Vincent Stevenson's Articles


  • Accent Reduction And Elocution Lessons For Chinese Speakers
    This article outlines some techniques and exercises for Chinese speakers looking to improve their vocal communication by elocution lessons and accent reduction.

  • Adding Value To Your Prospective Client Company
    This article sends out a simple message about succeeding in interviews. Your interpersonal skills must be well-honed and your interviewing technique must be razor sharp. Talent and great qualifications are not enough to land the job. You must demonstrate in a short interview process how you can add value to your prospective ...

  • Are Communication Skills At An All Time Low?
    Vince Stevenson discusses a recent TV programme where one of the main characters searching for a 100,000 job gives a poor presentation and effectively destroys his personal credibility.

  • Avoiding Distractions In Public Speaking
    The theme of this keynote article is to recognise the effects that distractions can have on your audience. We all have our verbal foibles, but once we are aware of them, we have the opportunity to either manage or ideally eliminate them. Supreme clarity should be our clear objective.

  • Banishing The Fear On Making A Speech
    This article describes tips and techniques on overcoming nervousness when presenting to a live audience. Never feel those nerves again...

  • Building Upon The Speaking Curriculum
    In this well considered article, Mike Douse puts forward his thesis on the need for further education and development in the speaking curriculum. Although a great deal is being done, some students leave school without basic communication skills which will hold back their development in further education and the world of bus ...

  • Camino Inca To Machu Picchu
    This article links to a comprehensive personal journal of the four day Inca Trail hike to Machu Picchu. It is rich with pictures and personal insights and strikes at the heart of the great adventure. People are people and are therefore, unpredictable in their actions and emotions.

  • Confident Business Presentations
    Some simple suggestions regarding the preparation of a successful speech. Focusing on your audience will help you get your message across. Ignore your audience at your peril.

  • Developing A Quality Speaking Voice
    Vocal development should always be at the heart of anybody's desire for career progression. Your voice is your signature and the path to a confident liaison with your friends, customers and clients.

  • Developing Any Skills You Like
    An excellent article on the issue of learning and how not to 'behave' once you know, or think you know your material. It is easy to lose focus and slip back into bad habits. If you want to know more about how to best utilise your skills, then read on...

  • Fear Of Public Speaking And How To Overcome It
    This short article provides useful tips on overcoming the fear of public speaking. There will be subsequent articles from the same author on this awkward subject...

  • First Impressions - Vital Seconds
    First impressions count - no more so than in training where you encounter an endless stream of impressionable students. How do we do it? What are the secrets to success?

  • How To Create Rapport With Your Audience
    Winning over your audience is a key skill for any speaker, and you do not have long to make that winning impact. Your audience is your major concern. Without an audience, who needs a speaker? This article gives some tips and advice on how to grab them from your opening statement.

  • How To Deliver A Vote Of Thanks
    We are oftem called upon at short notice to deliver a vote of thanks. This can be a little frightening for the uninitiated and there are a few rules and conventions which when known, can ease the fear and even make somebody confident to get it right first time.

  • How To Structure A Speech
    Have you ever wondered why people stop listening to your speech after two minutes? Perhaps they're confused... Where is this speech going? If you did not tell them at the outset you'll have an enormous job to retrieve them. If you need advice on structuring a speech, it's all in here.

  • Interviewing Skills In A Recession
    A recession is the worst time to be jobless. However, with a rock solid interviewing technique that next job is just around the corner. Find out more with the College of Public Speaking.

  • Introducing The Speaker
    How to encourage and maintain the enthusiasm of the audience when introducing a speaker. Speaking tips used by the pros. Create a great rapport with the audience

  • Life Long Learning And Interview Skills
    Interview Coach Vince Stevenson dicusses the role of life long learning in this ever changing world and global economies. Investing in your personal development in your own time and at your own expense is a good strategy to make your CV stand out from the crowd...

  • Musically Speaking
    If music be be the food of love... play on. This article examines the similarities and differences between musical structures and speech structures. At the end, I hope you will have a new understanding and different perception of the two. Happy reading...

  • Pause, Power, Effect
    This article provides a simple exercise to help speakers develop the use of the pause. The pause is one of those tools utilised regularly by superb speakers. To move to the next level, the pause must be used to full advantage...

  • Planning And Preparing Your Interview Success
    Planning and preparation for your next interview has never been more important. The recession has created a buyers' market and you'll only gat that job if you tick all of the boxes...

  • Professional Speaking And Personality
    In this short article, Vince Stevenson explains why it's essential that all effective speakers make the most of their personalities when performing in public...

  • Public Speaking And The Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010
    How to make a major positive difference to your audience and why public speaking should once again become an Olympic activity.

  • Question And Answer Sessions
    Handling Q&A sessions is a key skill to master for all presenters. A great presentation can easily be ruined by the way you interact with your audience. This article gives specific assistance in how to tread through the mine field of question and answer sessions.

  • Session Planning And Training Practice
    When planning a course of study, there are many factors to consider. Primarily, who are you are going teach? What level might they be at in that subject? How long will the course of study last? What resources are available to deliver it? What role do aims and objectives play in this jigsaw of learning and education? Read on ...

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