Craigstrachan.com – Keep talking!

This list is from a brain-storming session we held at the recent World Champions Edge summit in Calgary. 

1. No message
2. To many messages
3. Ingoring your audience
4. No pausing
5. ?chicken soup? stories (using other common stores and not using your own stories)
6. Making yourself the hero
7. Stepping on the laugh
8. Explaining why, not how
9. Not being yourself
10. Making assumptions (about your audience)
11. Being too serious
12. Forcing (irrelevent) humour into your speech
13. Repetitive gestures
14. Winging your speech
15. Not customizing your message to your audience