So, um, this story is ... ah ... about vocal flotsam, which is, like, the garbage words that some speakers drop in their presentations unknowingly.

You saw them in the previous sentence: "um," "ah," "like."

Last summer, media trainer Brad Phillips shared one easy trick to eliminate these verbal tics.

Recently, presentation coach Thaddaeus Smith shared another simple trick—one that takes just 60 seconds—with PR Daily publisher Mark Ragan. Take a look: