The Dirty Secret of Public Speaking – and What to Do About It
One of the dirty secrets of public speaking is that audiences don’t remember much of what you say. I’ve seen ...
Eight Ways to Begin a Speech
The most difficult moments of a speech are those seemingly endless seconds of stage time while you get to your ...
Five Common Rookie Storytelling Mistakes
In honor of this week’s launch of our new online course, Presentation Prep: 10 Steps to Persuasive Storytelling, I’m devoting ...
Authenticity, Artifice, and Presentation Prep
We live in an era when the demand for authenticity trumps a number of qualities that our society (and others) ...
What’s Wrong With Acronyms?
Just because it’s possible to sum up the key takeaways in your presentation in one of those annoying acronyms doesn’t ...
How Much Should You Customize Your Speech?
Chris Brogan recently wrote in a blog post about his struggles with writing a new presentation for every occasion versus ...
What Sepp Blatter Did Right
The FIFA president gave a fascinating resignation speech after 17 years in the job, thanks to the recent indictments on ...
How To Get People To Pay Attention To You
We all know that the industrialized world is awash in information today; many have observed that this information overload puts ...
How To Change The World
When Joseph Campbell (The Hero with a Thousand Faces) introduced the Quest and following your bliss to the world and ...
How to think about storytelling
Back in the day when I was trying (and not succeeding) to make a living as an actor, one of ...
