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"No offense." "I got to be honest." Those types of phrases, known as “tee-ups,” can be signs of deceit or uncertainty. If you're a language geek like I am, you’ll enjoy this interview. 
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Most of us have suffered from a brain freeze. So what should you do if you’re caught in an interview, debate, or speech, and you forget what you were saying? Drawing a blank during a debate for an excruciatingly painful 47 seconds. Although that moment became rather infamous (I rated it the worst gaffe of Election 2012), Mr. Perry is far from alone. Arizona governor Jan Brewer suffered a similar fate during a gubernatorial debate in 2010, when she went blank for 13 seconds. It was even worse for Jeanine Pirro, a candidate who briefly ran for Hillary Clinton’s New York Senate seat in 2005 but who quickly withdrew after misplacing a page of her announcement speech and going silent for 32 seconds. The truth is that most of us have suffered a similar—if less high profile—brain freeze. So what should you do if you’re caught in an interview, debate, or speech, and you lose your place?...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Brad Phillips offers valuable advice on how to thaw brain freeze.
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Scoop.it!
I often ask my clients a deceptively simple question: What is your big, shiny object? Until they can answer that clearly, they're not ready to present. If you tell an audience everything, you’ve told them nothing. People can only take in so much information in any given amount of time, and loading them with too many new facts can prevent them from absorbing your most important one. That’s obvious, I know, but many speakers—even some of the smartest, most thoughtful people I know—try to put too much content into their presentations. As a result, the main point they really want to shine through gets obscured by an overabundance of rhetorical clutter. So I often ask my clients a deceptively simple question: What is your big, shiny object?
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Less is more. Superb speaking and interview training advice from Brad Phillips, AKA Mr Media Training.
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Teeing up these phrases can be risky for your interview credibility.