By Featured Speaker Louis Lautman So you got the job, the money is good, the co-workers are friendly your boss likes you and then it happened. You feel your throat hit your stomach and your heart skips a beat. You have been asked to do the last thing on earth […]
How much you need to prepare for a speech depends on several things: How well do you know your topic? The more you know your topic, the less time you’ll need to prepare what you’ll be saying. However, you still need to prepare an outline or bullet points so you […]
Once upon a time, I became a Mary Kay consultant. Yes … a person who rarely wears makeup was selling makeup! But do you know what I remember most about that time in my life? The insistence that a woman cannot look professional unless she’s wearing a dress. Yep, you […]
By Featured Speaker Wendy L. Kinney Editor’s Note: When you speak at events, you will more than likely pick up a few business cards. What you do with them after the event can make or break your efforts to grow your business. In this article, Wendy Kinney shares with you […]
Here is the third and final installment of excerpts from For the Love of Public Speaking, a 27-minute introduction to Toastmasters I produced during a Television Production Workshop at Santa Rosa Junior College in 1994. This week I cover “Presentation.” The information in this video is targeted to people who […]
There are many benefits to using humor in your speech, however, I’ll be the first to tell you that humor is a tricky thing. You see, one person’s humor is another person’s “what were you thinking?” But, if you can weave some humor into your speech that gets the audience laughing; that is appropriate to your topic, and that doesn’t offend anyone, you can reap many of the following benefits.
By Featured Speaker Arvee Robinson Great speakers seem to present to an audience effortlessly, without a drop of sweat on their brow, not a flutter in their voice, and no bungled words. They hold us in awe, captivate us, leave us hanging on their every word and easily persuade us […]
