Fighting Nazis with obsolete rifles. Overcoming a childhood deformity to win the Olympics. Battling Alzheimer’s disease. Choose stories they’ll remember. Here’s how.
You may not think you’re a natural, but anyone can learn how to be funny. Just follow these tips.
Trying desperately to liven up a talk for a dull speaker? Try these tips from the co-founder and chief writer of Funnier Speeches.
Pose the problem, offer the solution, call the audience to action—and make sure you back up your presentation in the cloud, and your attire in the car. Stuff happens.
Your address should have a lasting effect on your audience, including prompting them to take action. Here’s a guide for achieving that.
You don’t have to write like Cicero, Lincoln, or Churchill to draft a great speech. Just remember the yellow bathtub ducky—and use emotion.
It’s not good if your audience doesn’t ask any questions after your presentation. If this has ever happened to you, here’s how to ensure it never happens again.
Most anyone who has delivered a presentation has gotten that jaw-dropping, out-of-the-blue query that brings your program to a screeching halt. Here’s how to reset and move forward.
In 17 minutes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words helped change the course of civil rights forever, and they continue to inspire social progress today.
Are there a lot of yawns and sleepy eyes in your audience? Use these tactics to pep up your talk and keep your listeners’ attention.
Going outside yourself and doing a real-time self critique not only adds to your angst, it also severs the connection with your audience. Here’s some advice for your next speaking gig.
Safety lapses can damage your organization in many ways. First and foremost, of course, you don’t want anyone injured on the job. So avoid these pitfalls when urging staff to put safety first.
Could you get up there and just wing it? Maybe, but you’re far more likely to succeed—and look as though you know your stuff—if you are steady and relaxed, not wobbly and tongue-tied.
These free tools go far beyond PowerPoint. Use them to add polls, video, analytics and more to your next presentation.
From a courageous political figure to the CEO of Twitter, these five commencement speakers offered inspiring thoughts to the communicators of tomorrow.
