Why is most public speaking – especially in the business world – so bad?
(This blog is based on the talk I gave at the opening of the Public Words Speaker Forum, June 11-12, ...
William Arruda of Reach Personal Branding
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How to close a speech
How do you close a speech? Think about whom you’re talking to: an audience full of people who are paid ...
How to get a standing ovation
You know you want one – a standing ovation. Speakers don’t like to admit that they’re so needy, but let’s ...
The Top 10 List of Speakers Audience Abuse
Based on actual events. Don’t try these on your audiences. Please feel free to nominate the worst cases of audience ...
Basic Principles of Persuasive Rhetoric – 6
Principle VI: Persuasive communication cuts through the clutter of information overload by dealing with safety issues. Turn Maslow’s hierarchy of ...
Basic Principles of Persuasive Rhetoric – 2
Principle II: Persuasive rhetoric has a clear goal in mind and is usually transparent about it. When you negotiate, you ...
Basic Principles of Persuasive Rhetoric – 1
Persuasive rhetoric is about phrasing your arguments so that your listeners can hear them. I’m going to do a series ...
The Future of Conferences, Part Five – How to Involve the Audience
Conferences ask a lot of passivity from their audiences – audiences made up of people who are normally quite ...
What should a speaker ask an audience to do?
A speaker asks a lot of an audience. Understanding, enthusiasm, support -- and inactivity. Audiences are expected to be passive ...
