Kelsey
By Kelsey
They provide us with powerful technique that great speakers use to hone our public speaking, plus a grab bag of tools we should be able to use in our tour leading jobs.
Today I share one skill that will keep people hanging off of your every word. It’s simple, easy to implement, and it even will help you memorize the key parts of your tour.
KelseyOct 28, 2022
Episode 34 -11 Habits of Likeable Tour Leaders
Today we are going to explore how to be more likeable as a tour leader, guide or experience host and break down the habits of likeable individuals.
Episode 2 – How to be a Powerful Speaker Lessons from Historys Finest Speeches – Tour Leader Tips
I regularly get asked the question How to become a Powerful Speaker? by guides and tour leaders in the Be a Better Guide Community. Therefore, in this episode, we’ve turned to some of our greatest historical orators and a book by James C. Humes for some advice.
Episode 1 – What To Do with your Hands while Speaking Effective Hand Gestures for Tour Guides
An fantastic study done by the Science of People reviewed thousands of hours of the most and least popular TED talks. The least popular speakers on TED used an average of 272 hand gestures over their 18 minute talk, while the most popular TED speakers used an average of 465 hand gestures—that’s almost double!
Episode 8 – Can I make up answers as a tour guide The answer may surprise you – Tour Guide Training
Tour guides have it especially bad because
1) we are claiming to be knowledgable
2) People are paying us to entertain/inform them and
3) It is expected that we field questions constantly during a tour!
Episode 11 – How to Get Your Voice Ready for Tour – Vocal Warm up Exercises
That’s why this week we are focusing on how to get your voice ready for tour and sharing a number of our favourite vocal warm-up exercises.
As a treat for you, we are featuring a special guest: Rocco, an experienced guide from the Netherlands. Not only is Rocco a great guide but he has also been a performer, actor, and dancer ever since he was eight years old. Rocco sent in some video clips of the warm-up exercises he uses before every tour.
Episode 12 – How to use Periscope for Your Business & Using Pericope to Promote your Tour
Can it really be used to promote your tour and drive more sales??
In this video, I answer that question with a resounding yes! I’ll also explain why I think that tour guides are uniquely positioned to kick butt at live streaming and grow their potential customer base. Periscope is about to take the tourism industry by storm and I want you to be ready.
Episode 16 – When Should I give Refunds on my Tour Refund Policy Help
If you as a guide have ever asked yourself, When should I hold my ground on my refund policy?
Episode 23 – Warning Speech Disfluency and how it could be RUINING your tour
Well my friends, today we shed light on speech disfluency and how we as tour guides, tour leaders and tour managers can fall victim to this bad habit.
But never fear! We also talk about four ways to keep those pesky filler words out of your speech. That way people can focus on the amazing things that you are sharing, and won’t be distracted by the way you are saying them.
Episode 24 – How to get people talking and avoid that awkward pause – Tour Guide Training
Let’s face it, no matter which part of the world we work in – all of us guides need to be comfortable talking to people we’ve just met. For many, this is an especially challenging part of the job and one that takes a lot of practice to improve.
Episode 25 – 3 ways you are losing credibility as a Tour leader, before you even open your mouth!
Unfortunately, many tour leaders, even with professional training, lose credibility before they even open their mouths! This week’s QnA focuses on how we can all put our best foot forward and really make a strong impression right from the get go.
Episode 26 – 4 things tour guides should STOP doing in conversations, right now!
Well, I usually bite my nails, I sometimes make people wait for me… and my girlfriend accuses me of being obscenely positive… and that’s just the tippest tip of the iceberg.
Episode 29 – The 3 jobs you need to know if you want to travel the world and get paid!! Tourism Jobs
Does the sound of staying at fine hotels and eating at exquisite restaurants around the world appeal to you? Do you love people and always being on the road? Then you definitely need to tune into today’s video, where we talk about three jobs where you can do exactly that!
Episode 31 – Interpretation Tips for Tour Guides – Interpreting Culture, the Environment, History and Heritage
Well, for starters, we are not talking about interpretation between languages or other types of translation services. Those are a skill unto themselves – but not what we are talking about today.
In this instance, we mean the interpretation of culture, the environment or history as done by an educator, park ranger or tour guide. Or in other words, think of interpretation as simply a communication strategy.
Episode 22 – One technique that great speakers use that most Tour Guides have never heard of
They provide us with powerful technique that great speakers use to hone our public speaking, plus a grab bag of tools we should be able to use in our tour leading jobs.
Today I share one skill that will keep people hanging off of your every word. It’s simple, easy to implement, and it even will help you memorize the key parts of your tour.