Public Speaking Info

Public Speaking Quirks

We all have our little vocal style that makes us unique. How often have you heard someone make a…

Make Them Laugh

In the delightful Broadway musical “Singing in the Rain“, there is a song called “Make em Laugh” which is…

Public Speaking FAQs

Don’t Fear The Pause

If you listen to experienced speakers, it’s easy to see some real differences in how they step through their…

Speak With More Than Your Voice

There is a bit of a misperception about the phrase “public speaking“. The misperception that the technique of becoming…

Public Speaking Tips

How to Write a Speech

You cannot excel at public speaking without a good speech. If you are asked to give a speech or its required for work or school, you know that when you stand up there to give that presentation, you are going to have to have a well organized outline and content to get through it and impress those listening. Sometimes the fear of an upcoming speaking engagement comes from that writers block that happens when you have to…

Put Some Snap Into It

The difference between a public speaking presentation that bores you to tears and one that leaves you with a smile on your face and thinking about that presentation is often not the content but the style of the speaker. You can take the same exact written talk and give it to two speakers and one will turn that script into an exciting live event for his audience and the other will leave that crowd cold. Obviously your…

Its All In The Voice

Maybe one of the most common occurrences that happens in a public speaking situation is to see someone in the audience go to sleep on you. When you are the one going to sleep, you just hope the speaker doesn’t notice. But when you are the speaker, you know that you do notice and you wonder what you are doing wrong. You worked hard on your speech and you thought it was pretty interesting stuff. So why…

Give Them a Bit of You

There is a good reason that public speaking is a superior method of presenting material to a group than just faxing your text over and letting them read it. Yes, part of that reason is that by stepping through the talk, you can make sure they “get it“. But the most important reason has to do not with the subject, not with the presentation style and not even with how good the donuts were before talk. The…