Perfect Your Public Speaking: Six Ways to Reduce Your “Crutch Sounds”
By EsqSocial Corporation 19/01/21
We have all used them. It might be a repeated word or phrase like, “I would say,” “it seems to me that,” or “like.” It might be a repeated sound like “uh,” “um,” “ah,” or “er.” Not all of the speech is content; some of it is filler which, for the speaker, serves as a kind of crutch. And here is something scary for the public speaker: You don’t always hear yourself say them. That is because these filler sounds function as “vocalized pauses,” or expressions we utter when thinking of additional...
By: Holland & Hart - Persuasion Strategies