It’s five minutes before your talk begins. You’ve prepared a great speech, worked out all the issues and practiced it several times. But for some bizarre reason, you still feel a bit nervous. Is something wrong? These feelings are perfectly
Public Speaking Success: Tips for Working with Multiple Presenters
Have you ever done a presentation with other people? In school, these are often known as group presentations but they also happen frequently in adulthood – a handful of people give a talk with each one doing a part of
Public Speaking and Presentation Skills Blog Carnival
The Public Speaking and Presentation Skills Blog Carnival is finally here. If you blog about public speaking, then this is a great opportunity for you to promote your blog to others interested in public speaking. We’re looking for articles in
Public Speaking Success: How to Get Ideas for Speech Topics
The creative mind is our most powerful asset — I just wish it would cooperate more when I’m trying to come up with fresh material for speeches, articles and blog posts. So when my trusty mind is not cooperating, I
Public Speaking: Hostile & Difficult Audiences – Part 1: What Causes a Hostile Audience:
When you speak to groups regularly, you’ll come across a hostile audience every now and then. Now hostile is a bit of an extreme word to describe a non-reactive audience. Sometimes the audience is sleepy, bored, not paying attention or
Public Speaking Success: How to Speak with Clarity
A common obstacle that many people who speak face is being able to speak clearly. This is more of an issue for those who speak infrequently as opposed to those who speak regularly — those in the former category are
Public Speaking Success: Three Ways to Make a Speech More Interesting
No one  wants to deliver a boring speech so it probably comes as no surprise that one of the biggest challenges related to public speaking is to make a speech or presentation more interesting. Each time I teach my “Overcome