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Category: Free Public Speaking Tips

How to Make a Speech More Interesting 7 Presentation Ideas
How to Make a Speech More Interesting: 7 Presentation Ideas Free Public Speaking Tips, Podcasts

Want to make a speech more interesting? Want to elevate your presentation? Maybe you have written a great presentation, but now you want to make it phenomenal. These seven stellar presentation enhancers will help you make any speech more interesting. In this post, Doug Staneart breaks down his public speaking “Impact Ideas” that can be…

The 5 Steps of Storytelling-How to Tell a Great Story in a Presentation
The 5 Steps of Storytelling – How to Tell a Great Presentation Story Free Public Speaking Tips, Podcasts

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. I mentioned a recent class member who told me that he just…

How to Write a Speech in Just a Few Simple Steps
How to Write a Speech in Just a Few Simple Steps Free Public Speaking Tips, Podcasts

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, step-by-step process that explains how to write a speech…

7 Presentation Habits That Make You a More Nervous Speaker
7 Presentation Habits That Make You a More Nervous Speaker Free Public Speaking Tips, Podcasts

Quite often, when we are nervous speaking in front of a group, we have innocent-sounding presentation habits to help us be less nervous. However, many of the things that people do to reduce public speaking fear actually CAUSE PUBLIC SPEAKING FEAR. Below are seven of the biggest things that people do to reduce stage fright…

How Stories and Examples Reduce Public Speaking Fear
How Stories and Examples Reduce Public Speaking Fear Free Public Speaking Tips, presentation skills

Stories and Examples Reduce Public Speaking Fear The fastest and easiest way to eliminate public speaking fear is to insert more examples and stories into your formal presentations or PowerPoint Slideshows. When participants in public speaking classes are first introduced to this technique, many of them will often resist the advice thinking, “My presentations are […]

Group Presentation Guide - How to Present As a Team
Group Presentation Guide: How to Give Presentations As a Team Free Public Speaking Tips, Podcasts

There’s something really special about group presentations. I spent years and years (the better part of a decade, really) studying everything I could about presentation skills and how to deliver powerful speeches. Years later, that studying led me to becoming a presentation coach. I had been coaching speakers for a few years before, but one…