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How to Improve Kindness Through Speech?

It’s easy to forget sometimes that people look at us and really listen to what we say. We have a great power when we speak. It is an enormous power that can hurt or heal people. What we say can be uplifting or heartbreaking, as well as making another person feel really good or really [...]

Good Persuasive Speech Topics

Have you ever wondered if what you know about persuasive speech topics is accurate? Consider the following paragraphs and compare what you know to the latest info on persuasive speech topics.
A big list of persuasive essay topics for high school and college student’s controversial [...]

Promote Your Leadership Credentials

Are leaders born to lead, or can effective leadership skills be trained? Leadership trainers will tell you that effective leadership skills can be developed through training and coaching. People who are natural leaders may disagree.
During my 30-year career, I have worked for born leaders and those who have obviously developed their leadership skills [...]

Lectern Etiquette

First, the square wooden object placed at the center of the room is properly called a lectern, not a podium. The word podium comes from the word podiatry which means: the care of the human foot, the diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders. Therefore, a podium is a stage you stand on not what you [...]

Presentation Skills – How Failing To Focus Leads To A Failed Presentation

No matter how much effort and time you spend on preparing a presenation, if you fail to focus on the needs of your audience, your presentation will not achieve anything and the audience will leave your talk dissatisfied. If the audience do nothing differently as a result of listening to you, why bother to [...]

A Quicker Route To Promotion

If you are ambitious and currently putting in long hours, working feverishly at your computer, in the persuit of your next promotion, you have chosen the most difficult route to realising your ambitions. It is easy to assume that if we demonstrate commitment to our employer by being the first in (and last to [...]

Four Common Presentation Mistakes To Avoid

Over the last 20 years, I have trained thousands of people in presentation skills. I always require trainees to deliver a short presentation before I start training them, so that I can evaluate their starting position. I can now share with you the most common mistakes presenters make prior to training and more [...]

3 Keys To Speak With Confidence In Public Speaking

Most people feel public speaking anxiety when they are to address an audience of any size. Not many people can naturally speak with confidence in front of a group. This is because most people want to do their best.
Most of today’s confident public speakers suffered nerves when starting out and still do. But they now [...]

The Top Five (5) Biggest Myths about Public Speaking Fear and Stage Fright

It’s time to set the record straight. ANYONE can be a fantastic, world-class speaker with a little bit of training, a little bit of coaching, and a little bit of practice. It doesn’t take years of study and practice, and it doesn’t take thousands of dollars of investment. One of the hardest things to get [...]

How To Be An Effective Impromptu Speaker

In a meeting at work or a civic meeting or other event you may be asked to deliver some remarks on a particulr topic under discussion. Speaking in public can be difficult when prepared but effective impromptu speaking is even more difficult for most people
Unfortunately, not many people are natural impromptu speakers. Many that appear [...]