?
Here are just a couple of Akash's major qualifications, awards and achievements which make him the right choice for you.
Akash is the:
2012 JCI Hong Kong Champion of Public Speaking. You will be learning from one of the best speakers and trainers in Hong Kong. You will learn the techniques that allowed Akash to go from a boring to a brilliant speaker. Named one of the Top 10 Speakers In Asia Pacific. Akash has been ranked as one of the top 10 speakers in Asia Pacific, which means that you will be coached by someone who can provide you with useful, valuable and proven tools and techniques and really help you improve your presentations, overcome your nervousness and become an engaging, exciting and entertaining speaker.
Presentation skills are the skills you need in delivering effective and engaging presentations to a variety of audiences. These skills cover a variety of areas such as:
the structure of your presentation,
the design of your slides,
the tone of your voice
and the body language you convey
How to Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking - Stage fright to Stage presenceAkash Karia
Fear public speaking? Got stage fright? Download this FREE eBook from CommunicationSkillsTips.com to help you overcome your fear of public speaking.
how to public speak
anxiety and public speaking
public speaking nervousness
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Akash Karia is an award-winning speaker, trainer and presentation skills coach. He has conducted public speaking, debating and presentation skills courses for employees and members of organizations such as HSBC, Polytechnic University, Life Underwriters Association of Hong Kong and many, many more...
Akash is also champion speaker and has won over 40 public speaking championships, including the prestigious titles of: JCI 2012 Hong Kong Champion of Public Speaking, Toastmasters International Division K Impromptu Speaking Champion and has been ranked as one of the Top 10 Speakers in Asia Pacific. This means that you will be learning from a well-known public speaking expert.
More importantly, you will walk away from Akash's coaching as more confident,dynamic and engaging presenters and debater. You will learn proven tools, techniques and processes you can apply immediately to your presentations and debates to become twice as good as when you first came in.
What Qualifies Akash to Teach You Public Speaking/Presentation Skills/Interview Skills?
Here are just a couple of Akash's major qualifications, awards and achievements which make him the right choice for you.
Akash is the:
2012 JCI Hong Kong Champion of Public Speaking. You will be learning from one of the best speakers and trainers in Hong Kong. You will learn the techniques that allowed Akash to go from a boring to a brilliant speaker. Named one of the Top 10 Speakers In Asia Pacific. Akash has been ranked as one of the top 10 speakers in Asia Pacific, which means that you will be coached by someone who can provide you with useful, valuable and proven tools and techniques and really help you improve your presentations, overcome your nervousness and become an engaging, exciting and entertaining speaker.
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2. Our Lives are Spent
Communicating
• Study conducted
across a variety of
occupations
• Up to 70% of waking
time spent
communicating
Everything
else
Communicating
3. How Much Time Do You
Spend?
• Up to 70% of waking
time spent
communicating
• Nearly 45% of
communication time
spent listening
• Conclusion: Listening is
a key component to
every aspect of our
lives
Communicating
All other
communicating
Listening
4. Hearing vs. Listening
Hearing
• A physiological sensory process by which
sensations are received by the ears and
transmitted to the brain
Listening
• A psychological procedure involving interpreting
and understanding the significance of the sensory
process
7. Attending Behaviors have four
components
• Eye contact
• Body language
• Vocal qualities
• Verbal tracking
8. Eye Contact
• Get on the same level as the people you are
speaking with
• Give enough eye contact…but not too much
• Most patients:
– Will be comfortable with more eye contact when you’re
talking
– Less eye contact when they’re talking—but this can vary
• Cultures vary greatly in what is considered
appropriate eye contact
9. Body Language
• Positive body language
• Leaning slightly toward the patient
• Maintaining a relaxed but attentive posture
• Mirroring
11. Vocal Qualities
• Refers to the tone and inflections of your
voice
– Not the content of what you say, but how you
say it
• For example: Pacing
– Moving slightly toward matching the patient’s
vocal qualities
• You can also use your vocal qualities to lead
the patient
12. Verbal Tracking
• Using your words to demonstrate accurate
following
• Includes restating or summarizing
13. Too much of a good thing
• Positive attending behaviors can become
negative or annoying if you use them too
much
• Staring
• Leaning in
• Over tracking
14. Negative Attending Behaviors
• Infrequent eye contact
• Turning away from the patient
• Leaning back from the waist up
• Crossing your legs away from the patient
• Folding your arms
17. Following Skills
• Door openers
– Open-ended questions
– Going up at the end of your sentence
• Minimal encouragers
• Infrequent questions
• Attentive silence
18. Door Openers
• Open ended
questions
• “Going up” on the end
of your sentences
19. Minimal Encourage
• Small words
– Convey that you are listening
– Offers an implied invitation to continue talking
26. Secondary Emotions
• Tertiary Emotion:
Relaxed
• Verbalization: “You
have such a
relaxing voice.”
• Secondary
Emotion: Content
• Primary Emotion:
Peaceful
27. Tertiary Emotions
• Tertiary Emotion:
Embarrassed
• Verbalization: “I
cant’ believe I did
that. What an
embarrassment.”
• Secondary
Emotion: Insecure
• Core Emotion:
Scared
28.
29. Resources
• Bolton, R. (1979). People skills. New York, NY: Simon
• Ivey, A., et al (1997). Basic attending skills. North Amherst,
MA: Microtraining Associates
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http://med.emory.edu/excel/documents/Feeling Wheel.pdf