By Featured Speaker Laura Stack I was an avid reader growing up. I’ve read the Little House on the Prairie series probably 30 times and an unknown number of Black Beauty and Nancy Drew novels. I remember sitting for hours at a time, in the corner of our living room […]
Jack Palance once said in a Skin Bracer commercial, “Confidence is very sexy, don’t you think?” Yes, indeed it is … but it is also one of the public speaking superpowers that can help you be a better presenter. The funny thing with confidence is … at least in the […]
By Featured Speaker Arvee Robinson After diligently training for over five months to run in the Los Angeles Marathon, I can’t help but notice the similarity between learning how to become a more powerful speaker and how to become a powerful long-distance runner. 1. The first similarity is overcoming the […]
NOTE: This is an actual speech I gave when I was working toward my CTM in Toastmasters (circa 1989-1990). In a way, it is the seed from which Public Speaking Super Powers grew. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a […]
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 […]
“If people cannot articulate their ideas in written and oral form,” says Stephen Cox, chair and associate professor of the Department of Organizational Communication at Murray State University in Kentucky, “then those people fail to exist in our social world; they’re invisible. The way you are known and come to […]
Self Esteem + Self Confidence + Self Respect = Self Worth! Self = Net Worth – What Are You Worth? By Featured Speaker Bob Urichuck Self-esteem is an internal sense of worth. It reflects inner confidence and self-respect and it shines outwardly by the actions one takes. The self-esteem which […]
