The Basic Building Blocks of a Great Speech – 3
This post is the third in a series of the basic building blocks of a great speech. You’ve researched your ...
The Basic Building Blocks of a Great Speech – 2
This post is the second in a series on the basic building blocks of a great speech. You’ve researched your ...
The Basic Building Blocks of a Great Speech – 1
How do you put together a great presentation? Here I’m presenting a series of 7 blog posts on the basic ...
Less Is More
Less is more. That’s the single most important public speaking rule of thumb. When speakers make mistakes, it’s most often ...
How to Get a Standing Ovation
Be honest. If you’re a speaker, you crave one. Everyone else gets one, why shouldn’t you? And those invitations to ...
How to make sure your 20-minute speech has a long-lasting impact
I’ve been working recently with clients on more and more 20-minute speeches. As I indicated in an earlier blog post, ...
How to prepare a 20-minute TED-like talk
More and more the call is for short speeches. Of course, the popularity of TED and TEDx talks is one ...
How Public Speaking Has Evolved, Part 2
An astute reader of the this blog, David Meerman Scott, pinged me after Tuesday's blog post and said, "Aren't you ...
How Public Speaking Has Evolved
Stage acting in the Victorian period would seem bizarrely and hilariously stylized to us today. The technique was based on ...
A Comparison of Two Inaugurals: Kennedy v Obama
President Kennedy gave 3 State of the Union addresses, and they are almost completely forgotten today. His Inaugural Address, on ...
