A Conference (and Meeting) Manifesto – How They Can Be Better
The meetings and conference business has taken hits from the economy and Joe Biden telling everyone he wants his family ...
Questions for speakers to ask meeting planners
Following is a list of questions that speakers should ask meeting planners in getting ready to speak at an event. ...
How to survive a panel
Panels are a low form of public speaking. It's a lazy, cheap way for a conference planner to fill an ...
How to close out a conference with style
Let’s imagine that you’ve been given the assignment of closing out a conference. You’re the final speaker and you want ...
Is an introduction important?
Why do speakers need introductions? They’re often badly done – a hapless VP of Something has a piece of paper ...
The Conference Information Overload Survival Guide
Sitting in the audience as a conference-goer, listening to a speech, or any kind of presentation, means working hard. It’s ...
What’s the difference between speaking and training?
What's the difference between giving a speech and training? I've had reason to think about that question recently as a ...
Event Planners and Speakers Should Get to Know One Another
I've seen it too many times: the delegates file into the hotel ballroom, set up with a stage at one ...
What should we expect of audiences?
Those of us in the public speaking world spend a lot of time advising the speakers, in order to help ...
The Pow-Wow
My partner Nikki and I attended the Second Annual 1-800-CE0-READ Pow-Wow in Chicago this week, and what a fascinatin' gathering ...
