A graduation speech is part entertainment, part inspiration — and the best way to win over any audience is to show your understanding of what entertains and inspires them. So start to prepare your commencement or graduation speech by thinking about your audience. Step One: Know the Graduates You’ll Be Talking To If you’re the valedictorian of your class, Read More
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How to Prepare Great Speeches, Messages, and Pitches: Don’t Just Wing It!
Whether you’re public speaking happens on stage, at a pitch, in a meeting, or at a networking event, success involves preparing, practicing, and presenting. These posts, from 100 Top Public Speaking Tips, will help you PREPARE speeches and messages that you can deliver with confidence because they’re ‘re well-organized, easy to understand, and persuasive. Public Speaking Tip Read More
Public Speaking Tip 36: Use These “3 Tech Questions” to Make Sure People Know What You’re Talking About
Do I Need 3 Tech Questions? Trust me, even if you’re not “a technie,” you need them! Most of my one-on-one speaker coaching clients are smart, ambitious people. No surprise there, because smart, ambitious people are the ones who want to become better public speakers. But sometimes being smart can work against you — and Read More
Public Speaking Tip 28: Use Templates for Public Speaking
I just signed up my novel, The Tattooed Heart, for Amazon’s e-book promotion program. But before I could do that, I had to describe the book. This would have been torture — Sure, I can boil six years of work down to three paragraphs! —if I hadn’t used a template. What are Templates, and Why Do You Care? Read More
Public Speaking Tip 25: Use a Simple Key Message to Make Your Most Important Point
Why Does a Simple Key Message Matter? In Public Speaking Tip 19: Master the Instant Speech (It’s Easy!), you learned about a quick and easy-to-use format that makes any opinion or argument sound more polished. That format, the Instant Speech, begins and ends with a one-sentence statement called your key message. Your key message is an Read More