Is “Your Story” Helping or Hurting Your Presentation?
(This article also appeared in the Huffington Post, Dec. 5 2014) “Designing a presentation without an audience in mind is like writing a love letter and addressing it “to whom it may [...]
In Engaging the audience, Presentation skills, Public speaking & presentations, Public speaking tips
Posted Three Things That You NEVER Want to Say to Your Audience
Giving a presentation is a huge responsibility. When you’re in that power position in front of an audience, you’ve got to make sure that you’re leaving them informed, intrigued, [...]
In Body language, Coaching for speakers, Engaging the audience, Presentation skills, Public speaking & presentations, Public speaking tips
Posted 3 Top Offenders That Take Away From Your Delivery Power and Distract Your Audience
We’ve all seen the robotic speakers who may have great content but we can’t get past their nervous body language or frozen delivery style. As a speaker, how we say what we say is [...]
In Engaging the audience, Persuasive speaking, Presentation skills, Public speaking & presentations, Public speaking questions, Public speaking resources, Public speaking tips, Storytelling
Posted Audio replay of my FREE teleseminar – How to Create A Signature Speech That Sells
I was so blown away by the amazing response from this week’s free call on How To Create A Signature Speech That Sells! If you missed it, grab the recording here: http://bit.ly/1l7QiWf. [...]
In Coaching for speakers, Persuasive speaking, Public speaking & presentations, Public speaking tips, Speech video analyses, Storytelling, TED
Posted How to make your speech delivery outstanding… with thanks to Sheryl Sandberg’s TED Talk
Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business by Fortune and as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the [...]
In Coaching for speakers, Public speaking & presentations, Public speaking anxiety, Public speaking tips, Speech video analyses
Posted The silver lining to a public speaking meltdown
Last week, Transformers director Michael Bay started a firestorm of “what not to do when public speaking” when he walked off the stage at the CES conference because his teleprompter wasn’t [...]
In Persuasive speaking, Presentation skills, Public speaking & presentations, Public speaking anxiety
Posted It happened AGAIN
Maybe it’s something in the air, or the universe is shifting, but last month I attended not one, but TWO full-day conferences dedicated to women’s growth, empowerment, and [...]
In Coaching for speakers, Engaging the audience, Presentation skills, Public speaking & presentations, Public speaking tips
Posted It will never be perfect
Last week, one of the students in my public speaking class asked if she could postpone giving her speech for another week. Why? Student: “I can give the speech today, but it won’t be [...]
In Presentation skills, Public speaking & presentations, Public speaking anxiety, Public speaking tips, Videos - 2 minute tips
Posted 4 ways to calm your nerves before giving a speech [video]
There are brilliant people who have so much anxiety over public speaking that they chose not to apply for certain jobs, they refuse to present at meetings or conferences, or they dropped out of [...]
Say Yes to the Speech!
So you’ve been asked to give a presentation. What do you do? Insist that you have WAY too much work and can’t fit it into your schedule Beg one of your co-workers to give it on your behalf Quit [...]
