Four Basic Questions Every Author Should Answer Before Choosing A Niche Market

Is the niche market for your published book easily defined and reachable? Will you be able to make a profit from speaking to this audience? All of these questions and more should be answered before you write your book.

Making Communication Effective: 4 Language Filters

Choosing our messages carefully, and remembering these language filters will make your communications more effective and help you engender trust, build rapport, and creating positive new relationships with your listeners.

Public Speaking Tips: How to Learn to Articulate Clearly

Consonants and vowels are the building blocks of intelligible speech. It's the breath that supports and carries these consonants and vowels to our listeners. If we focus on these three elements of speech-consonants, vowels, breath-we'll have an excellent basis for clear, understandable presentations.

Public Speakers! Relax and Strengthen Your Voice With These Easy Exercises

One of the most discomfiting occurrences when you're speaking in public is to have your voice tighten up and come out as a high-pitched squeak or just give up and go away. It's so off-putting that it makes a person want to jettison the entire business of speaking in public. Perhaps the thought of being a mime becomes very attractive indeed.

Phobia Of Speech

This article is about the fear and phobia of speech. Not everybody is able to talk fluently in all situations and for people who aren't, life can be quite tough. I hope you enjoy reading the article.

Presentation Strengtheners -- Ice Breakers

The first rule of breaking the ice is to involve the audience. Whether we are presenting a keynote or a workshop, the more we can get participation from the members of our audience, the more attention we will receive for the rest of our presentation.

Presentation Content: More Important Than It Has Ever Been

I recently attended a presentation by an excellent professional speaker who told the group (at least 65 attendees) that he had two presentations prepared -- one with stories and illustrations, warm and fuzzy; and the other loaded with information, fast speaking and note taking. He asked the audience to vote on which one they would prefer. It was a unanimous vote for the second choice. How do we, as presenters, consider the present day Quest for Content.

Delivering a Good Speech - Where is Cyrano When You Need Him?

Delivering a speech in business or in social settings is often nerve wracking. For many it is less about the delivery and more about the speech itself.

Credibility: 15 Facets to Speaking Professionalism: #5 - Notes

Notes impact our credibility whether they are present or not. If you don’t use them, and then forget your presentation, you’re done for. If you do use them, you run the risk of using them incorrectly. Depending on the length or content of your talk, notes may simply be a necessary convention, unless you possess a photographic memory. If you are primarily telling stories and are not spitting out hard data, your lack of notes will work in your favor.

Public Speaking Skills

Most of us, at one time or another, were exposed to public speaking through our education. It may have been a college course, or even a high school class. Perhaps the entire semester was comprised of a series of speeches, or perhaps only a single speech was required in a wider communications class.

Public Speaking Fear - How To Overcome It

People, on average, detest the idea of giving a speech. If you have ever been forced to take a course in public speaking at the high school or college level you have probably witnessed what strong forms of speech anxiety can produce. Shakiness, stuttering, visible sweating, hyperventilation and even fainting are possible among those with a great deal of anxiety who are forced to get behind the podium.

Stay Calm, Remain Focused, and Deliver On The Platform

Speaking in front of an audience is an exercise that many people find highly stressful. This article offers the reader simple tips and ideas to help them overcome a fear of public speaking.

Effectively Delivering Your Message

Whether you're preaching a sermon, trying to sell something or wanting to nail down that presentation, delivery is everything. The best way to successfully deliver any message is to keep it fresh, keep it short, keep it simple and keep it fun.

Structure Your Speech for Maximum Impact

To create an impact with your speech or presentation, the audience has to 'get' the message. That means they have to be able to hear it and to understand it. And to do that, first they must listen. So the very first step in this whole process is to gain their attention and then keep it, so that they listen, hear what you say, understand it, and then they can be influenced by it... which is, after all, the essence of impact. There are several strategies to keep attention and the one we’re looking at here is designing the structure of your speech.

Technology Based Presentations -- Notes from the Field

Both as a listener and a presenter, I have discovered that technology presentations have a different set of approaches, requirements and challenges from the speaking venues I have been involved with in the past. In this article I share some of the dos and don'ts I have learned.