Public speaking is an important way to boost your credibility, whether you have your own business or you are a sales or corporate professional. Yet honestly, you do more harm than good if you use words that don't exist -- what I call non-words. You'll hear these words and mispronunciations every day as if they are correct. However, as your Mom probably taught you, "just because everybody's doin' it doesn't mean it's right."
Improving your pronunciation is a large task that can't possibly be tackled in a day. If you are really serious about improving, it will take some practice over time. Here are three fun ways you can improve your pronunciation and become a better speaker.
Many myths about public speaking have been passed along from person to person over the years, and the one thing that is consistent about these myths is that the people who pass them along are still nervous about speaking. After facilitating over 200 public speaking classes and never having a single person fail to significantly reduce his/her fear of speaking, I had a dramatic realization. Just about everything I was taught about public speaking while I was in school and from well meaning peers and coworkers – WAS WRONG!
