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The Best Vocal Exercises to Do Before Your Next Speech - Featured
The Best Vocal Exercises to Do Before Your Next Speech Free Public Speaking Tips

You’re only 5 minutes away from the biggest presentation of your career. Your heart’s racing, your palms are sweaty and your voice sounds as though you just rolled out of bed. Sound familiar? Here’s the thing that most speakers just don’t get: your voice is a muscle. And just as you wouldn’t head out for…

Examples of Bad Habits That Distract Your Audience - Featured
Examples of Bad Habits That Distract Your Audience Free Public Speaking Tips

As a presenter your body language is a key factor in whether or not the audience likes and trusts you. Confident and appropriate posture, movement, and facial expressions help to support the image you are trying to convey—that you are an expert who not only believes in what you are saying, but that what you…

How to Write an Email That Gets Your Boss's Attention
How to Write an Email That Gets Your Boss’s Attention Free Public Speaking Tips, presentation skills

You’ve typed the same sentence over and over, your finger hovers over ‘send’ – but then you pause. Do you sound too pushy with that phrasing? Or is it not professional enough? Do you even need an emoji at the end or does that just come off as unprofessional informal email? Do you really even…

3 Simple Ways to Create Better PowerPoint Presentations
3 Simple Ways to Create Better PowerPoint Presentations Free Public Speaking Tips, Podcasts

If you deliver presentations at the office, you’ll often look for ways to create a good PowerPoint presentation…. But let’s face it: most meetings are pretty boring. They are also repetitive. So, if you are a speaker, and you deliver Microsoft PowerPoint slideshows, they can be a challenge. As the speaker, we want to do…

Identify Why the Audience Would Care About this Topic
A Catchy Presentation Title Is the Start of a Great Presentation Podcasts, presentation skills

Catchy presentation titles are important when you begin to design a great presentation. Your target audience will determine whether your presentation is worthy of their time almost instantly. In most cases, they make that determination based entirely on the title of your presentation. In this session, I’m going to show you a quick and easy…

Presentation Skills Checklist
Presentation Skills Checklist presentation skills

This presentation skills checklist can make designing and delivering a presentation easier and less risky. When folks go through our presentation skills classes, they are often surprised at how simple public speaking really is. That is if you have a great structure and follow a simple checklist. Before pilots take a plane off the ground,…