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APRIL 6, 2024
True to her craft, speaker coach Hayley Foster has distilled 12 common mistakes speakers make in her book Don’t Tank Your TED Talk. Here are four, excerpted from the short-talk expert’s book: Hayley Foster Not Starting Strong The best TED and TEDx talks don’t follow a specific formula. They are wildly diverse in topic and aim to break the complicated into manageable bite-sized pieces, in a remarkably short time span.
PCMA Convene
APRIL 6, 2024
Hayley Foster is a designated TEDx speaker coach with a coaching business as the Short Talk Expert. She authored a book, Don’t Tank Your TED Talk! 12 Mistakes Professional Speakers Make. Hayley Foster’s husband, Steve Craft, was a TEDster — someone who followed TED online “in the early days,” Foster said. At first, Foster, a professional speaker herself, didn’t share his enthusiasm for TED talks, which started becoming available online in 2007 — the speakers were primarily men and their topics n
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