How to hook your audience in less than a minute? Need some presentation tips for zoom meeting? public speaking techniques to attract the audience? This episode gives you valuable public speaking tips from the world champion Ed Tate himself. Ed provides presentation tips for zoom meeting and tips for meetings on virtual platforms clear the public speaking anxiety. Ed gives virtual public speaking training, presentation tips for students, public speaking training for beginners and more. He also gives some ideas for the toastmasters' international speech contest topics. Ed gives some fantastic tips and public speaking techniques to attract the audience. His personal stories provide public speaking anxiety tips and provide guidance on how to avoid public speaking failures. Ed talks about his new virtual public speaking training which is being very helpful in the current COVID environment where most meetings are taking place online and virtually. Timeline of the interview ---------------------------------------- 00:18 Introduction to the guest 01:24 Why the first one minute is most important in any communication including public speaking 03:55 Sharing his 'why' and how once being a stammer turned into the world champion of public speaking 08:49 Ed giving a crash course on how to win the world championship of public speaking 11:50 how to effectively do story selling 14:14 How to introduce stories in a speech full of facts and data 15:58 Sharing his failure on stage and how it helped in becoming an even better speaker and 20:28 Sharing his affirmation before the speech 21:55 The key skills people struggle with at work and in business 24:20 How and what skills need to be added in academic curriculums 28:40 What skills that you need but ate not taught in schools 30:40 Skills required in virtual environment forced by COVID-19 33:00 Advice to people impacted by COVID-19 and how they can make it through this tough time 34:34 Contacts 35:06 Closing remarks #virtualpresentationtips #masteringstorytelling #publicspeakingmasterclass A most recent book that Ed has co-authored: Speaker's Edge: Secrets and Strategies for Connecting with Any Audience https://amzn.to/37PsN31 Contact details of Ed Tate: Website https://edtate.com/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/EdTateCSP/ Twitter https://twitter.com/etate YouTube    / eddytate   LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/edtatecsp Email ed@edtate.com Contact details of Ajay Mathur Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/majay/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/majaym Twitter https://twitter.com/majaym Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ajkmathur