Your Everyday Presentations -- How to Add Pizzazz

We spend an inordinate amount of time and effort preparing for a scheduled speech and/or meeting, but we often don’t consider the importance of daily relationship building through presentations. In this article, I discuss the many ways we can add pizzazz to our everyday interactions with others.

Fear of Public Speaking: How To Get Over It

A fear of public speaking is something that many people face and is one that can be very hard to shake. Practice can help you get rid of this fear but what if you’re too scared to even try?

Three Tips to A Terrific Talk

When writing a speech, here are ten tips to making it a positive experience. Communications trainer Katie Schwartz shares secrets of success.

Storytelling Audience Participation Adds Pizzazz

There are many forms of storytelling audience participation from the subtle interaction between teller and listeners to the many out-and-out call and response between teller and audience members. In this article, I address the why, what, how, when, where, and who.

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Public Speaking: Glossary K - O

Keynote: The main speech at a meeting delivered to all attendees in a general session. Originally the main point of a speech. Lavaliere: A corded or cordless microphone worn around the neck or attached to a piece of clothing. See Hands free microphone. Lectern: A stand with a sloping top from which a speaker delivers his or her program. Sometimes incorrectly called a ...

Public Speaking: Glossary A - E

Acronym: A form of abbreviation where the letters of the abbreviation form a new word as in HUD for The Department of Housing and Urban Development. Ad-lib: Unplanned words or phrases spoken during a presentation. Alliteration: The repetition of the same first sound or the same first letter in a group of words or line of...

Public Speaking: Storytelling Tricks

TRICK: Look in different directions to indicate different characters. The audience will associate a stage right or stage left look with the different character...

Public Speaking: Stage Fright Strategies

Stage fright Is Good and Makes You Better Looking Too! Before you learn how to speak in public, it is important to be ready to speak in public. Stage fright is a phenomenon that you must learn to control if you want to be good at public speaking. Actually, stage fright isn't the most...

Public Speaking: Top Ten Ways to Make Money Public Speaking

SELL YOUR KNOWLEDGE This is my overriding principle that came from years of hard knocks trying to get people to hire me to speak. I get more speaking engagements than I ever had before when I quit trying to sell them and began selling my knowledge in as many different formats as possible. The idea is that infinitely more people can buy what you know through books, tapes, CDs, Ebooks and videos than could ever hire you to speak. Your name recognition because of your knowledge distribution makes speaking engagements much easier to come by because the people that could hire you have already heard you and your message on your knowledge based products. In the mean time, the money from the product sales keeps your business thriving.

Public Speaking: Bribes

I don't believe in penny pinching when you get in a pinch...

Public Speaking: Deep Penetration

Many people that know me or have had me do a public speaking engagement for them know that I am a real stickler for pre program research. This research allows you to connect with the audience on much deeper levels than you could have without it. There are many ways to do this research.

Photographic Memory

Would you like the audience to think you have a photographic memory? Would you like them to look at you in awe?

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Public Speaking: Gimme Three Steps

Do you remember that song by Lynyrd Skynyrd? 'Gimme three steps, gimme three steps mister, gimme three steps towards the door.' I try to remember that song when I am moving on stage during a public speaking engagement.