For Above-Average Speakers
We are all above average. At least, the studies show that most of us think we are above average. This ...
Public Speaking: Nature or Nurture?
The long-running debate on how much of our individual variation as humans is due to our genetic heritage and how ...
Why Executives Need to Become Intentional Communicators
For executives with a public-facing role, the game has changed. You can’t rely on common sense or instinct or winging ...
Principles of Public Speaking – VI
I’m continuing a series of public speaking principles in the next few blog posts that are a summation of what I’ve ...
How to Hook Your Audience
A reader of this blog recently sent me Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, by Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover ...
The Three Questions that Predict Public Speaking Failure
As a speaker coach, and nurturer of speaking careers, I hear from people every day asking for help to become ...
The Zen Secret for Successful Public Speaking
Seth Godin’s latest blog post is very wise (as usual!) and reminds me of something I often say to clients: ...
3 Steps for Quick Speech Prep
How to prepare for that big presentation? It’s at once an intellectual, emotional, and kinesthetic activity. It has a lot of ...
How to be a passionate speaker
Many people will tell you that passion is everything in presentations and communications in general. “Just be yourself – be ...
How does a sure-fire, no-miss, grade-A speech go horribly wrong? The anatomy of a terrible speech.
Mena Trott, together with her husband, founded Six Apart, the company that created TypePad, the blogging platform this blog and ...
