Question

3. Devise up to three strategies that you can use, as Braithwaite puts it, to "eradicate your crutch phrase." How might these strategies help your language become more powerful?

Answer 1

Three strategies to "eradicate your crutch phrase" are:

1) Record your most recent presentation or speech to become aware of your crutch phrase(s).

2) Work with yourself and others to eradicate your tic.

3) Enforce silence by embracing your pauses.

Step-by-step explanation:

The last strategy is enough preparation before any presentation. Perfect practice, they say, makes perfect. As Lisa Braithwaite, the Speak Schmeak coach, puts it, "eradicate your crutch phrase" in order to resonate as a professional and thrill your audience at every speaking opportunity.

Crutch phrases are those often repeated filler words and expressions that unintentionally enter our speeches to hinder them from being fluent. Most times, because the audience is focused on the speaker, they tend to be distracted by the number of such crutch phrases that are repeated by the speaker in a given presentation.