A lot of speakers cautiously choose their topics, select a concrete purpose, look for good supporting resources, and yet never experience success in public speaking. It may be partly due to misfortune, but it is mostly attributable to how they have outlined and organized their thoughts.

It is like writing an essay. You need to start with a thesis and decide the main points that will clarify or develop it. Organizing, therefore, is stating the thesis of the speech and listing down...

Chinese Hats Seldom Impress European Queens

Anand Chaturvedi

You must be wondering, "What does that mean"!

This is precisely how I start a class on training people to make ‘openings that get undivided attention' from their audiences. I ask them a couple of times and get really hilarious responses but finally I tell them that the sentence actually means nothing and invariably people burst into laughter.

The sentence has a hidden formula for...

" How to make your voice deeper " is an ever increasing-in popularity question. This question is not only asked by men, it is also asked some women. The truth is that women consider deep voices to be sexier. That is why men with deep voices usually have an upper hand in getting dates, - at least more than men with squeaky voices or people with just normal voices.

If you want to get a deeper voice, learninghow to make your voice deeperwill be a good thing for you to...

Writing an essay, taking a pop quiz, and giving a speech probably are three of the tasks students dread most. Speaking in public terrifies many people of all ages. Adolescents are not immune. It doesn't matter that they may be speaking only to their closest friends; most students feel very nervous because peer pressure is so intense. Usually there are a few students who delight at being given a chance to address their classmates. Over time with practice, the rest can learn to enjoy...

Being roasted is an honor, but you must be careful to honor people while you are roasting them during a public speaking engagement. Joke about things that are obviously untrue, then exaggerate them to make them more obvious. Or, you can outrageously exaggerate things that are true.

When choosing the butt of a roast joke or story, pick big targets. Never make fun of a small target (janitor, secretary, etc.). Make fun of the boss. He or she is still the boss after all the teasing...

We all know that being in the public eye is not only a huge part of running a business but also a key aspect to being taken seriously as a professional in Network Marketing, Sales, Corporate Relations, etc. Unfortunately, the fear of public speaking can make or break our success in life. Conquering the FEAR that most people experience when they speak in front of others is most easily understood in four steps that just happen to coincide with the actual letters in the word...

Most courses require students to give a presentation at some point during their studies, for many the prospect fills them with dread. Unfortunately or fortunately depending upon your perspective, the inherent nature of graduate jobs means that at some point there will be a requirement to present to or address an audience.

The prospect of presenting is so distressing for some that they waste too much time worrying and vital preparation time is lost. Worrying is counter...

Effective public speakers have a strange sense of power in them that draws a crowd like a moth to the flame. People who are witness to their strength can’t help but wonder what gives them such a commanding presence. How can they capture the awe and inspiration of the people? The answer lies in hypnotic persuasion techniques for public speakers.

Of course, these techniques are subtler than you think. Even someone who isn’t used to public speaking can make use of...

A great new idea is like striking gold for any leader and team. It can be collected, examined, enriched and sold. But the process of finding the gold can be difficult even for the best of leaders and managers.

Creative Filters that thwart creativity- “I will not offer my idea until I am sure it’s what my boss is really looking for.” “The last time I offered an idea my colleagues ridiculed me.” “My ideas are too off the wall for my...

It is the first thing we do at birth; it will be the last thing we do at death.  It is the most important thing we do every day of our lives.

Dogs do it; cats do it; cows do it; and, horses do it.  In fact all other mammals do it and they do it properly; it is only man – and that is 99% of us – who is doing it wrong.

On the podium, we not only do it wrong but many of us are not doing it at all!

It is called breathing.  And right now you are...