248: What Professional Speakers Do…that You Should too with Grant Baldwin
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 11 January 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Professional speaking guru Grant Baldwin shares lessons learned for becoming a better public speaker.
You’ll Learn:
1) The one thing that distinguishes professional speakers from the rest
2) Top things NOT to do when presenting
3) Helpful ways to make a huge upgrade to your presentation skills
About Grant
Grant is a veteran speaker who started his public speaking career as a youth pastor. Since then, he has given thousands of presentations in conferences, assemblies, conventions, and other events. He is the host of The Speaker Lab, a podcast that helps other speakers start, build, and grow their business.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Sponsor: Happen to Your Career’s free 8 day course
- Grant’s Website: FreeSpeakerWorkshop.com
- Grant’s Podcast: The Speaker Lab
- App: Evernote
- App: Slack
- Book: Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You by John Warrillow
- Documentary: Comedian
- Organization: HOBY (Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership)
- Product: Peloton Bike
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McChitis. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 248 with Grant Baldwin. |
| 0:25.6 | I think you'll enjoy this conversation with Grant because one he has a whole lot of fun |
| 0:29.2 | enthusiasm and two he draws his experience |
| 0:32.6 | when it comes to professional speaking |
| 0:34.2 | from his own work as a speaker, |
| 0:36.2 | as well as working with many, many folks |
| 0:38.0 | who have made the transition to professional speaking. |
| 0:40.0 | So that is pretty cool to hear what makes the pros, pros. |
| 0:44.3 | So you'll learn one, the one thing that distinguishes |
| 0:46.4 | professional speakers from the rest. |
| 0:48.4 | Two, top things not to do when presenting. |
| 0:51.7 | And three, helpful ways to make a huge upgrade to your |
| 0:55.0 | presentation skills. So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the |
| 0:58.2 | transcript or the links to items that we've referenced here you can find that on |
| 1:00.9 | over at awesome at your job dot com slash |
| 1:03.2 | f 248 and where at awesome at your job dot com I hope you check out some of our |
| 1:07.1 | nifty stuff one thing I'd point you to right now is the magnifying glass right |
| 1:11.2 | there in the navigation bar on the website. |
| 1:14.4 | So the cool thing about having every episode transcribed is that it is totally |
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