When you speak a lot you run into some crazy room setups. It's your job to be there early to make sure all the little preparation details taken care of. One of these details is the visibility of you and your visuals from each chair in the audience.

It doesn't even amaze me any more that a hotel room setup crew would put up a projection screen that 1/3 of the audience couldn't possibly see. Most of the time this occurs when tables and or chairs are placed too far forward in the...

* Use stories during public speaking engagements to illustrate points and state the point in addition to telling the story. Always make your story relevant to the subject at hand.

* Select stories to match the intelligence, experience, occupation, and age of the audience as well as the nature of the occasion. You don't want to talk over the heads of the audience members and you don't want to bore them with stories that are too simple.

* Space stories at intervals to provide...

How many times have you spoken to a stranger on the phone and formed a mental picture of that individual only later to be surprised when you met that person face to face? How we speak and how we sound often conflict with our education, our cultural background, and even our intelligence.

Your speech reveals many things about you and yet it often does not reflect who you truly are: your training, your experience or your abilities. You may be well-educated and have a great deal of...

Your best pal is getting married; you are his bestman and you realise that bestman speeches have to be made by the nominated bestman involved. For the first time ever, you understand why the word looming is often used to denote a wall or a cliff that is about to come crashing down. On you.

Thinking about these things ramps up the anxiety. Your mates tell you its just like pulling your lip – right over the top of your head!This is not helping. You do not wish embarrass...

Imagine watching a speaker who has wonderful words of advice, encouragement, experience and/or success and that speaker never once looks in your direction – in fact, that speaker never acknowledges you or anyone filling those seats to hear his/her wonderful words. Does that happen? More often than you may think.

I have seen, as well as worked with, many people who have strong delivery skills but are lacking in one particular area. They are unable to make eye contact with...

OrHow to Meet People on the Internet or Anywhere Else Ever {Part 2}

Last post we talked about some reasons why you might not want to go up to random people on the street. Today I plan to tell you about how to avoid these fears and allow yourself to start conversations.

You need to take a deep breath

Some people are naturally kind of wary when going up to new people. You should work on calming yourself down before you make your move.

The best way to...

Organising a quality speaker is a must for the success of an event. It can be an informal social gathering or a formal corporate event. A good speaker can make the event engaging and effectively grab the attention of the audience. In the same case, companies and individuals tend to look for booking agencies that provide talented motivational speakers .

While a good speaker is an asset for an event, a celebrity speaker can substantially increase the audiences interest in the...

Although everyone trips over their words from time to time, some people do it on a constant and subconscious level. If you are an adult who has stuttering or stammering problems, then you know how strongly this affects every aspect of your life.

When most people feel nervous around meeting someone new, your nerves are taken to a whole new level. This is because you have to worry about whether or not you are going to stutter and how they are going to take it. You are used to people...

Art of Speech

Addressing to public, group of persons, meetings on a special subject is called Speech.

Industrialists and businessmen are often invited to speak at meetings. Some meetings, like conferences or seminars, are small and the audience is made up of specialists. Other meetings are large, like the gathering on occasions like an anniversary or an inauguration and the audience is mixed. With increasing awareness of the value of Public Relations in business, most...

Does this sound familiar?   Feet resolutely frozen to the floor, white-knuckled hands glued to the lectern, abject fear written all over your face?  If this sounds like you, then it is time you learned how to ‘let go and let be’ in public speaking.

When I talk about color – the life, the animation, the emotion we express in public speaking – I am talking about more than what your voice is saying.  Much of how we express ourselves is seen...