Posts Tagged ‘talk’

Advice for Students: How to Talk to Professors

A while back, I recommended that students get to know their professors. I realize, though, that many students are intimidated or put off by their professors. This is especially so when students need something — a favor, special help with an assignment, a second chance on a test.

It doesn’t need to be that way. Professors are people, just like everyone else, and if… » Continue

September 14 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: conversation, professors, students, talk | 17 comments»

Be The Guy Who Wears A Name Tag Everywhere

…or girl.

Scott Ginsberg’s story is that one day after an event at college, he decided to keep his name tag on. What he noticed was he was instantly more approachable the rest of the day.

Since then Scott has kept the name tag on [for an odd 2400 days], writing a few books on meeting people and running seminars on the subject.

What’s interesting is the affect this small gesture has… » Continue

May 8 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: Communication, meeting, meetings, networking, talk | 13 comments»

How to Have a Business Conversation

Most of the time, small-talk conversation is required for networking in the corporate world. It requires a lot of practice, but having couple of tips to get started will speed you up with the progress. Ben Stein at Yahoo! Finance did a nice piece on how to have a business conversation:

Begin by knowing that the people you’re talking to mostly want to talk about themselves.
Establish common ground.
Say kind, generous

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April 17 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: business, conversation, talk | 1 comment»

Giving an Academic Talk

Preparation and delivering the talk are both important, but how to do it properly? Jonathan Shewchuk has a good piece of tutorial on how to give a technical talk. He mentions couple of good points - including minmize your text in your slides, what font face should you be using, how you should organise the logical flow for your presentation, how to speak clearly and precisely, how to close your… » Continue

August 8 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: presentation, talk | 1 comment»

How to Lose the ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’ from Your Speech

Tim Warner has another useful piece on eliminate ‘um’ and ‘ah’ from the speech. These placeholder nosies are annoying and my distract your listener’s attention. He suggests to stop them, record yourself in your presentation and study your speech afterward. I must admit sometimes I still cannot lose them as well, so this post is pretty useful for me:

… I am not suggesting, necessarily, that you get into the… » Continue

July 21 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: speech, talk | no comments»

Guide to create conversations

Don’t go to a conference or party and just standing alone and sipping drink. By doing small talk or making some interesting conversation, you will not be bored and alone and be able to network with people. Noah Kagan suggests some preparations and tips to make some interesting conversations. Some of them do pretty common sense - but good to read it and remind yourself:

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Compliments
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July 7 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Communication, talk | no comments»

Conversational Terrorism - How Not to Talk

This is an interesting piece - definitely avoid to use them but use it as a reference to identify if someone use it against you. Dean and Marshall VanDruff talks about cheat conversation techniques. Some of them are really bad ways on introducing a conversational fight, such as:

QUESTION THE QUESTION / COMMENT:
A great lead-in for the technique of WISHFUL THINKING, or a method of delay giving yourself time to think… » Continue

February 20 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Communication, talk | 2 comments»