Michael Gelb: ...that preparation is most of the game
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Nobody Told Me!
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🗓️ 15 December 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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How can you become a great public speaker? Our guest on this episode, Michael Gelb, has thoughts about public speaking that are refreshingly different than what you may have heard before. Michael is an executive coach who’s worked with companies like Nike, Microsoft, Merck and DuPont over the past four decades giving presentations on creativity, innovation and leadership. He’s the author of, "Mastering the Art of Public Speaking: 8 Secrets to Transform Fear and Supercharge Your Career". His website is https://michaelgelb.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Nobody Told Me. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Laura Owens. |
| 0:13.2 | And I'm Jan Black. |
| 0:14.2 | Most of us would love to be great public speakers, right? |
| 0:18.1 | And most of us have read or heard advice about ways in which we can improve our |
| 0:22.4 | public speaking skills. So much of it sounds the same. But our guest on this episode, Michael Gelb, |
| 0:28.0 | has thoughts about public speaking that are very refreshingly different than what you may have heard |
| 0:33.4 | before. Michael is an executive coach who's worked with companies like Nike, Microsoft, Merck, |
| 0:39.3 | and DuPont over the past 40 years, giving presentations on creativity, innovation, and leadership. |
| 0:46.0 | He's written many books, including the international bestseller, How to Think Like Leonardo |
| 0:50.3 | Da Vinci. His latest book is called Mastering the Art of Public Speaking, |
| 0:55.7 | Eight Secrets to Transform Fear and Supercharge Your Career. Michael, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:02.5 | It's wonderful to be with you. Thank you. |
| 1:04.6 | You say that most presentations are boring and ineffective. Why is that? |
| 1:15.8 | Sorry for laughing, but really, they are boring and they're ineffective. |
| 1:21.7 | And the main reason is it's the number one fear of the public. |
| 1:27.1 | The classic book of lists ranks public speaking as the number one fear. |
| 1:33.3 | Death is seventh on the list. |
| 1:37.3 | So in other words, yeah, most people would rather be dead and buried than have to give the speech. But if we put it to them that way, they'd probably be willing to get up to the front of the room. |
| 1:50.9 | Yeah, really. And you say that 74% of Americans suffer from glossophobia, the fear of public speaking, which is just such a huge number. Do most of those people just get |
| 2:02.4 | the typical butterflies, or do they truly feel just paralyzed by fear? And are they amongst |
| 2:07.8 | those people that you say would rather be dead than have to speak? That's a great question, |
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