Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Accountemps survey reveals workers are most afraid of making errors on the job - and public speaking tied for fourth

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On October 24th Accountemps released a survey about Workplace Frights just in time to scare us for Halloween. They a...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Free ebook on public speaking - Stand Up, Speak Out

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Recently I found a freely readable electronic textbook on public speaking that was published last yea...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

Loss of iconicity

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Back when I was a child, talking on the telephone meant picking up a handset that could be humorously represented either ...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Does your speech audience look at you like you’re an alien from outer space?

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Perhaps you are using terminology strange to them. Last week in his Accidental Communicator blog Jim Anderson wrote abou...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Either way you look at it, public speaking really is not our greatest fear.

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 Even when it’s not Halloween, speaking coaches try to scare us by proclaiming that public speaking is the number one (or t...
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Monday, October 22, 2012

In a 2004 study of Greek children, public speaking wasn’t in the Top 13 Fears

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Back at the beginning of February I blogged about surveys of children’s fears. There was another large survey that I did ...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

Over in the United Kingdom today is the last day of Face Your Fears Week

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On October 16th I blogged about it being National Face Your Fears Day in the U.S.. Across the Atlantic today is the last day of Face Your F...