Tis the season to be wary -- of commencement speeches.  We're almost through the danger period for another year, but ...

I often get asked about short speeches, and off-the-cuff remarks.  How do you do them well?  What are the pitfalls ...

Wrapping up this series of blogs on writing a speech, let's talk about visual aids.  I've ranted about Power Point ...

By now you have written a persuasive speech, with a structure that respects the audience's need to hear your message ...

Your audience is chattering away amongst themselves because you've given them permission to become active, in some step that is ...

You're close to the finish line.  It's time to end with a bang.  The best way to do that is ...

You’ve reached that point in creating your speech where you’ve worked with the audience to understand the problem, and you’ve ...

So you’ve held forth for some fifteen minutes about a problem that the audience has, and you’re ready to move ...

So you’ve captured the audience’s fleeting attention, with a great story, a statistic, or a compelling question. Congratulations; you’ve survived ...

So you want to write a great speech, and you’ve thought about the audience, and the occasion. You understand what ...