Newspaper and Magazine Articles
- Warren Buffet Says This One Skill Will Boost Your Career Value by 50 Percent
- How to be heard: The art of public speaking
- Seven Principles of Effective Public Speaking
- Why Are We Scared of Public Speaking?
- A Quiet Person’s Guide to Public Speaking
Management Study Guide
- Public Speaking – An Overview
- Role of Communication in Effective Public Speaking
- Preparing for Public Speaking
- Public Speaking and Career Growth
- Role of Confidence and Attitude in Public Speaking
- Role of Dressing in Public Speaking
In-Depth Articles
Ethos, Pathos, Logos: Three Pillars of Public Speaking
Detailed guide to credibility, emotion, and logic which are the secret to persuasive speaking.
Audience Analysis Series
Covers what questions to ask, how to get the answers, and how to improve your presentations as a result of audience analysis. Includes free worksheet.
Speech Preparation Series
10-article series examining the six steps which are necessary to prepare a speech, reduce nervousness, and combat fear.
Speech Analysis Series
5-article series examining presentation analysis as a key skill to improve your speaking skills.
Toastmasters Speech Series
Your guide to the 10 speeches of the Toastmasters Competent Communicator Program.
Rule of Three & Speechwriting
Comprehensive guide to this powerful speechwriting technique as it applies to crafting memorable phrases, speech outlines, and speech humor.
Speechwriting
- Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: Book Review
- Electrify Your Audience with a Shocking Speech Opening
- Speech Preparation #1: How to Prepare a Presentation
- Speech Preparation #2: Selecting a Speech Topic
- Speech Preparation #3: Don’t Skip the Speech Outline
- Speech Preparation #4: Wrestling Writer’s Block to Write the First Draft
- Speech Preparation #5: Six Power Principles for Speech Editing
- Speech Preparation #6: Add Impact with Rhetorical Devices
- Toastmasters Speech Series: Your Guide to the First 10 Speeches
- Toastmasters Speech 1: The Ice Breaker
- Toastmasters Speech 2: Organize Your Speech
- You Can Learn to Present Like Steve Jobs
- Toastmasters Speech 3: Get to the Point
- Wrap Your Naked Statistics in a Warm Blanket of Meaning
- Toastmasters Speech 4: How to Say It
- 5 Speechwriting Lessons from Obama’s Inaugural Speech
- Analysis and Opinions: Obama Inauguration Speech
- Book Review: Advanced Presentations by Design by Andrew Abela
- How to Use the Rule of Three in Your Speeches
- Why Successful Speech Outlines follow the Rule of Three
- How to Add Power or Humor with the Rule of Three
- How to Make Metaphorical Magic in Your Speech
- Best Man Speech: What’s the Key to Succeed?
- How to Deliver the Talk of Your Life
- TEASE ’em: 5 Ways to Start Your Speech
- 10 Ways to End Your Speech with a Bang
- Ethos, Pathos, Logos: 3 Pillars of Public Speaking
- What is Ethos and Why is it Critical for Speakers?
- 15 Tactics to Establish Ethos: Examples for Persuasive Speaking
- Book Review: Made to Stick
- What is Pathos and Why is it Critical for Speakers?
- 18 Paths to Pathos: How to Connect with Your Audience
- Book Review: Thank You For Arguing (Jay Heinrichs)
- Rally Your Audience with a Signature Close
- 8 Speechwriting Lessons You Can Learn from Songwriters
- What is Logos and Why is it Critical for Speakers?
- 17 Easy Ways to Be a More Persuasive Speaker
- How to Axe Your Presentation… and Still Deliver Value
- Toastmasters Speech 7: Research Your Topic
- Speechwriting Hocus Pocus: Summoning Your Magical Powers
- How to Introduce a Speaker: 16 Essential Tips for Success
- The Secret of Choosing Successful Speech Topics
- Presentation Power: Four Ways to Persuade
- How to Weave Statistics Into Your Speech
- How to Ace the Impromptu Speech
- Bookending Your Speech: A Master Technique
- Speech Critique: Dan Pink (TED 2009)
- Be More Memorable by Repeating Your Speech Words (Anaphora)
- Book Review: Resonate (Nancy Duarte)
- How to Use Quotes in Your Speech: 8 Benefits and 21 Tips
- 28 Tips for Designing Training Courses: Case Study
- What is Charisma? Can it be Learned?
