How Obama could eliminate his ums (and so could you)
May 26, 2009
A number of high-profile presentation bloggers and authors have commented recently on Barack Obama’s speaking style – when he doesn’t have his teleprompter in front of him.
In interview settings particularly, and other informal communication situations he has a lot of non-words (ums and ahs) and his eyes cast down more often than not. These are not the hallmark behaviors of a leader. Pausing and looking directly, always, will correct these confidence leaking distractions.
