Finding Your Voice – Part One
This is the first of two posts on finding your voice as a speaker. When I was at a low ...
How Can You Make a Technical Subject Interesting?
How can academics and specialist in arcane forms of knowledge take their subject matter and present it to general audiences ...
King and Connecting with an Audience
What makes a great speech? Every year around this time in the US we honor Martin Luther King, Jr, for […]
How to Structure a Great Speech
How do you structure a great speech? Here’s a quick way to think about a speech structure that works in many ...
Two New Business Stories for Corporate Communicators
According the most recent Gallup numbers I could find, American businesses rank about equally with Congress in trust, well below the ...
Is Storytelling Important?
How important is storytelling? Is it essential in some way to the human endeavor, or is it simply nice to ...
Real Storytelling – A Few Secrets
Most speakers pay lip service to storytelling, but what they really do is relay pieces of stories, anecdotes, or name-dropping ...
What’s Missing from Virtual Communication (part 2)?
My Grandma, when she was alive, loved to talk about her first trip to Europe as a young ingénue. It ...
What’s Missing in Virtual Communications?
We humans learned to communicate when we dressed in skins, fought with clubs, and talked in grunts. The human community ...
Three quick tips for improving your connection with your audience
I posted the last time on the importance of the voice for an empathetic connection with your audience. Of course, ...
