Summer Reading #14: Finding Your Voice
If you’re a reader of this blog, you’ll know that the care and feeding of a speaker’s voice is essential ...
Summer Reading #13: Boring to Bravo
Kristin Arnold is a professional facilitator, the author of a new book, Boring to Bravo: Proven Presentation Techniques to Engage, ...
Summer Reading #12: Why is that so funny?
Humor is disarming and it is its own reason for being. That means that if you can make the audience ...
Summer Reading #11: Negotiation and Public Speaking
What is a book about negotiation doing in a blog about public speaking? Simple, really. Every time you get up ...
Summer Reading #10 – Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead
At Public Words we’re keen followers of David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR, World ...
Neuromarketing and Public Speaking – Summer Reading #9
The new science of neuromarketing has a good deal to offer public speakers who want to succeed with their audiences ...
Summer Reading Series #8: How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live
In many ways, the single most important thing a public speaker can do to improve her performance is to stand ...
Summer Reading Series #7 – Why Aikido Matters to Public Speakers
Readers of this blog will know that I’m a big proponent of Improv as a practice that is of enormous ...
Summer Reading Series #6 – The Moving Body
The great French acting teacher and theorist Jacques Lecoq has spent a lifetime investigating the dramatic possibilities of human motion ...
Summer Reading Series, #5: Awareness Through Movement
Moshe Feldenkrais was one of the more original thinkers of the 20th century. An engineer, he studied physics, judo, and ...
