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?

Presentation Skills Without PowerPoint

Communication skills head the list in the five most important factors in achieving success. Is it any wonder? Every day, in countless ways, we are presenting our ideas or our products-

Fear!

Are your public speaking abilities holding you back? Your ideas deserve the best presentation skills possible. overcoming your fear of public speaking will dramatically improve your ability to convey your message!

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?

Internet Marketing and Public Speaking: Seven Steps to a Successful Murder Board

This article provivides a proven system for practicing a presentation or speech that facilitates anticipating questions from the audience so that answers can be developed beforhand.

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.

Lose Stagefright Over Your Lunch Hour

While teaching a two-day Speaking Confidence program to a group of 25 government secretaries, I wanted to give them practice using their personal experience to help others. So I gave them a simple as...

Lessons in Love for the Shy at Heart

One of the biggest regrets of my life is that I was cursed with the shyness gene. Shyness is an often misunderstood condition that can leave the afflicted alone and miserable. As a victim of shynes...

For Speaking Ease, Forgive Your Younger Self

I love the Disney movie The Kid with Bruce Willis. In it he plays a stressed-out, high-power image consultant. He wears expensive suits, lives in a chic, elegantly furnished home and has all the mone...

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.

Executive Public Speaking for English as a Second Language (ESL)

Simple tips to help anyone with English as a second language speak present more confidently in front of groups.

Be a Guest Speaker and Attract Business

In some cities there are Professional Meeting Planners who often seek speakers. Your participation as a speaker at one event may lead to other contacts in the industry.

Poised for Success: How Developing Self-Awareness Can Improve Your Presentations

There is a well-known saying ‘you never get a second chance to create a first impression’. First impressions are formed quickly and often retained to some degree throughout the relationship, and certainly throughout the duration of a presentation. How an audience responds to what you have to say has a lot to do with how you present it. It is therefore vitally important to ensure that the first impression your audience forms is the one you wish to portray – whether an accurate reflection on your ability or not!

No More Stagefright - Have Fun Speaking!

7 Tips that calm and center you before your presentation:

Getting Results from Your Writing & Speaking

When we communicate, we usually want something to happen. We want results. And, when we’re conscious of results, we’re seeking effective communication. To put it another way, the effectiveness of co...