How to begin a speech
How do you begin a speech? There are still human beings who wander this earth recommending starting with a joke ...
Six Ways to Put Together a Persuasive Speech:
How do you put together a persuasive speech? The classic way, first noted by the ancient Greeks, is to begin ...
Use the 5 basic stories to add power to your speeches
I’ve written about using the power of the 5 basic stories that Western culture has to make your speeches stronger, ...
How to survive a panel
Panels are a low form of public speaking. It's a lazy, cheap way for a conference planner to fill an ...
Why is most public speaking so awful?
Why is most public speaking so awful? Why do we subject our fellow human beings to this form of torture ...
The greatest 250-word speech ever written.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brough forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and ...
Speech triage — 5 questions to ask yourself to prepare a presentation quickly
Here’s a quick and effective method for preparing a presentation when you're under the gun and can't spend a lot ...
The five top speaking tips from the ancient Greeks
Long before then-candidates Obama and McCain debated each other in the recent campaign, the ancient Greeks held forth on democracy ...
The 5 worst (and widespread) rules about public speaking
We work with clients all the time who have absorbed rules from somewhere about public speaking. Usually those rules are ...
The single most common mistake speakers make
The single most common mistake public speakers make in creating a speech or presentation is to think of it as ...
