How to Deal with Failure
Anyone who speaks, either professionally or for one’s job, experiences a failure of the attempted communication at least occasionally. The ...
5 Ways to Handle a Hostile Audience
What if your audience is hostile? How do you handle it? It’s a sad commentary of the times that this ...
Drew Tarvin’s Humor That Works
I had the great pleasure of interviewing Drew Tarvin recently about his book, his work, and how he ended up ...
Should You Want Your Audience to Like You?
How important is it for audiences to like their speakers? Most speakers won’t admit it, but a big part of ...
Five Ways to Strengthen Your Public Speaking Career
If you’re a speaking pro, you will have noticed that the competition is getting tougher every year. If you speak ...
Is It Good News To Find Out You’re Following A Bad Speaker?
I posted earlier about a terrible speaker experience at a conference I attended recently. It was an American who gave ...
Don’t Do Irony Like This?
I recently posted about irony as the humor of this era, and David Meerman Scott asked, naturally enough, for an ...
Stephen Colbert, Funny Speeches, and the University of Virginia
Tis the season of commencement addresses, and celebrities are in hot demand – especially celebrities with some connection to your ...
Funny speeches: how to use humor in public speaking
Humor can be hazardous to the health of public speakers. Most speakers want to be funny, but you’ve got to ...
The 10 Commandments of Presentations
A few years back I did a version of these. Today, I was inspired to update them. I. Thou ...
