From the course: Delivering an Authentic Elevator Pitch
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Competence in your pitch delivery verbals
From the course: Delivering an Authentic Elevator Pitch
Competence in your pitch delivery verbals
- Demonstrating that you're trustworthy when you first meet someone is critical. Like with warmth, some of the trustworthiness is carried both in verbal and nonverbal signals. Let's take a look on how you can sharpen your verbals or what you say when you're talking about yourself. Be focused. Help your listener package your information in a memorable way. Choose one or two words that describe you and communicate that. I often call myself an academic immigrant since I came to the US for college. Are you the curious techie who loves solving problems or the psychology junkie who enjoys studying human behavior? Be concise. Make your personal background memorable by tightening your verbiage and cutting our the babbling. It's one thing to say I grew up in India in a small town where my parents were school teachers and my uncle owned a TV repair shop, blah, blah, blah, blah versus saying I grew up in India and started…
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