The Basic Building Blocks of a Great Speech – 3
This post is the third in a series of the basic building blocks of a great speech. You’ve researched your ...
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 ...
Carmen Agra Deedy Reveals the Secret to Great Storytelling
If you want to master great storytelling, you have to learn 3 essential lessons. All of them are contained in ...
Are you too old to be a professional speaker?
Paid public speaking often seems like a great second career idea for people who have achieved something worth talking about ...
What’s the difference between watching a TED speech on your computer and attending an event?
We’re watching a great deal of video on our computers these days, and seeing fewer live human speeches. That’s a ...
5 Ways to Avoid Looking Like an Idiot as a Public Speaker
I let the doctor talk me into a flu shot during my annual physical this week, and I’ve had a ...
Election Sanity Break: Funny TED-Like, Non-TED Talk a Must-See
We succeed because of our weaknesses, not in spite of them. With that counter-intuitive thought, David Rendall takes his audience ...
5 Quick Steps to a Killer TED Speech
I spend a fair amount of time these days as a communication coach helping people prepare for TED speeches. Even ...
Who Are the Best and Worst Communicators of 2011?
Once again, my fellow communication coaches Decker Communications have published a “10 best and worst communicators for 2011,” and the ...
Speakers worth catching – 4: Craig Mod and the Do Lectures
Watch out, TED. There’s a rival for your viewers’ attentions out there: the Do Lectures. The Do Lectures are granola ...