- How to Use Rhetorical Questions in Your Speech
- How to Write Memorable Speech Lines (Chiasmus)
- How to Master the Demonstration Speech
- How to Improve Your Speeches Through Audience Analysis
- Parallelism 101: Add Clarity and Balance to Your Speeches
- Speech Transitions: Magical Words and Phrases
- 5 Keys to End Your Speech with a Great Call-to-Action
- The Ladder of Abstraction and the Public Speaker
- Book Review: Writing Tools (Roy Peter Clark)
- Book Review: Presentation Patterns (Neal Ford, Matthew McCullough, Nathaniel Schutta)
- Spice Up Your Speechwriting (Epiphora)
- How to Sequence Your Presentation
- Book Review – Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History (William Safire)
- 8 Ways to Use Contrast in Your Speeches
- How to Research Your Speech Topic
- Cognitive Biases: A Guide for Public Speakers
- 9 Tips to Make Your Speech Memorable
- Book Review: 101 Ways to Make Training Active (Mel Silberman)
- How to Prepare for Presenting to Senior Executives
Delivery Techniques
- Leading the Perfect Q&A
- Q&A Tips from Toastmasters International President
- Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: Book Review
- Never Read Your Speech… Never?
- Should a Speaker Apologize to the Audience?
- Speech Preparation #7: Choreograph Your Speech with Staging, Gestures, and Vocal Variety
- Connect With Your Audience: Don’t Hide Your Emotions When Speaking
- Are… um… Filler Words… ah… Okay?
- Toastmasters Speech 5: Your Body Speaks
- How to Deliver the Talk of Your Life
- Toastmasters Speech 6: Vocal Variety
- Are Your Speech Gestures Too Small, Too Big, or Just Right?
- How to Connect With Your Audience by Moving Closer
- Speaking in Church: Lectern or No Lectern?
- Culture Clash: 5 Tips for Cross-Cultural Communication
- Breathing: The Seductive Key to Unlocking Your Vocal Variety
- Book Review: Confessions of a Public Speaker (Scott Berkun)
- 18 Paths to Pathos: How to Connect with Your Audience
- Speak Up! A Guide to Voice Projection
- Boost Your Speaking Confidence Through Improv
- Pump Up Your Speaking Voice with a Strength Training Workout
- Presentation Power: Four Ways to Persuade
- 6 Communication Barriers and How You Can Avoid Them
- How to Stop Saying Um, Uh, and Other Filler Words
- How to Make Reading a Speech Not Like Reading a Speech
- How to Weave Statistics Into Your Speech
- How to Thrive When Speaking Outside
- How to Ace the Impromptu Speech
- Speech Pauses: 12 Techniques to Speak Volumes with Your Silence
- 28 Tips for Designing Training Courses: Case Study
- Book Review: The Naked Presenter (Garr Reynolds)
- What is the Average Speaking Rate?
- 3 Eye Contact Myths… and How to Avoid Them In Your Speech
- Simple Secrets to Improve Your Eye Contact
- Volume and the Public Speaker: Be Heard and Be Effective
- How to Lead a Discussion Group
- How to Manage 8 Tough Personas in a Group Discussion
- Book Review: Presentation Patterns (Neal Ford, Matthew McCullough, Nathaniel Schutta)
- How to be a Confident Speaker with a Speech Disorder
- How to Use Notes in a Speech: A Guide for Speakers
- Body Movement Tips for Public Speakers
- Cognitive Biases: A Guide for Public Speakers
- Spotlight Effect: How Aware of You is Your Audience?
- Illusion of Transparency and Public Speaking Fear
- Book Review: 101 Ways to Make Training Active (Mel Silberman)
Visual Aids
- Critique: Lessig Method Presentation Style (Dick Hardt, Identity 2.0, OSCON 2005)
- Six Simple Techniques for Presenting Data: Hans Rosling (TED, 2006)
- Presentation Zen Book Review
- Presentation Zen Slide Examples
- Use PowerPoint Visuals, Not Bullets – What the World Eats
- World’s Best Presentation Contest
- PowerPoint Book Review – Clear and to The Point: 8 Psychological Principles for Compelling PowerPoint Presentations
- Book Review – slide:ology by Nancy Duarte
- PowerPoint Design Wish List: 8 Modest Proposals
- How to Improve Your PowerPoint Slides with the Rule of Thirds
- Book Review: Multimedia Learning by Richard E. Mayer
- Book Review: Universal Principles of Design
- Book Review: The Back of the Napkin – Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures (Dan Roam)
- The 10-20-30 Rule: Guy Kawasaki on PowerPoint
- Stop, Prepare, THEN PowerPoint
- How Many Slides Should You Have? How Many Slides Do You Need?
- How to Create Pro Slides in Less Time: Don’t Worry, Be CRAPpy
- 28 Tips for Designing Training Courses: Case Study
- What is an Ignite presentation, and why should you try it?
- Slide Title Guidelines: Use Assertions, Not Topics
- Flip Charts 101: How to Use Flip Charts Effectively
- How to Choose and Use Speech Props: A Speaker’s Guide
- Book Review: Presentation Patterns (Neal Ford, Matthew McCullough, Nathaniel Schutta)
- Slide Fonts: 11 Guidelines for Great Design
- Slide Charts: 20 Guidelines for Great Presentation Design