How to Give an Impromptu Speech
A client and friend asked me the other day about impromptu speeches. His question, basically, was, to give consistently good ...
What Will Corporate Storytelling Look Like in 2015?
I’m not going to make communications predictions this year, because my crystal ball is cloudy, and 2015 in any case ...
The Public Speaker’s To-Do List for 2015
Happy New Year. Is this the year you break out as a speaker, at a level that matches your ambition? ...
What John Lewis Can Teach Speakers About Storytelling and Emotion
Speakers often struggle with how to get the emotion they know they need to move audiences into a speech. Perhaps ...
On Being Brief
Attention spans are shrinking. ADD and ADHD is on the rise – they say. People are overloaded with information. Keynote ...
The Difference Between Liberal and Conservative Audiences
Most countries have a political spectrum that divides along conservative v liberal lines. In the US, it’s the Republicans v ...
Which Is Better – PowerPoint or a FlipChart?
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m not a fan of PowerPoint (or any other slide software) – ...
Rookie Storytelling Mistakes
I blog often – and the world is in enthusiastic agreement – about the need to tell stories to get ...
Should a Speaker Tell Stories about her Speaking in her Speeches?
Movies about movies rarely succeed, just as theatre about theatre usually falls flat. Industry insiders love them, and so they ...
Don’t Let Your Audiences Be Passive!
People don’t like to be passive. They don’t like to sit still and do nothing. They’d even rather shock themselves ...
