582: Improve Your Public Speaking with Ben Crosby
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Public speaking and communication skills are crucial for every aspect of life. Whether you’re negotiating a promotion at work or advocating for yourself with your doctor, the better you can express yourself, the greater your success. Good communication is a meta skill that pays off in multiples, and it’s something we should all invest more time in developing.
Listen and learn:
- The power of story and narrative during presentations
- How to use visual aids carefully
- The importance of time management
- Why formulaic structures are often a wise choice
- How to handle feedback, trolls, and grandstanders
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ABOUT OUT GUEST
Ben Crosby is a professor of rhetoric and a communication skills consultant. He is also the author of Presentations as Performance: A Professional’s Guide to Better Speaking.
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| 0:00.0 | People say we live in the information age, I often think about it as the communication |
| 0:07.2 | age. Someone who can share their ideas well, express themselves on camera, on a microphone, |
| 0:13.3 | in front of a group, has such a tremendous advantage right now in history. And the block |
| 0:20.1 | that most people have is they assume that public speaking skills are innate. And it is true, |
| 0:24.8 | occasionally someone is born with a silver tongue. But for the most part, those of us who have |
| 0:30.6 | some communication skills have painfully but progressively developed them over a number of years. |
| 0:37.1 | This is something that's learnable and something that applies to everything from advocating for |
| 0:41.2 | yourself with your medical doctor to getting a promotion at work, to communicating with the most |
| 0:45.7 | important people in your lives. And on this week's podcast, you'll meet a professor and a public |
| 0:50.9 | speaking coach and a professor of rhetoric who will help you think about the challenge of |
| 0:56.4 | communicating and hopefully develop your skills. If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show. |
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| 1:40.4 | DM me. I'm at Lucas Rockwood. Welcome, everyone. Lucas here. Today's show is called Improve Your |
| 1:46.8 | Public Speaking. I'm joined here with Ben Crosby. Ben is a professor of rhetoric and communication |
| 1:52.1 | skills consultant. He's the author of presentations as performance and he teaches public speaking |
| 1:58.4 | communication skills at his website, which is triviumu.com. And it's a difficult one to spell. So I'll |
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