How to Use a Whiteboard in Public Speaking

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DON VARNEY: Hi, I'm Don Varney, founder of Varney Speaks, and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. You know when you get into a corporate training environment, there are certain things that you have to be able to use and use effectively. One of them would be the whiteboard. A whiteboard is a great tool and so many people forget about how powerful it can be. Let's talk about a few things that I really feel are important when speaking with an audience with the whiteboard. The one thing you want to do is remember that they should not read everything as you're speaking to them. When you're utilizing a whiteboard, there's a few things that you don't want to do and there's a lot of things that you do. The first thing you don't want to do is what I'm doing right now and that's turning your back to your audience and looking at the whiteboard and talking as you're writing. That to me is a very difficult thing to do because they're looking more at what you're doing instead of what you're saying. So the key here is when you have to write on the board, what you want to do is you want to step to the board, keep your point--speaking as you're talking, keep looking at your audience and then when you get ready to write, stroll, and write a point and when you write the point down, come back to your audience and begin speaking to your audience again.

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