Stage Fright: Overcoming Nervousness

Do you give presentations at work? Do you lead meetings? Are you an actor or singer? Or perhaps you need to give a speech at a wedding soon. How does that make you feel? Nervous? Learn more about what causes those 'butterflies' in your tummy and how you can overcome them.

Manage Speaking Fear

Speaking can be scary. Here's how to manage the fear.

Dynamic Workshops - Tips to Make Your Powerful Presentations

Even though giving an inspirational keynote is exciting, I realize as a speaker that motivation disappears within a couple of weeks and definitely within a month. This is why I prefer giving workshops. My favorite structure is to present a topic over a two to four week time period to allow for assignments and feedback which benefits everyone who attends. In this article I share some workshop tips that work for me, whether it is a one time workshop or an on-going workshop.

Presenting Workshops that Are Memorable and Action Oriented

I have discovered that the majority of people prefer the hands-on workshop as their choice of presentation type. As a presenter, I also prefer leading workshops. I enjoy the interaction with participants and I feel that attendees tend to retain and use more of the material and procedures covered. In this article I share some workshop tips that I have learned over the years.

Increasing Your Message Odds

TJ Walker explains how to stay on your message points during a media interview.

Seminar Expert Says: 'Teaching The Evaluations' Makes Good Business Sense

You prepared, you marketed, you sold a company on trying your wonderful seminar, and now that the end of the program is coming, a moment of truth looms. You’re about to distribute the all-important course evaluations. Will you sink or swim? Will that fellow that has been scowling during the past day or two shaft you?

Speaking In Public: Public Speaking 101

Some simple rules for improving your public speaking skills.

Preparing to Speak in Public

How the speech is delivered is as important as the speech itself. If you give off the image that you are aggressive and pushy, you are sure to alienate your audience. A good speaker should always maintain a calm and friendly voice to avoid sending any unnecessary signals to the audience.

8 Tips: How to Keep Your Personal Communication from Suffering from Your Fear of Speaking in Public

Yesterday, during a phone consultation with a long-time client, she was telling me the myriad ways that she felt her communication with everyone suffered from her discomfort with speaking in public.

Ten Definite Ways to Aggravate Your Audience

We are all experts at playing the role of the audience, thanks to the countless presentations that we have sit through. Quite frankly, we have seen it all! I thought it would be interesting to give you my list of ten things a presenter can do to piss me off. See if this tallies with yours!

Stephen Colbert vs. John Vine - Treading on the Fine Line of Humor

Humor is a double edge sword. Use it well and be marveled at. Use it badly and be disapproved of. Where exactly is the fine line between being a funny comedian and being an insensitive prick?

What Does A Speaker Do When Everything Goes Wrong?

If you're a speaker you have worries. You may worry about Power Point not working, or arriving late at a conference, and other things. Things can and do go wrong. This author tells about her talk at a conference where lots of things went wrong and turned out right.

How To Speak Passionately And Influence Others

If you want to motivate and inpsire others you must feel comfortable speaking from the source of your own passion. This article will show you why most individuals have a problem with that and what can be done about it.

12 Surefire Strategies For Overcoming Your Fear Of Public Speaking

For many people the idea of speaking in public can be absolutely terrifying! And sociologists report that the fear of public speaking ranks even higher than the fear of death. Not to worry. Here are 12 surefire strategies to eliminate stage fright and the fear of public speaking.

Answering Audience Questions When Public Speaking

11 tips to help your next question and answer session go swimmingly well