September 9th, 2019
“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson When I was 7 years old, my parents bought me a used guitar for $15.00. I took lessons and thought I was pretty good at the time. My older brother and I even had a…
September 5th, 2019
“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.” – Dionysius Of Halicarnassus Old Dionysius had it right. So let’s get right to how to make your speech better than silence. So you have your speech topic assigned from your boss,…
August 27th, 2019
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.” – Mark Twain According to the Chapman University Survey of American Fears, the number one fear of people is public speaking. You may or may not have this fear, but chances are…
August 21st, 2019
“Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.” – Joseph Chatfield
Greetings, fellow technical speakers!
There are few other things that can accelerate the progress of your career than you presenting a…
August 10th, 2019
Stephen Covey (“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”) once said, “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” It’s ironic, but using your listening skills actually makes you a better…
August 7th, 2019
For this newsletter, I am going to shift emphasis a bit. I will tell you what were the three biggest “pain points” I had to overcome when I previously prepared and delivered presentations and how I solved them. I invite you to reply back to…
August 4th, 2019
Those were the words of astronaut Jack Swigert aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft on April 13, 1970. Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon . The craft was launched on April…
August 1st, 2019
The legendary coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Paul “Bear” Bryant, winner of six national collegiate football championships, once said, ““It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to…