The Best Kept Leadership Skill

What would happen if you knew and practiced the best kept secret of leadership? You would be able to gain cooperation for your initiatives, build rapport easily, and lead people instead of manage them. You also would be highly valued as an employee and for better, more responsible positions.

Public Speaking - Creating Confidence After You Really Screw Up

If you make a mistake when speaking in public, do you tend to beat yourself up, replay the cursed mistake over and over in your head, and feel crummy for days? Hey, that's not helping you in any way. In this article you will learn how to recover and reconnect with your confidence and skill anytime your speaking experience is less than fabulous.

Public Speaking – Blast Away All Fear and Doubt By Just Being You

When you speak in public, do you give yourself full permission to just be yourself? Or do you feel that you need to be someone who is more articulate, more experienced, more dynamic, more interesting, more funny than you? This article will give you three good reasons why you've just got to be you when speaking in public.

Public Speaking and The Football Player - Focusing on What You Want When You Speak in Public

How is public speaking like playing football? Success depends on your power of focus. In this article, you will learn how to use your power of focus to win the game.

Public Speaking and the Heebie Jeebies - How to Release Your Fear of Speaking in Public

You may think you're scared of speaking in public, but chances are that you're even more scared of feeling your fear. If you hate feeling those rushes of anxiety or nervousness, follow this 3-Step Process to releasing those uncomfortable feelings so you can speak with confidence and ease.

Improve Your Communication Skill with this Quiz

How are others perceiving you? How do you come across? Are they thinking the same things you are thinking? Do they trust you? The greatest test of leadership is to look behind you and see if anyone is following. Read this brief article, take the quiz, and see how you can become a person of substance that anyone will trust and follow.

Drama Tips For Your Public Persona #1 - Spellbound With Godspell

What is the difference from a weak, boring, lame speaker or presentation and one that zings so much you are sorry it ended? The answer is simple, I didn't say easy.

How To Grab And Keep Audience Attention During A Presentation

One of the most important challenges for a presenter is grabbing and keeping the attention of an audience. If the presenter is unable to do this, the presentation might not succeed, no matter how valuable the content might be. This article gives some well-proved and common tips for getting and attention of diverse audiences and for keeping their attention focussed on your presentation.

Wedding Speech Ideas - How To Get Great Ideas For Your Wedding Speech (Part 1)

Every speech writer faces the obvious and inevitable question: What am I going to say in my speech? For anyone aspiring/contemplating to be a successful speech writer, the tips that follow may be give you an idea of where to start and prove useful to you.

How to Be Funny Without Telling Jokes: Eight Humor Tips for Speakers

For sixteen years, I have been showing audiences how to find humor in not-so-funny stuff. Thousands of people have laughed a lot in my presentations yet I don't tell jokes. This article provides eight ways I get people to laugh.

How to Write A Funny Best Man Speech - Learn From Comedians (Part Two)

Every Best Man wants to write and deliver that knock your socks off speech that all the guests remember. To do that it's best to use the techniques employed by the professionals - comedians. In the second article in the series, we look at ways to prepare that speech.

Debate Rhetoric 101 - Englishmen Tactics and Playing Victim

Perhaps you have noticed how easily humans slip into personal attacks when debating. There are many tactics to rhetorical debate and it is amazing how often those who profess to be intellectuals simply cannot handle themselves and engage in behavior untypical of gentleman or statesmen like conduct. Often these folks, even educated Englishmen will go out of their way to call another some dastardly label in order to propel their proclaimed greatness.

Public Speaking - Instructional Books Tapes - DVDs and Big Empty Promises

So you bought some DVDs, tapes and books on public speaking that promised to make you an extraordinary public speaker in a number of easy steps or by sharing a secret with you. You were studious, diligent and faithfully completed every exercise and focused your attention on visualizing, positive self talk and having done all of these things, now you are all but positive that you, personally, are probably the only person in the world who is simply unable to be an effective public speaker. Well, I have news for you, the problem is not you. In fact, it has nothing to do with you.

The Care and Feeding of Audience Volunteers

Using volunteers from your audience can add a new dimension to your speech and really hold the attention of listeners. It also adds an unknown factor to your speech. Here are some tips on how give an effective presentation, using audience volunteers.

How To Master The Art Of Public Speaking

Discover the key points that can quickly help you master the art of public speaking. These key traits, when put into practice, can allow you to master public speaking in the shortest time possible.