How can a good presenter get better? That’s something many people would like to know. I believe that we stand on the shoulders of people who came before us. So, one of the golden rules of public speaking–at least in… Read More »How Can a Good Presenter Get Better?
Talk about the power of public speaking! With one little speech Oprah is now a possible candidate for the highest office in the land. How did she do it? Well, she first built a room and decorated it so that… Read More »Oprah evokes MLK on her way to the White House
Cherish people who are eccentric. They see things differently. Kurt Vonnegut authored several books that transfixed the reading public from 1959 to the posthumous publication of his last work in 2013, including The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Cat’s Cradle,… Read More »18 Quotes from a Brilliant Eccentric
Most of us are not happy presenters. Consider the complications: the drill of assembling our ideas, putting them in order, finding that, nope, they’re out of order, rearranging them, developing slides, exhausting our eyes as we create clever little graphics,… Read More »The Happy Presenter
I can’t overemphasize the importance of capturing and holding attention. As a public speaker, it’s the first place you can fail to be understood, remembered, and believed. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz-S00ybt14[/embedyt] Holding attention is very important in a presentation. Otherwise people won’t… Read More »Importance of Capturing and Holding Attention
When I ask people to name a memorable speech, they seem to have a brain hiccup. The most common response is to talk about the most recent speech they’ve experienced. If I had to answer the question at this moment… Read More »Quick! Name a Memorable Talk!