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4 Skills Comedians Can Teach You About Public Speaking

Stand-up comedians can offer some great insights into engaging an audience with emotions, body language, and speech structure.

4 Skills Comedians Can Teach You About Public Speaking

As efficiency sales professionals, we are frequently required to give presentations and master the art of public speaking. I’ve written blogs about how to prepare for a winning presentation because it’s both challenging and vital to our success as successful sales professionals. Public speaking takes practice and finesse.

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If you are at all uncomfortable speaking in public or giving presentations (or if you just want to improve your abilities), I highly recommend reading an article in Lifehack on how stand-up comedians captivate an audience, enough to make an entire audience laugh for hours. This article offers some great insights into engaging an audience with emotions, body language and speech structure. Give it a read and apply a few in your next presentation! 

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Mark Jewell

Mark Jewell

Mark Jewell is the President and co-founder of Selling Energy. He is a subject matter expert, coach, speaker and best-selling author focused on overcoming barriers to implementing projects. Mark teaches other professionals and organizations how to turbocharge their sales success.

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