Uploaded January 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Hi there, everybody. Elizabeth sent over a question to me. If you have a question you'd like me to answer, go ahead, drop down into the comment section on this email or shoot me a private message through Facebook and I'll get it on a future video. Elizabeth's question for today, very good one for everybody, and that is: "What do you recommend for a leader to improve and master public speaking?" It's one of the old cliches that people fear public speaking more than they actually fear death. It is something that is a challenge for many people. Like so many other things, it simply takes practice. Now I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Toastmasters, a great organization, has helped millions of people get better at public speaking. There are chapters in every single city almost around the world. Check it out, toastmasters.com. That's a great place to start. But you can actually just start in your own organization. You start small with your practice. You didn't as a baby just get up and start skipping and running around. You started small, with crawling or rolling around, what have you. Start with a single person. Have a presentation that you've been working on. Bring somebody into your office and present that presentation to them. Maybe you stand up, maybe you sit down at your desk. Then you bring in two people, then maybe three people. Then maybe you do a brand new presentation to those same three people in a meeting room. Maybe you bring in somebody from another department, some strangers shall we say, in your organization. Encourage them to ask you some questions. Move it to an auditorium. It doesn't have to be full. Change the venue up but just slowly but surely work those muscles. Like I say, public speaking is a skill and you get better at it with practice. Similar to working out, you just increase the weights or the number of people, or the complications, as you get better and better. That's a great way to tackle it, Elizabeth. Thanks so much for the question.
Transcript:
Hi there, everybody. Elizabeth sent over a question to me. If you have a question you'd like me to answer, go ahead, drop down into the comment section on this email or shoot me a private message through Facebook and I'll get it on a future video. Elizabeth's question for today, very good one for everybody, and that is: "What do you recommend for a leader to improve and master public speaking?" It's one of the old cliches that people fear public speaking more than they actually fear death. It is something that is a challenge for many people. Like so many other things, it simply takes practice. Now I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Toastmasters, a great organization, has helped millions of people get better at public speaking. There are chapters in every single city almost around the world. Check it out, toastmasters.com. That's a great place to start. But you can actually just start in your own organization. You start small with your practice. You didn't as a baby just get up and start skipping and running around. You started small, with crawling or rolling around, what have you. Start with a single person. Have a presentation that you've been working on. Bring somebody into your office and present that presentation to them. Maybe you stand up, maybe you sit down at your desk. Then you bring in two people, then maybe three people. Then maybe you do a brand new presentation to those same three people in a meeting room. Maybe you bring in somebody from another department, some strangers shall we say, in your organization. Encourage them to ask you some questions. Move it to an auditorium. It doesn't have to be full. Change the venue up but just slowly but surely work those muscles. Like I say, public speaking is a skill and you get better at it with practice. Similar to working out, you just increase the weights or the number of people, or the complications, as you get better and better. That's a great way to tackle it, Elizabeth. Thanks so much for the question.
