Thank You To Our Partners AutoFlow, Shop Dog Marketing, InBound, and Service Advisor Training

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In our episode today, we close out the 10-part series on public speaking tips inspired by the Toastmasters tradition with Tip number ten: Gain Experience.

The word of the day is:

Nascent:

Nascent means just beginning to exist or develop.

Still in early formation. Not yet fully formed.

Every skilled communicator had a nascent season. This episode is for the people who are in theirs right now.

I frame experience around two key spaces:

1.) Being in the audience,

2.) Being in front of the audience.

….and an underlooked important piece…

the middle space where so much real development happens - being beside and supporting a speaker.

A few stories from my own nascent season illustrate four key concepts:

• The value of borrowed stage time from a mentor
• The middle space model in the wild — and how to cultivate it locally
• How small moments compound into big ones over time
• The road nobody talks about: saying yes to everything, no show too small

For the technically minded or anyone who wants to become a trainer: Being a subject matter expert does not make you an excellent presenter. You still need the reps and the feedback of real people in front of you.

By the time you reach a big room, if you have done the work in the small ones, you will not be new to having an audience. Only the content will be new. That is what all those small steps build toward.

Sincerely,

Craig O'Neill

Thank You To Our Partners AutoFlow, AutoLeap, Shop Dog Marketing, InBound, and Service Advisor Training

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