The Dirty Secret of Public Speaking – and What to Do About It
One of the dirty secrets of public speaking is that audiences don’t remember much of what you say. I’ve seen ...
Eight Ways to Begin a Speech
The most difficult moments of a speech are those seemingly endless seconds of stage time while you get to your ...
What We Can Learn from President Obama’s Eulogy for Reverend Pinckney
The public speaking world has been abuzz for the past week about a standout speech delivered by President Obama in ...
Five Common Rookie Storytelling Mistakes
In honor of this week’s launch of our new online course, Presentation Prep: 10 Steps to Persuasive Storytelling, I’m devoting ...
Authenticity, Artifice, and Presentation Prep
We live in an era when the demand for authenticity trumps a number of qualities that our society (and others) ...
What’s Wrong With Acronyms?
Just because it’s possible to sum up the key takeaways in your presentation in one of those annoying acronyms doesn’t ...
How Much Should You Customize Your Speech?
Chris Brogan recently wrote in a blog post about his struggles with writing a new presentation for every occasion versus ...
How To Get People To Pay Attention To You
We all know that the industrialized world is awash in information today; many have observed that this information overload puts ...
The Journey to Mastery
I was originally going to call my book Power Cues: The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing ...
How To Change The World
When Joseph Campbell (The Hero with a Thousand Faces) introduced the Quest and following your bliss to the world and ...
