How Long Do You Have to Prepare a Presentation?
What do you do first if you have 6 weeks to prepare a presentation (or speech), 6 days to prepare ...
How Speakers Need to Forget
Starting this week I'm going to one post a week, for the summer. That way we can all take a ...
When is it OK to swear in public?
Recently, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand swore during a speech at the Personal Democracy Forum at New York University. She said, “If ...
What Martin Luther King, Beethoven, and Paul McCartney have in common.
The Reverend Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech is generally regarded as one of the most important of ...
How to Handle Q and A
How do you handle Q and A? The traditional way is to take the first 45 minutes of an hour ...
The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
I first published this blog a year ago in honor of MLK. So many people have remarked on it that ...
Here’s how to do it: a great speech with no PowerPoint
I’ve been blogging recently about the abuse and misuse of PowerPoint and other slide software. Today I’m sharing an example ...
Go Behind the Dream: How Martin Luther King’s Great Speech Happened
One of the most remarkable books in recent years for students of public speaking is Clarence Jones’ Behind the Dream: ...
What you don’t know about King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
Justly celebrated as one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century, Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have a Dream” ...
Nancy Duarte’s “resonate”
Nancy Duarte’s new book resonate arrived in my mail box a few days ago, and I’ve been racing through it ...
