Welcome To The Blog
Check back weekly for our blog post updates! We love sharing tips, tricks, lessons and much more with our followers. Our blog posts are designed to help you overcome public speaking fear!
Welcome To The Blog
Check back weekly for our blog post updates! We love sharing tips, tricks, lessons and much more with our followers. Our blog posts are designed to help you overcome public speaking fear!
Remember Stories from Your Life to Insert into Presentations
This "remember stories from your life" post is part three of a three-part series about how to tell stories in your speech. My audience members will often come up to me after a presentation asking, "How do you remember all your stories?" Actually remembering...
The 5 Steps of Storytelling - How to Tell a Great Story
Great speakers know how to tell a great story. This post will give you the five key steps of storytelling that these great speakers know. This is a continuation of the post about how inserting stories into your presentations reduces public speaking fear. In that post,...
Tell a Story in Your Speech and Reduce Public Speaking Fear
Feel nervous about speaking in public? Tell a story in your speech (early), and you can reduce public speaking fear dramatically. One of the first public speaking secrets that we share in our public speaking training classes is that stories are your friend. When you...
Elevator Speech Template: How to Create a 30 Second Commercial for Yourself
Looking for an elevator speech template? In this post, I'm going to explain how to create a 30 second commercial (elevator pitch) for yourself. (Or for your company.) This elevator speech can be used to introduce yourself to a new contact, help you get an interview,...
Valedictorian Speech: How to Write a Valedictorian Speech
So you did it! You graduated at the top of your class. Now you have to write your Valedictorian Speech. However, since this is the first (and only) time you will ever do it, you may not know exactly how to write a valedictorian speech. You are not alone. Just about...
How to Write a Graduation Speech (Graduation Speech Examples)
Have you been asked to deliver a commencement speech? Or have you worked your butt off to become valedictorian or salutatorian, and now you have to deliver a graduation speech? In this post, we will cover one of the more challenging types of presentation creation: How...
Persuasive Speech: How to Write a Persuasive Speech
Want to learn how to write a persuasive speech? Want to make sure that you persuade your audience without raising resentment? Well, if you use the techniques that you likely learned in school, you will often fail at both of these goals. In high school, you most likely...
Wedding Toast: How to Write a Wedding Toast
Continuing in our series on how to design a presentation, in this episode, we will show you how to write a wedding toast. Over the years, I've had a few people come through our entire presentation training classes just to be able to not be terrified when they give a...
How to Write a Speech in Just a Few Simple Steps
Looking for how to write a speech in a few simple steps? Over the last 20 years, our instructors have dissected thousands of speeches. In that time, we've been able to identify simple things that can easily make or break a presentation. We've assembled a simple,...
How to Overcome Glossophobia (An Irrational Fear of Public Speaking)
Want to know how to overcome glossophobia? Does stage fright sometimes make you pass up opportunities in your career? Do you feel like you have an irrational fear of public speaking? You are not alone! Glossophobia or the fear of public speaking is very common. After...
Short Anecdotes for Speeches and Parables to Amaze Your Audience
Short anecdotes for speeches are a fantastic way to end a presentation with a bang. These stories can be fiction, actual incidents from history, or even just funny stories from your own personal life. When you deliver them well, though, they have a lasting impact. I...
In a Hurry? Here’s How to Memorize Your Speech in Less than 60 Minutes
Looking for a quick and easy way to memorize an entire presentation quickly? Well, the solution to how to memorize a speech in minutes will likely surprise you. In this article, we will cover a few important points. First, we will cover the big mistakes that most...
How to Gain Enthusiastic Cooperation from Your Audience
One of the most important aspects of many speeches is the ability to be persuasive. There is an art to creating a persuasive speech, but there is also a lot of communication skills that are important to the process as well. In this session, we will help you develop...
A Few Simple Ways to Avoid Conflicts when Presenting Your Ideas to Groups
Eventually, if you present often, you will be required to deliver content that the audience either isn't in agreement with or, about which, your audience will be argumentative. It takes a skilled presenter to be able to deliver content like this in a way that doesn't...
Building Trust with a Group Using Good Communication Skills
When you stand up to speak in front of a group, yes, you want to appear confident. However, it is equally important to have the ability to build trust and rapport with your audience. Your audience will not believe you unless they first trust you. In this session, we...