This list is from a brain-storming session we held at the recent World Champions Edge summit in Calgary.
- No message
- To many messages
- Ignoring your audience
- No pausing
- “Chicken soup” stories (using other common stores and not using your own stories)
- Making yourself the hero
- Stepping on the laugh
- Explaining why, not how
- Not being yourself
- Making assumptions (about your audience)
- Being too serious
- Forcing (irrelevent) humour into your speech
- Repetitive gestures
- Winging your speech
- Not customizing your message to your audience