Confident Speakers Emerge From The Small Business RoundTable Session With Speaking Expert AmondaRose Igoe
The Wellington Chamber of Commerce and The Small Business RoundTable presented another educational and fun session on Thursday, November 21st focused on improving public speaking skills. The event took place at Lake Wellington Professional Centre located at 12230 W. Forest Hill Boulevard in Wellington.
The speaker for the workshop was AmondaRose Igoe who is an award winning Speaking Expert and Best Selling Author. She specializes in coaching and training people to improve their public speaking skills in order for them to attract new clients, create more income and grow their business. She taught quick and easy public speaking techniques that attendees were able to use at the end of the event. The session was titled Public Speaking Secrets Revealed and Igoe did a good job covering seven of her best “secrets.”
Igoe began her presentation by sharing her personal history. She explained why she had become quiet as a child and later turned into an adult who could not speak without giggling nervously. She spoke about a point in her life where she came to the decision to “rise to the occasion” and learn to speak properly and professionally. Igoe said that at that point she realized, “People cannot be successful if they can’t communicate their ideas.” Her personal journey to improve her communicating skills turned into a desire to want to help others. Igoe stated that today her vision is to, in her lifetime, help millions of people and she appears to be doing just that.
The presentation covered seven areas that the attendees could use to immediately improve their public speaking skills. Igoe covered: using notes with bullet points as opposed to “winging it” or reading a speech; opening the presentation with a bang and connecting with the audience; being a problem solver by relating and connecting to the audience; being “real” and sharing one’s own true stories of turning breakdowns into breakthroughs, hardship to triumph, etc; being cognoscente of one’s body language since it is 55% of one’s communication; praising, thanking and repeating during one’s presentation; converting from “head to heart” since most people do business with those they trust. Igoe’s presentation was interactive and very well received.
This was the last session of the 2013 Small Business RoundTable series. Committee members this year included Co-Chairs Blanca Greenstein and Monica Kallas. Committee members included Cindy Beckles, Eric Light, Tina Segal and Nicole Grassi. For more information about the Small Business RoundTable, contact Executive Director Michela Perillo-Green at 561. 792.6525 or write to info@WellingtonChamber.com. Also visit The Wellington Chamber of Commerce online at http://WellingtonChamber.com.