Top 10 Do Nots When Working With Meeting Planners

Don't Be Demanding - Remember planners are only going to book speakers who they like, this is pretty basic but true, if you’re too demanding and they don’t like you or they don’t feel there’s a connection they won’t hire you.

Public Speaking – Keep Your Audience’s Attention With These 4 Basic Techniques

We all have short attention spans. This is exacerbated in these days of communication delivered in truncated, rapid-fire bytes. So when you are designing your presentation you need to factor in frequent ways to keep your audience’s attention. To keep your audience focused on you and your message right through your next presentation, try these four basic techniques.

Effective Public Speaking: How to Choose a Good Informative Speech Topic

This article provides some useful advice related to choosing a good presentation topic, perhaps the most difficult part in the process of preparing a presentation. Follow these guidelines and you will be on your way to having a relevant, interesting, useful speech that will capture your audience's attention!

Speech And Drama Exams For Very Young Children

Serena Greenslade, founder of the Speak Up Academy of Speech and Drama has introduced speech exams for children as young as three.

The Perfect Wedding Speech

The biggest single problem with free wedding speeches that are available on the Internet is that they are generic to try and appeal to a wide audience. The information in them is very general. Whereas you will want to use specific information that is directly relevant to the couple in order to create the perfect wedding speech.

How to Write a Speech

If public speaking scares you, you are not alone. Learn how to write and structure a speech or presentation so that your thoughts are ordered, you communicate your key messages, and you feel in control.

The Art Of Speaking: Winning The Mental Game Of Presenting

Do your audiences view you as a master speaker? What would you have to do to boost your speaking to the next level? To kick your speaking up a notch, take any of these 13 tips on as a project and watch your investment in yourself as a speaker grow.

Professional Speaking – Getting Started

It’s natural to start thinking about getting paid to speak once you have a few successful engagements under your belt. But how do you get started? Here is a fast and easy way to move from free to fee in the arena of public speaking.

Can You Become A Copywriter And Be A Wreck At Public Speaking?

Find yourself completely unable to speak in front of others and STILL dream of landing a copywriting career? Guess what...there's hope.

Giving A Public Speech

We all dread the feeling of talking in public. Have you asked yourself why? Apparently, there are no good reason why such should be the case except for the excuses and self-made fears from observation and from our past experiences.

Charismatic Communication: How Self-Focus And Narcissism Destroys Your Potential As A Leader

Social commentators and communication gurus often lament that people ecology (empathy, interest, curiosity in others and the spirits of equality and fraternity) has been replaced by fragmentation of communities into cliques and clans which have little interest in anyone outside their own physical, ideological or socio-economic territories. However, for the leader who wishes to generate appeal and influence across boundaries people ecology is a key building block.

Conference Presentation Tips: An Audience Perspective

I have attended numerous presentations as a feature writer and some are cures for insomnia. Enhance your presentations by avoiding mistakes. Make a better impression by following these tips.

After Dinner Speaking, Hero or Coward?

Have you been asked to be an after dinner speaker? This article helps you see some of the pitfalls and will help you overcome them.

Factors To Look Out For To Enhance Your Speed Reading Skills!

Speed reading is a hobby anyone can do. It is the process of browsing, scanning, and flicking through pages to locate relevant details that can help the speed reader to comprehend what he is reading. A speed reader realizes that he need not dwell on any information that is not clear to him.

The Use Of Reading Styles To Increase Your Speed Reading Skills!

The ability to read very well is an ability that nearly all of us have. However, we are not content with just knowing how to read, some of us want to master the art of reading very fast. That is why we have a subject called Speed Reading. Just as each of us have reading skills familiar to us, the same applies in speed reading. However, there are speed reading styles that can be employed to help one to achieve an unbelievable speed reading rate.