What to Do When an Audience Member Disagrees With You

How to handle an difficult audience member...

How to Present Your Proposal at an Executive Meeting

Selling your way to success... Learn the right way to sell your proposal at an executive meeting. You probably know that the higher up the corporate ladder you go, the more important your communication skills become. And the faster you develop and hone your skills, the faster you'll advance your career.

Pay Attention To Your Appearance!

This article explains why you will be judged as much by your clothes and appearance as by the information in your speech or presentation.

Foreign Translations of Your Talk - How Do You Ensure Your Message is Delivered Properly?

Sometimes a conference organizer will have arranged for your talk to be translated into foreign languages. What do you need to know to ensure your message is delivered properly?

Public Speaking Tips

26 public speaking tips to help you speak with confidence, connection and clarity.

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.

Feedback

I believe that asking for and acting on objective feedback is the best way to improve your speaking skills. Honest, objective feedback helps you identify your strengths and weaknesses, so that you can enhance the former and repair the latter.

How to Promote yourself as a Speaker on the Web

Promoting yourself as a speaker can be made easier if you know many avenues. This article discusses how to use the web to promote your speaking career.

How to Create a Compelling Media Kit

You only get once chance to make a good impression. Get that WOW effect from your prospective clients!

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.

What is YOUR Speaking Expertise?

This article will give you some tips and tricks on how to use your expertise to gain more business through speaking engagements.

The Porch Light* Method to Speaking Confidence

You know the feeling. Looking out at a sea of faces, you notice a few scowls, frowns, even droopy eyelids on some of your audience members. What are they thinking? Do they disagree with your points? ...

Knowing Your Boundaries

While delivering a speech, it is clear that we will be judged and perceived in a certain way based on our ideas, words, and body language. Taking a risk and really thinking out of the box can be quite rewarding and at the same time, it can be a disaster. The famous quote “there is a thin line between genius and insanity” probably stems from this. In order to remain on the genius side it is important to recognize our boundaries.

Speaking One-to-One

Just because you don't stand up to speak, doesn't mean you can wing it. There's a skill to speaking one-to-one.

Take The Fear Out Of Public Speaking

Public speaking can be a terrifying experience, and few have the training and confidence required to overcome the symptoms of fear. The following tips will redirect your tension and nervousness into useful and productive energy the way actors do, so that you turn your fear into the joy of speaking and connecting with an audience.