gestures Archives - Speakipedia https://speakipedia.com/tag/gestures/ The Presentation & Storytelling Encyclopedia by Dave Bricker Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:50:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://speakipedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-puzzle-globe-60x60.jpg gestures Archives - Speakipedia https://speakipedia.com/tag/gestures/ 32 32 Speakipedia Podcast #33: Lucille Ossai https://speakipedia.com/speakipedia-podcast-33-lucille-ossai/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 05:13:11 +0000 https://speakipedia.com/?page_id=616854 Transcript:  Dave Bricker (00:02) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by speakipedia.com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk, smart strategies, and amazing stories from … More ☛

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]]> Speakipedia Podcast 30: Patricia Fripp https://speakipedia.com/speakipedia-podcast-30-patricia-fripp/ Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:42:53 +0000 https://speakipedia.com/?page_id=616632 Transcript Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by speakepedia.com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk and smart strategies from visionary … More ☛

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]]> Oratorical https://speakipedia.com/oratorical/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:11:03 +0000 https://speakipedia.com/?page_id=613179 Oratory is the art of speaking. And Oratorical relates to the art or practice of public speaking. An oratorical speech is typically formal, persuasive, and designed to impress or inspire the audience. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ … More ☛

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]]> Writing is Design – Writing Dialogue: He Said. She Said. https://speakipedia.com/writing-dialogue/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:12:07 +0000 http://theworldsgreatestbook.com/?p=3322 Dialogue presents challenges for writers. Some prefer to simply declare what was “said.” Many authors feel that “said” is both traditional and invisible: “I’m going to write some dialogue,” said Bill. “I look forward to reading it, ”said Helene. But … More ☛

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]]> Oratory https://speakipedia.com/oratory/ Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:44:16 +0000 https://speakipedia.com/?page_id=9115 Oratory is the art of speaking. And Oratorical relates to the art or practice of public speaking. An oratorical speech is typically formal, persuasive, and designed to impress or inspire the audience. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ … More ☛

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]]> Speakipedia Podcast #2:Kay Allison https://speakipedia.com/speakipedia-podcast-2-kay-allison/ Thu, 09 May 2024 12:01:57 +0000 https://speakipedia.com/?page_id=8204  Transcript Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by Speakipedia.com. I’m your emcee Dave Bricker bringing you straight talk and smart strategies from visionary … More ☛

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]]> Journey Across the Stage https://speakipedia.com/journey-across-the-stage/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:50:15 +0000 https://speakipedia.com/?page_id=7960 When traveling through time, journey across the stage. Primitive men drew on cave walls with a burnt stick. Today, we create with a keyboard and a mouse. What tools will we express ourselves with a hundred years from now? Or … More ☛

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]]> Public Speaking Dynamics: Speak With Your Face https://speakipedia.com/speak-with-your-face/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:45:15 +0000 https://speakipedia.com/?page_id=7757   Speaking involves so much more than your voice. Hand gestures, body language, stage positioning, and facial expressions all play an important role in making a speech engaging. Let’s talk about that last one. Here’s an example. “My sister called … More ☛

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]]> What Should I Do with My Hands When I Speak? https://speakipedia.com/what-should-i-do-with-my-hands-when-i-speak/ Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:31:44 +0000 https://speakipedia.com/?page_id=5589 What should I do with my hands when I speak? The first way to answer this is to consider what you shouldn’t do with your hands. Sometimes nervous energy “bleeds” into our hands and we don’t even know it. We … More ☛

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]]> Choose the Right Microphone https://speakipedia.com/choose-the-right-microphone/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:06:15 +0000 https://speakipedia.com/?page_id=4708 Microphones come in many varieties. Choose the right one based on your needs. Cost and Quality: Microphones can cast tens or tens of thousands. Avoid the cheap-o ones because you’re a speaker. The quality of your audio is even more … More ☛

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]]> What to Do with Your Hands When You Speak https://speakipedia.com/what-to-do-with-your-hands-when-you-speak/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 22:59:27 +0000 https://speakipedia.com/?page_id=4500 What should we do with our hands when we speak? If you’re one of those people who talk with your hands, just be yourself. Some speakers like to bring their hands to rest in a position of offering, with palms … More ☛

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]]> Speaking: Speak With Your Face https://speakipedia.com/speaking-speak-with-your-face/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:42:05 +0000 https://speakipedia.com/?page_id=4087 Speaking involves so much more than your voice. Hand gestures, body language, stage positioning, and facial expressions all play an important role in making a speech engaging. Let’s talk about that last one. Here’s an example: My sister called and … More ☛

