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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

525: Delivering Presentations with Presence and Confidence with Christine Clapp

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Christine Clapp shares best practices for preparing and delivering engaging presentations.


— YOU'LL LEARN — 

1) The most common mistake in presentation preparation. 

2) The five S’s of confident speakers. 

3) How to eliminate filler words. 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep525 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT CHRISTINE — 

Christine Clapp is the author of Presenting at Work: A Guide to Public Speaking in Professional Contexts and the president of Spoken with Authority, a Washington, D.C.-based presentation skills consultancy that includes a team of six expert coaches. Through training programs and coaching engagements, Christine and her team help professionals at law firms, corporations, associations, and non-profit organizations build the confidence to connect and the capacity to lead.

Christine holds two degrees in communication: a bachelor’s degree from Willamette University, and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. She also taught public speaking to undergraduate and graduate students at The George Washington University for thirteen years.

• Christine’s book: Presenting at Work: A Guide to Public Speaking in Professional Contexts, with Bjørn F. Stillion Southard

• Tool: Speech Outline Tool

• Christine’s website: SpokenWithAuthority.com

• Christine’s Twitter: @christineclapp

• Christine’s LinkedIn: Christine Clapp


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Article: “How the Voice Persuades” by Alex B. Van Zant and Jonah Berger

• Book: Rhetoric by Aristotle

• Book: “Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte

• Book: slide:ology: The ARt and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte

• Book: Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence by Barbara McAfee

• Book: Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds by Carmine Gallo

• Book: TED Talks: The Official Guide to Public Speaking by Chris Anderson

• Organization: Toastmasters International

• Sketch: Shy Ronnie, Saturday Night Live (NSFW)

• Previous episode: 505: How to Make Data Inspire Action with Nancy Duarte

• Previous episode: 307: Persuasive Speaking with Carmine Gallo


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Transcript

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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 McKitis.

0:16.0

Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 525

0:22.1

with Christine Clapp.

0:23.7

Christine has got a boatload of wisdom for how you can have greater confidence,

0:28.1

greater presence as you're engaging in public speaking.

0:31.1

And so you'll learn one, the most common mistake in presentation speaking. So you'll learn one the most common mistake in presentation

0:34.1

preparation to the five ses of confident speakers and three how to

0:38.8

eliminate filler words so if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or

0:42.3

the links to items we've referenced

0:43.7

it's over to awesome at your job.com slash f-525. Now here's Christine's story.

0:48.5

Christine Claf is the author of presenting at work a guide to public speaking in professional contexts and is the president of spoken with authority

0:56.0

a Washington DC-based presentation skills consultancy that includes a team of six expert coaches.

1:01.5

Through training programs and coaching engagements

1:03.6

Christine and her team help professionals at law firms, corporations,

1:06.8

associations and non-profit organizations build the confidence to

1:11.0

connect and the capacity to lead.

1:13.2

Christine holds two degrees in communication, a bachelor's degree from a Willem at

1:16.6

university and a master's degree from the University of Maryland College Park.

1:20.8

She also taught public speaking to undergraduate and graduate students at the George

1:24.8

Washington University for 13 years.

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