How Do You Close A Speech?
How should you close a speech? I recently had a query from a fellow coach who specializes in working with ...
The Greatest American Speech Ever?
Speeches, like flowers, are a moment’s monument. They exist most powerfully for a specific audience, a specific speaker, and a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rookie Storytelling Mistakes
I blog often – and the world is in enthusiastic agreement – about the need to tell stories to get ...
Which Is Better — A Humble Speaker or an Arrogant One?
Should a speaker be humble or – its opposite? Let’s call it ‘arrogant’? ‘Conceited’? ‘Egotistical’? Or the more neutral ‘assertive’? ...
The Promises a Speaker Makes
A speaker makes two kinds of promises to an audience – the explicit and the implicit. Explicit promises involve foreshadowing, ...