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]]> Public Speaking: Words and Gestures https://speakipedia.com/public-speaking-words-and-gestures/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 20:41:12 +0000 https://speakipedia.com/?page_id=3870 The relationships between gestures and spoken words are an important part of effective public speaking. Gestures can come before the spoken words, during the words, or after them. Hand gestures can add emphasis to things you say, as you say … More ☛

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]]> Let Your Audience in on Your Unspoken Thoughts https://speakipedia.com/let-your-audience-in-on-your-unspoken-thoughts/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:06:15 +0000 https://speakipedia.com/?page_id=3658 Sometimes we say one thing when we want to say another. Maybe you need to reject someone but you want to let them down easy. It goes something like this: Oh thank you Beth. That’s such a kind invitation! (hand … More ☛

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]]> In Public Speaking, Being Theatrical is Authentic! https://speakipedia.com/in-public-speaking-being-theatrical-is-authentic/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:55:36 +0000 https://speakipedia.com/?page_id=3648 So many speakers—even professional ones—are afraid to be “theatrical.” They worry that will be inauthentic or phony. A speaker I worked with told a story about a great injustice: A military leader was wrongly court-martialed and forced to retire in … More ☛

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]]> Don’t Eat the Microphone! https://speakipedia.com/dont-eat-the-microphone/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 20:47:32 +0000 https://speakipedia.com/?page_id=3418 Microphones are designed to be placed a certain distance from your mouth. If you eat the microphone—if you put it on your kips like an ice cream cone—it’s likely to pick up breathing sounds and sibilance—the percussive pops, clicks, and … More ☛

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]]> Are Your Messages Missing the Mark? https://speakipedia.com/messages-missing-the-mark/ https://speakipedia.com/messages-missing-the-mark/#comments Tue, 25 May 2021 15:00:18 +0000 https://storysailing.com/?p=974 Are your messages missing the mark? Are your stories clear and accurate or are your meanings lost in translation? The storyteller’s challenge is to convert abstract and intangible ideas, experiences, emotions, and memories into sounds or characters on a page … More ☛

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]]> https://speakipedia.com/messages-missing-the-mark/feed/ 1 Speak Standing Up! https://speakipedia.com/speak-standing-up/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 14:00:12 +0000 https://storysailing.com/?p=2435 I’ve been videoconferencing for years; this will be easy! I thought as I began my first virtual speech. When it was over, I was surprised at my lackluster performance, and by the number of filler words I used—ums, ers, and … More ☛

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]]> Videoconferencing: 11 Tips You Haven’t Seen (But Should) https://speakipedia.com/zoom-videoconferencing-tips/ Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:00:21 +0000 https://storysailing.com/?p=2416 You’ve already read at least a dozen articles about ZOOM and videoconferencing that remind you to mute yourself when you’re not talking and look into the camera. Here are eleven important video tips you haven’t read before but should.   … More ☛

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]]> Public Speaking Tip: Body Language and Spoken Language https://speakipedia.com/body-language/ Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:00:19 +0000 https://storysailing.com/?p=2144 Body language and spoken language: Combine them strategically to enhance audience engagement. In my 2019 Toastmasters Humorous Speech Contest entry, I parodied the “speaker’s journey” from being paralyzed by fear to joining Toastmasters to becoming a confident presenter. (Toastmasters International … More ☛

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]]> Public Speaking Tip: Speechcrafting Goes Beyond Speechwriting https://speakipedia.com/speechcrafting/ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:00:07 +0000 https://storysailing.com/?p=2120 Speechcrafting is a special discipline of which speechwriting is but a single element. The effective speechcrafting professional understands the art of narrative and also the power of stagecraft—timing, pauses, dynamics, gestures. Eloquent words delivered by a lackluster presenter will miss … More ☛

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]]> Storytelling and The Avant Garde https://speakipedia.com/avant-garde/ Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:00:29 +0000 https://storysailing.com/?p=2073 An accomplished jazz musician, educator, and friend pointed out that too many virtuosic young players blow a lot of noisy notes with fire and conviction, ignore the structure of the music, and brand themselves as “avant garde.” To his ears, … More ☛

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]]> Public Speaking Tip: Use Your Full Speaking Range https://speakipedia.com/speaking-range/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:00:04 +0000 https://storysailing.com/?p=2098 Speaking range is as important to a presentation as musical range is to performance. Actors refer to the combination of body and voice as an “instrument.” A piano has an eight-octave range of pitch, and the piano was originally named … More ☛

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