Public Speaking Myths: The Five Worst Pieces of Advice for Public Speakers and How to Ignore Them

There's a virtual library full of well-meaning advice about how to make sure your next public speaking engagement is a successful one. Unfortunately, a good deal of it is wrong. Here's some pointers on avoiding the common pitfalls in your quest to become a better public speaker.

Ten Tips to Send Your Audience to Sleep

Have you ever fallen asleep when listening to a speech or presentation? Sometimes a little nap during a presentation can boost your energy for the rest of the day. Speakers- if you want to be the one to send your audience to sleep, so they will be fully alert for other people’s presentations follow these ten tips.

The 9 Pillars of Gesture for Public Speaking

To master the art of public speaking, you must have mastered the art of gesture. Here are the 9 pillars of gesture to speed you along your way to becoming a world-class speaker.

How to Grab Your Audience Attention when Public Speaking

You need to grab the attention of your audience right from the start when speaking in public. This article provides some simple strategies to always gain audience attention.

Conquering Public Speaking Anxiety

Making a speech in front, whether the audience number a hundred or just ten, qualifies as one of man’s greatest fears. This is why public speaking is one commodity that is quite rare right now for only a few manage to conquer the anxiety that accompany every speech.

Should You Hire a Booking Agent?

Is it time to hire a booking agent? Ask yourself the readiness questions?

Public Speaking Tips: 10 Easy Ways To Prepare A Powerful Introduction

Ten tips from a professional speaker to make your next introduction powerful, memorable and professional. Includes personals examples and easy to follow suggestions.

Public Speaking: From Trainer to Speaker - A World of Difference

A lot professional speakers come from a background in training, it’s a natural route, but there are more differences than similarities between the two. Professional Speaker Rikki Arundel has made the transition and although both involve speaking to groups, demonstrates that both require us to master entirely different skills.

Speaking in the Language of Awareness

This article provides tips on language awareness for public speakers, so that references to individuals with disabilities are presented in a respectful manner.

Public-Speaking: Tips from the Kid Who Threw Up Before Speech Class in 9th Grade

They say that the two most common phobias are fear of flying and fear of public speaking. I wonder what would happen if you asked a person with both phobias to give a speech on a plane?

10 Sure-Fire Steps to Take the Fear out of Public Speaking

This article reveals 10 simple steps to minimise the fear of Public Speaking. Find out how to make it so much easier and do it a whole lot better.

Public Speaking - How to Make Your Next Speech Count

Along with the opening two minutes of a speech, the final part of a speech, known as a 'closer' is equally important. Research shows most people remember the closing remarks most. Learn tips from professional speaker and MBA Thomas Murrell on how to mkae your next speech memorable and successful.

Ten Speech Tips for Writing Powerful and Persuasive Presentation

Tips from a professional speaker on how to overcome nerves and fears and make your next speech or presentation a success.

Speech Training - Building Your Voice, Tips from a Professional

Tips from international business speaker and former broadcaster Thomas Murrell on how to prepare your voice for presentations and speeches and ways to improve your presenting skills.

Speech Writing Secrets Of President Bill Clinton

I have achieved a long held ambition to hear Bill Clinton - in Perth on Saturday February 23, 2002. It was a fantastic event! My motivation? Anyone who earns $300,000 for a 50 minute keynote presentation must be good. As a professional speaker, I wanted to see Clinton in action. I didn't want to only hear what he said, but how he said it.