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, ...
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 ...
Five Creative, Interesting Alternatives to an Agenda Slide
Imagine you’re settling into your seat in the movie theatre, popcorn and soda at the ready, waiting happily for the ...
The Rule of Threes
I blog a good deal on non-verbal communications because every communication is two conversations, the verbal and the non-verbal. When ...
How to achieve public speaking ‘nirvana’ in 3 steps.
I was inspired by David Meerman Scott’s great post on public speaking (http://tinyurl.com/dndzw7) to write about 3 steps to achieving ...
And the winner of the elevator speech contest is….
Thanks to everyone for the elevator pitch/speech entries. It was a lot of fun to read them and to continue ...
Cut through the jargon: 4 elevator pitches on education.
The educational field, like many others, can fall victim to its own jargon. This is a particular problem for elevator ...
Can elevator pitches be too short? — 3 ways to go wrong.
Today, I’m looking at 3 elevator pitches that run the risk of being too short to have the necessary impact. ...
