Make the discomfort about you, not them

To explain your reaction when witnessing bad behavior, make a personal connection to an insensitive remark. _For example, "I was raised in the Catholic church so that comment is hard for me to hear."

This reduces the risk to make the person engaging in a bad behavior feel nasty or defensive but indicates that you found their behavior wrong.

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What Do We Learn from Our Networks?

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In his lab at Yale, Nicholas A. Christakis investigates the biological origins of our social networks, the web of relationships that we form with family, friends, co-workers, and others. He talked to Yale Insights about how ideas and behaviors spread through networks, and how leaders can shape networks to make their organizations happier and more effective.

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Social networks have a strong effect on our ideas

You may think it was your idea to keep your desk neat or speak up in a meeting, but your behavior was likely influenced by those in your network.

Once we understand social network...

A network is more than just a group of individuals

In addition, a network has ties between people.

The connections between individuals are what changes a group to a network.

We naturally copy others

Your experiences in the world is not only a product of your own desires, actions, and thoughts, but also a product of the desires, actions, and thoughts of people around you.

The things that are seemingly personal to you are actually very strongly influenced by similar traits in other people. You do have agency. You can choose what to do. But you're also affected by what others are doing. Both are true.

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Public Speaking Tips: The Ultimate Guide From Brian Tracy

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I've had a wonderful motivational speaking career that has spanned for over 30 years. There are hundreds of public speaking tips I've learned along the way. I'm going to share as many of them with you as I can.

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Voice as an important tool

Your voice influences the impact of your speech and can make or break its success.
With some guidance, you can learn to use your voice to increase your power and persuasiveness in a...

Improve Your Public Speaking Voice

Slow Down when you speak. Your listeners have an opportunity to absorb and reflect on what you’re saying.
Use Voice Exercises to strengthen your voice.
Record And Listen To Your Voice. Look for ways to improve your pronunciation, your delivery, and your pacing.
Record Phone Conversations. Replay to hear different ways that you could improve your delivery and articulation next time.
Focus On Pauses. The drama and power of a speech are contained in the silences that you create as you move from point to point.
Eat And Drink Well. Energy is essential for good speaking and voice projection. Cold water can chill your vocal chords and decrease the amount of warmth in your voice.

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Tips on Voice Modulation When Doing Public Speaking

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Voice modulation might sound like a complicated skill, but in reality, it is something you do every time you speak. The stress of getting up on stage makes talking much more difficult than it would usually be. Practice speaking and perform vocal exercises to improve your public speaking skills.

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Voice Modulation

You modulate your voice when you change pitch, like when your voice goes up at the end of a question.
Just like with music, its rhythm and tone can convey a meaning that may be diff...

Use Voice Modulation to Improve Your Speaking Voice

If you want your audience to quiet down, to be calm or to perhaps hang on your every word, speak more quietly.
f you want to rile up your audience, speak with a stronger voice. You can also use volume to convey your passion.
Try not to speak too quickly. Most audiences will have trouble following along. Instead, speak at a moderate pace. Slowing down your speech even more will emphasize each word.

Working With Microphones

Microphones just make any speaking mistakes or tics louder and easier for your audience to detect.

Practice speaking with a microphone before your performance and record your speech. This will help you detect words you have pronounced too loudly and times when hard consonants have caused feedback with the sound system.