What To Do Before A Speech
If you’re a long-time reader of this blog, you know that I’m primarily a coach and secondarily a speaker. Lately, ...
Sharing the stage – tips for presenting with other people
It’s surprising how often people present in pairs on stage, or set up panels, or group shows of one kind ...
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 ...
What Speakers Need to Focus on in 2019
In my first post this week, I talked about the aspects of resilience that speakers will need to have to ...
The Seven Daily Habits of a Successful Speaker
It's almost fall, and fall is a great time to learn something new, or change up your routine, or establish ...
The Five Rules of Successful Public Speaking No One Tells You
There’s lots of advice out there about how to create, deliver, and get paid for great public speaking. But, as ...
How to Become an Intentional Communicator
When I work on high-stakes communications, with professional speakers, or top-level executives, I coach them to do the hard work ...
How to Handle Q and A, Part 1
Why go to all the trouble of preparing a speech when you can just take questions? I’ve been asked that ...
What About Second Impressions?
I posted last time about first impressions and the unconscious biases we all have. And how it’s therefore important to ...
The Seven Worst Things That Speakers Do to Sabotage Themselves and Their Careers
There’s something about the approach of fall that always makes me think about renewal. Maybe it’s because I was tied ...
