November 18th, 2019
“Designing a presentation without an audience in mind is like writing a love letter and addressing it ‘to whom it may concern.” – Ken Haemer “Oh, I have lost my place.” “Sorry, I missed a whole section of my talk.” “Someone must have…
November 11th, 2019
“The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives” – Lilly Walters We have talked a lot about speaking in the last few months. However, one public speaking topic we have not…
November 5th, 2019
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo Is great speaking essential to great leading? Think about it. Can you think of any great leader who…
October 28th, 2019
“You become what you think about” – Earl Nightingale (1921 – 1989) I was listening to a speaker the other day. His main premise was there is no reason to be positive when there is so much wrong with our world today. According to him, you…
October 21st, 2019
“If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour”. – Dianna Daniels Booher Viewing the title of this article, you may be saying to yourself, “Of course, writing well helps us to speak well.” However, have you…
October 14th, 2019
” What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.” – Miuccia Prada Far be it from me to describe myself as a fashion maven. But over the years being in the…
October 9th, 2019
“Hand gestures are really a powerful aspect of communication, from both the speaker’s and the listener’s end,”
– Dr. Carol Kinsey Goman, body language expert and author of The Nonverbal Advantage: Secrets and Science of Body Language at…
September 30th, 2019
“Great speakers find a way of making an early connection with their audience. It can be as simple as walking confidently on stage, looking around, making eye contact with two or three people, and smiling.” – Chris Anderson, TED Talks…