10 steps you can take right now to improve your presentations
Improving your presentation skills can be hard work. Changing behavior takes time. But there are some easy things you can ...
Bad Rules Never Seem to Die: the 5 Worst Ideas in Public Speaking
I first published this blog post 3 years ago, and I’m sorry to say I still see people following these ...
What is the role of emotion in public speaking?
What is the role of emotion in public speaking? We have all seen speeches that seared their audiences with emotion ...
Seven ways to rehearse a speech
Rehearsal is a practice more honored in the breach than the occurrence, and it should be the other way around. ...
Do You Have a Speaking Tic?
Some people say “like” and “you know,” so often that you want to strangle them. Others say “um” often and ...
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 ...
Presenters: Do You Walk on Stage or Take the Stage?
Good actors come on stage, deliver their lines, and leave. Great actors take the stage. Great speakers need to do ...
Body language: how to master non-verbal communication
If you’re like most people, you think about body language as follows. I’m pretty much in charge of my body. ...
What gets in the way of presence?
We all know we need that mysterious quality 'presence' when we’re in front of an audience. It’s something about charisma, ...
People I’m Grateful for #8: Nancy Duarte
This blog is the eighth in a series of blogs on people that have added something important to the world ...
