How to Structure a Great Speech
How do you structure a great speech? Here’s a quick way to think about a speech structure that works in many ...
What Speakers Need to Focus on in 2019
In my first post this week, I talked about the aspects of resilience that speakers will need to have to ...
When Good Speeches Go Bad
Consider the standard, garden-variety, nails-in-the-forehead-boring business presentation. A person wanders to the front of the room, nervous as an auditor ...
9 Ways to Interact with an Audience
I often get asked, as a proponent of audience interaction in speeches, how to do exactly that in ways that ...
How to Give a Virtual Introdution
Last week, I updated a post from 2011 that has been perennially popular, on giving an in-person introduction for a ...
If Virtual Communication Is so Important, Why Do I Feel so Bad Using It?
For most people, moving into the digital world to communicate means experiencing significant loss of clarity, ease, and depth. You ...
Two New Business Stories for Corporate Communicators
According the most recent Gallup numbers I could find, American businesses rank about equally with Congress in trust, well below the ...
How to Understand Your Audience
When I’m working with clients, we always start, not with them, but with their audience. Sometimes clients find this a ...
Three Surprising Public Speaking Mistakes
There are some approaches to public speaking that seem, on the face of it, to make sense. But when you ...
Is Storytelling Important?
How important is storytelling? Is it essential in some way to the human endeavor, or is it simply nice to ...
