Is your opening interesting? If not, get busy or you’ll lose your audience. Churchill said that in order to deliver a good speech, you have to have a strong opening and a dynamic ending and you need to put those… Read More »10 Questions Speakers Need to Answer
If you need advice on how to introduce a speaker look no further than Richard C. Borden’s 1935 classic Public Speaking as Listeners Like It. Here, collected and condensed, are the author’s inimitable insights. 5 Don’ts When You Introduce a Speaker… Read More »How to Introduce a Speaker
Group psychology suggests that two changes occur when individuals are assembled into a group: There is an intensification of the emotions; and there is an inhibition of the intellect. There is also agreement that as the group grows in size,… Read More »Guys Who Speak at Rallies
Politics and Attire A few days ago I went to meet a guy who is running for U.S. Senate. He wanted me to listen to his speech and make suggestions. It was a pretty good speech, 10 minutes long, made… Read More »A Word on Politics and Male Speaker Attire
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
Is it time for a better you and a better way to train executives and high potentials? According to Huthwaite, a leading training company, 30 days after a one or two-day training event, participants lose, on average, 87% of the… Read More »The Secret of Good Corporate Training