The low hanging fruit of public speaking, and yet no one does it?
I regularly get asked by speakers, meeting planners, speaker bureau folks – just about everyone in the speaking business, in ...
What Are the Chapters in a Change Journey?
At a recent conference, I was asked to talk about change – on short notice. The forcing function turned out ...
What Is a Keynote Speech?
What is a keynote speech? That’s not a trick question. I ask because keynote speeches take so many forms it ...
How Can You Make a Technical Subject Interesting?
How can academics and specialist in arcane forms of knowledge take their subject matter and present it to general audiences ...
Why Is Most Public Speaking So Awful?
A few years back on this blog I asked myself the question, why is so much public speaking – especially ...
King and Connecting with an Audience
What makes a great speech? Every year around this time in the US we honor Martin Luther King, Jr, for […]
The Problem With PowerPoint
One of the unintended consequences of the increased competition of the last few years in the public speaking world is ...
My New Year’s Resolutions for 2019
Happy New Year 2019! If you thought last year was wild, weird and, well, pretty awful, then obviously you were ...
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 ...
History Matters
It’s the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth this year, this summer, last month, and so it seems like a good ...
