The Difference Between Liberal and Conservative Audiences
Most countries have a political spectrum that divides along conservative v liberal lines. In the US, it’s the Republicans v ...
The Toughest Speaking Gig of All
I usually write about the challenges of professional and executive speaking, but there’s one speaking gig that presents difficulties even ...
When You Have to Deliver the Bad News….
Speakers sometimes have to deliver bad news. It’s not a pleasant prospect for most of us; we prefer to keep ...
A Few Things I’ve Learned About the Speaking Business
It may be presumptuous of me to reflect on nearly 30 years in the speaking business and offer a few ...
It’s the Little Stressors That Will Kill You
Recently I was busy in an airplane-hangar-sized room helping a couple of speakers get ready to speak to an audience of ...
Which Is Better – PowerPoint or a FlipChart?
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m not a fan of PowerPoint (or any other slide software) – ...
The Five Basic Secrets of Great Speechwriting
This is my most popular blog post ever. I'm trying to grab a little vacation this week, so enjoy, and ...
Should a Speaker Tell Stories about her Speaking in her Speeches?
Movies about movies rarely succeed, just as theatre about theatre usually falls flat. Industry insiders love them, and so they ...
The Promises a Speaker Makes
A speaker makes two kinds of promises to an audience – the explicit and the implicit. Explicit promises involve foreshadowing, ...
Storytelling, Framing, and Memory
We expect powerful people to give us the overview, the high-level view. Specifically, a recent study found, we rate people ...
