What Are the Public Speaking Skills You Want to Improve? Last month, I asked readers of my newsletter one simple question about their public speaking skills: And the Envelope, Please… The top 3 needs that people who answered this survey identified most often were: Refine My Delivery (to be listened to and heard more clearly) — chosen in 53.4% of Read More
100 Top Public Speaking Tips
Public Speaking Tip 100: For a Successful Presentation, Go for What You Know with Your Audience
NOTE: If you’ve haven’t yet read Public Speaking Tip 98: For a Successful Presentation, Get Your Attitude Together Before You Prepare Your Speech and Public Speaking Tip 99: For a Successful Presentation, Practice Individual Ideas Throughout Your Day, they provide helpful background for this tip. Go for What You Know When You Create and Practice Your Read More
Public Speaking Tip 99: For a Successful Presentation, Practice Individual Ideas Throughout Your Day
NOTE: This post builds on the ideas discussed in Public Speaking Tip 98: For a Successful Presentation, Get Your Attitude Together Before You Prepare Your Speech and concludes with Public Speaking Tip 100: For a Successful Presentation, Go for What You Know with Your Audience. A lot of people don’t practice for big presentations because they “don’t have time.” But practicing doesn’t take Read More
Public Speaking Tip 98: For a Successful Presentation, Get Your Attitude Together Before You Prepare Your Speech
If you’ve explored 100 Top Public Speaking Tips, you know that many of them are not about formal presentations. And while small talk… job interviews… running effective meetings… and writing killer thank you notes are all important aspects of public speaking, the day may come when you deliver a formal, stand-up, “podium” presentation. If and when that happens, you can create Read More
Public Speaking Tip 97: Job Interview? Here Are the TOP 3 WAYS to Ace the Conversation
Congratulations! You’ve Got a Job Interview That’s a major accomplishment, and you deserve to celebrate your success. With many job interviews now happening on video calls, there’s an added layer of technical challenge that you should prepare for in advance. But the basic dynamic of job interviews — one person talking to another — doesn’t change Read More