I had a lot of fun leading a custom public speaking class for a team from Blue Marble toys this week. Although the company is based in Oregon, we met in Las Vegas, Nevada. The group gathered from various cities all over the US, though. So, Las Vegas was an
If you improve your storytelling, you can easily improve your stature as a speaker. In our technology-centered world, information moves very quickly. We are constantly bombarded with so much information that out of necessity, we disregard much of what we are exposed to. Psychologists fifty years ago determined that the
We just finished a five-part series about How to Start a Public Speaking Career. If you haven’t had a chance to read (or listen to) that series, it will help you understand the concepts that we talk about here, much more clearly. In this session, we are going to cover
Public speaking can be difficult at the best of times. It’s hard to overcome the nervousness involved with speaking in front of a roomful of people. Of course, you also have to make sure that your voice is clear enough and loud enough that people at the very back can
This technique will help you create an amazing persuasive speech outline. In fact, these sales presentation examples can be used in a number of different ways. “Wait… sales presentation? Oh, I’m not a professional salesperson. This may not work for me.” Whether you are a salesperson or just trying to
This is part five of a five-part series about how to start a public speaking career. In the past episodes, we focused on how to use public speaking within your current career, both as an income stream and as marketing. We also covered a session on how to become a
