2013

Following on from an earlier post about making a speech versus delivering a speech (what’s your style?)… If you want to read and see a really […]

A picture is worth a thousand words, but it needs to pass only three simple tests to ensure it adds value to our presentation. At some […]

If we are looking for moral lessons to include in our speech, there are plenty out there for us to use. “Slow and steady wins the […]

You may know  a ‘so-so’ speaker. I knew one at university. This fellow student was known as ‘so-so’ because whenever he had to give a presentation, […]

Believe it or not, David Beckham wasn’t born with a golden right foot. Tiger Woods didn’t drive a golf ball 300 yards at the age of […]

The first question we should be asking when writing a speech or presentation is: what do the audience want to hear? If what they want to […]

If the opening line of your speech or presentation doesn’t grab the attention of your audience, you may as well walk out of the room there […]

Sometimes we need to speak loudly to be heard. Perhaps it’s the murmurings of a fidgety crowd that we have to overcome, or simply just a […]

The voices inside our head often lie to us. They tell us we are fat when we’re thin, ugly when we’re beautiful or wrong when we […]

It’s Friday, you’re the last speaker on a long day, the room is hot and stuffy and your audience can almost smell the freedom of the […]

Some of us prepare meticulously for every speech and presentation we give. We deliver our speech. Others just know their key points, and improvise around them. […]

When we’re sat alone in a room writing a speech or presentation, it’s sometimes tough to tell if we’re getting our point across. The quickest and […]