MBA1200 Q&A Wednesday: How do I improve my public speaking skills?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In business, public speaking is a must, even if it’s only occasionally. Communication is everything. It’s Q&A Wednesday, and one listener is ready to make a conscious effort to become a better public speaker. As it turns out, our host Omar wasn’t always the comfortable, confident maestro of the mic he is today. In fact, as a young educator, Omar realized quickly that he needed help talking to a crowd.

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0:00.0	Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA Show, the business podcast,
0:13.3	and got your back every single day with our daily 10 minute
0:16.2	business lessons for the real world.
0:18.6	I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar, and home.
0:21.9	I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training, and community
0:26.2	online.
0:27.2	And today's episode is a Q&A Wednesday episode.
0:29.8	On our Q&A Wednesday episodes, I answer a question from one of you, one of our listeners.
0:34.2	If you have a question you want to ask just email me over at omar at one zero
0:38.4	mb a dot net.
0:40.5	today's question is from Ricardo and And Ricardo asks, how do I improve my public speaking skills?
0:47.0	Ricardo writes in and says, hi Omar, I love the way you talk and communicate your ideas or opinions.
0:52.0	I'm a beginner, so I'm looking for ways to improve my oral communication skills.
0:56.1	What techniques do you use?
0:57.7	What courses or books do you recommend?
1:00.1	How do you prepare to talk in public? What's your secret sauce? Great job and thanks in advance Ricardo. Well, thanks Ricardo for writing in and submitting your question for Q&A Wednesday. I'll be answering it in today's episode.
1:13.7	I want to begin by saying that my communication skills, my public speaking skills, these are things
1:19.2	I've been working on for a very long time.
1:22.2	I start to seriously work on my communication skills at the age of
1:26.1	22. That's about 17 years ago and I started to work on these skills because I was a teacher and I was really, really frightened to speak in public
1:35.2	and I had to speak in public five times a day every day of the week.
1:38.8	I had to get over it.
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