TJ WALKER - THE HABIT INFLUENCER - Personal Development | LIVE STREAM

Public speaking tip of the day. When you get to a venue and you're speaking on a stage, get there early and check out the stage, walk around it, figure out are there danger areas you don't want to fall off a stage. That actually happened to me once about 20 years ago. I was speaking, conducting a media interview, a talk radio interview, and I fell off the back of the stage. I went back one foot more than I should have. Don't let that. It's embarrassing. Don't let that happen to you. So my recommendation, get up, walk around. There may be parts of the stage that are really creaky or even soft or don't seem stable. You can avoid that. You want to be able to see what you can see in the audience from different parts of the stage. Ideally, when you are speaking, presenting, you're using as much of the stage as possible, but you're not being obscured by a curtain for one part of the audience when you go to another part. So don't be walking around the stage for the very first time when you're speaking. Get there early, check it out, see if there are any danger spots. Look exactly where the cords are so you're not tripping on any cords. Look for chairs, look for any plants on the ground. You want to know exactly what your environment is all about. I'm TJ Walker. Thanks for joining me. If I can help you be a better speaker, please contact me. We have online courses available anywhere in the world. I have live public workshops every single month in New York City, plus private training workshops conducted anywhere in the world.