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.

Boost Your Confidence, Credibility, and Career

What's the one skill you can acquire that will boost your confidence, credibility and career? It's public speaking. That's not the answer you want to hear, but it's the truth. Don't despair. Overcoming your fear and becoming comfortable in front of an audience is possible.

Speak to Be Heard and Understood

This article explains good speaking techniques and addresses eye contact and use of voice to promote clarity, retention and audience involvment.

What to Do When an Audience Member Disagrees With You

How to handle an difficult audience member...

Let Your Products Sell Your Name: For Public Speakers

Advice on using your products to promote your business.

Etiquette - An Essential Ingredient to Your Success As a Public Speaker

As an invited guest at an event, you should display appropriate etiquette. This article explains what is demanded of you and how you can win over the most demanding clients.

The Top 5 Public Speaking Questions Answered

Most people are not natural speakers. They worry about what if this or that goes wrong. Many questions come up time after time, in this article Paul Daniels and Andrew Lock provide answers to 5 of the most popular questions.

How to Get Started In Public Speaking

Public speaking is among the five most feared activities human beings encounter. The majority of us fear it worse than anything else. Yet, the mastery of public speaking is an important tool in our business skill set.

Shortcuts to Eloquence

This article describes four shortcut techniques which will enable even the novice to appear to be both a polished and experienced public speaker.

A Perfect Meeting: AKA When You Don't Want to Strangle the Speaker

Have you ever worked for weeks or even months, often far beyond normal office hours on a special meeting event only to have it turn into THE PERFECT STORM. Well, maybe your entire crew didn't perish at sea, but there were those clearly identifiable moments when it looked as if the ship was about to capsize. Although many meeting goblins can contribute to such disasters, sometimes the speaker can be one of the contributing causes. How can such terrors be avoided?

How to Become a More Persuasive Speaker: A Systems Approach

This article provides an outline of the Tracy Presentation Skills S3P3 System for planning, practicing and presenting. The objective of the article is to show both the importance of persuasive speaking for career success and an easy-to-learn method to become a persuasive speaker.

Speak in Public! Who Me?

The first time I had to speak in front of a group was in Air Force boot camp. I had always been very shy, naive, and backward. During Air Force boot camp I was so impressed by my training instruct...

Getting on the Speakers List

Who do you know that belongs to an organization that needs speakers? In this article you will find out how to get on the list of speakers for these groups.

Giving Your Audience Great Benefits

Speaking seems to be the way to get the word out for many people and they seem to be in demand. This article will give you some tips on making sure you are the one the audience will want to hear.

Beating Your Fear of Public Speaking

Knocking knees, butterflies (who came up with that word?) in your stomach, sweaty palms, quavering voice. We’ve all been there – some of us more than others. I’m going to share with you some of the t...