Why is most public speaking so awful?
Why is most public speaking so awful? Why do we subject our fellow human beings to this form of torture ...
The greatest 250-word speech ever written.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brough forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and ...
Speech triage — 5 questions to ask yourself to prepare a presentation quickly
Here’s a quick and effective method for preparing a presentation when you're under the gun and can't spend a lot ...
The five top speaking tips from the ancient Greeks
Long before then-candidates Obama and McCain debated each other in the recent campaign, the ancient Greeks held forth on democracy ...
The 5 worst (and widespread) rules about public speaking
We work with clients all the time who have absorbed rules from somewhere about public speaking. Usually those rules are ...
The single most common mistake speakers make
The single most common mistake public speakers make in creating a speech or presentation is to think of it as ...
Five Creative, Interesting Alternatives to an Agenda Slide
Imagine you’re settling into your seat in the movie theatre, popcorn and soda at the ready, waiting happily for the ...
The Rule of Threes
I blog a good deal on non-verbal communications because every communication is two conversations, the verbal and the non-verbal. When ...
How to achieve public speaking ‘nirvana’ in 3 steps.
I was inspired by David Meerman Scott’s great post on public speaking (http://tinyurl.com/dndzw7) to write about 3 steps to achieving ...
And the winner of the elevator speech contest is….
Thanks to everyone for the elevator pitch/speech entries. It was a lot of fun to read them and to continue ...
