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

16 Jun 2017 · 3 min

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Final episode (52nd) of TJ Walker's first year of "Public Speaking Tips of the Week." Walker urges viewers to create a specific, measurable improvement plan for speaking skills—watch exemplary speakers (TED, archival FDR/JFK footage), aim for larger audiences, start a weekly audio/video podcast—and offers contact routes (email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Vimeo) and follow-up answers on his longer-format show "Speaking with TJ Walker."

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This is the end of year one. This is the 52nd episode of Public Speaking Tips of the Week. I hope you enjoyed it. If you have questions, if you have Suggestions for year two, please email me tjediatrainingworldwide.com youm can also tweet your suggestions jwalker on Twitter. You can reach me in any of our numerous social media outlets, whether it's Facebook, LinkedIn, Vimeo, Facebook Live Video. You can access this that if I don't answer your questions right away, I will typically answer every question in a video for my flagship show, Speaking with TJ Walker, which is a longer format show, typically more than 10 minutes long, where the entire show is devoted to answering your questions. Now for the final tip in our first season, the first year here, I want you to really come up with an improvement plan for your own speaking. Great speakers are never satisfied with where they are. They're always trying to get better. There's always an improvement plan. Maybe it is watching a whole new series of speakers from ted. Maybe it is looking at archival footage of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or John F. Kennedy. Any other admirers you have? Maybe it is aspiring to speak to larger audiences. Maybe it's finally making that jump and saying, you know what? I'm going to do my own audio video podcast weekly. TJ can do it, so can I. And give yourself a date and start it. So have an improvement plan. Always try to be improving. You don't want to plateau. So many public speakers, you see this in politics and in the business world. Someone gets to a certain level of comfort and maybe they can start with a joke, get a laugh, pat somebody on the back. They get to a certain level. They may be at a B or B plus level speaker, but they never get any better. You always want to focus on areas where you want to improve. So that's my final tip for you in year one of this series. Have a specific improvement plan for your own speaking skills. Focus on it. Give yourself quantifiable goals. Measure it and you will improve.