People like me give out a lot of advice about public speaking – how to create great speeches, how to deliver them, and how to build a professional speaking career. All of that is important, but there also some fundamental speaking lessons that tend not to get spoken out loud. In my effort to kick […]
I’m kicking off 2016 with some basic insights into public speaking: how to be successful, how to dress for a speech, and how to put together a good speaking career. I’m also going to delve into some of the finer points of a great presentation. Following are seven ways to ensure that your public speaking […]
I’ve posted several times about what speakers should wear over the decade I’ve been blogging. It’s time for an update, because there’s some new research on what the science of dress dictates. First of all, new research shows that formal business attire – suits for men, equivalent for women – increases your ability to think […]
The clichéd advice about public speaking that everyone knows is “make eye contact.” But that’s usually where the knowledge ends and the real questions start. How long should you look at your audience? How much is too much eye contact? Who should you look at? What if you can’t see anyone – what should you […]
One of the essentials of creating a sustained public speaking career in 2016 is to have an online community of people who support you and your ideas and are clamoring to hear you speak. That’s where the demand comes from that will lead to bookings. That means you have to create a place online for […]
If stage fright makes your life miserable before, during, and even after a speech, then it’s time to make 2016 the year you banish this demon once and for all. First of all, don’t make the mistake of thinking that you have it worse than everyone else, or that speaker that you admire is lucky […]
OK, so you want to kick off 2016 with that long-deferred dream of becoming a professional speaker, seeing your name in lights, and getting to own the keynote stage at conferences in cool places around the world. How do you get started? What’s the road that will get you there? Following are 5 steps you […]
Once a year about this time I get the inescapable urge to predict the year ahead in public speaking. For the last few years, I haven’t acted on that urge, but this year I’m going to, mostly because the world has become so silly and, well, stupid, that it’s impossible not to comment. So here […]