Sometimes, choosing a brand for your self can be difficult. You may not yet know how or what kind of branding you want. You may feel apprehensive which is reasonable because once you have chosen to brand yourself with something, it will most likely, stick with you forever. Therefore, it is imperative to carefully decide on it.

In public speaking, your brand is like an instant declaration of what you are and what you are able to do. Your brand may build up gradually as you go along...

If it is hard to hear, people won't listen. When speaking in public you must have an excellent sound system because some of the time you will be speaking while your audience is laughing. Stand-up comics need good sound too, but they are a little different because they tell a joke, then people laugh (they hope). They tell another joke, then people laugh. A good public speaker will be rolling right along making points, showing product features, telling stories, and dropping one-liners and...

As a very outgoing, energetic, and talkative woman, I have many times spoken out of turn, and spoken without thinking. I became very proficient in apologizing. I would keep talking until I either embarrassed my listener, or hurt the feelings of my listener.

I would then lapse into,"I am so sorry. I didn't mean that how it sounded. I apologize. I was so insensitive..."

Shaking my head, I would try to remain quiet for the rest of the...

There are so many folks who have issues with talking to an audience. They are simply just afraid of looking like a fool in front of folks. They will overcome public speaking fear by trying to be thoroughly prepared with a positive attitude.

If you can work on the way that you are feeling, you are going to be able to work on the way that you see yourself and you can notice that your fear will not be so bad. However, there are some folks who are so terrified of being judged...

BEST MANS SPEECH

A wedding speech is not small potatoes.

Even the most confident people, well versed in public speaking, have a problem when asked to speak extemporally. They know that the really good speeches are rehearsed and prepared thoroughly prior to the event. To make a best mans speech without this preparation could be a social gaffe of serious proportion.

Your responsibility is to deliver the best mans speech. Remember this when you are organizing the bachelor...

Ask anybody what their greatest fear is, and speaking in public is never far from the top of their list, whether that is at a 500 delegate conference or in a board room pitch.  Ask anybody who has mastered public speaking and they will tell you that they get nervous. But they will also tell you that nerves must be mastered because the way that we inwardly feel is outwardly expressed and interpreted into the meaning of our message. Feel uncertain or apprehensive and we register...

Oops! I broke my own rules and did not follow a checklist on my last public speaking engagement. It was two minutes until start time and I realized there was no flipchart in the room. Oh oh!. Better think fast. I was not using an overhead projector either, so I could not simply write on a blank transparency. Now one and 1/2 minutes left . . . . I thought, "Never let 'em see you sweat." So, I went into the hall way to sweat. I saw a flipchart in use by the Air Force folks who...

Introduction

Public speaking is a common cause of stress for everyone. Learning exactly how to become a master public speaker can be an important skill in communicating knowledge and expressing ideas to single individuals or groups of people. It could represent a boon for anyone who seeks and finds it and makes it his or her companion.

The road to becoming a master public speaker is fraught with an abundance of how-to guidessuggestions to control feelings,...

I was recently teaching one of my corporate leaders whose company is based in Washington State. During my visit, I helped him recognize something that he took for granted—that he is in fact a visionary. Then I shared one of Walt Disney’s favorite words that he helped coin, “imagineering.” Walt Disney used to say, “If you can imagine it, you can engineer it.”

At this moment, I’m also creating a new program. One of the modules has to do...

In a field that is virtually unheard of except in Hollywood and New York City, it was eye-opening to discover that single young men, between the ages of 18 and 31, are talking about voice improvement on the internet. Many have discovered that a dynamic speaking voice and the confidence one gains from it can be a tremendous benefit in attracting women.

When I clicked on the blog, a man from Florida was explaining that he had improved his speaking voice with my DVD program and that...