VIP and Celebrity Speakers

Checklist for Corporate Event Planners. Everything you need to know about booking and making arrangements for VIP and celebrity speakers.

How to Use Public Speaking to Promote Your Business Without Cost

There is a way to supercharge the word of mouth process by getting a lot more people experiencing your service or product at one time and it involves public speaking.

Common Presentation Habits to Avoid

In this article I discuss some of the common habits that speakers unknowingly exhibit while presenting, how to spot them, and ways to overcome them.

Presentation Skills -- The Six Most Important Lessons

With more than fourteen years as a professional speaker, trainer, and storyteller, I have learned many hard-fought lessons that work to make presentations powerful. These techniques work whether we are speaking, giving workshops, or leading meetings.

Presentation Skills -- Five Tips on Picking and Preparing Topics

There are two important factors to consider before preparing a presentation. First, is what do we want to accomplish with this presentation? What action or actions do we want our audience to take? And second, what topic developed in what manner will spur them to take that action or actions? In this article I share tips on choosing, developing, and testing successful topics.

Pauses for Presentation Power -- The Sound of Silence

When we are presenting, and especially when we are new to speaking, we often speed ahead -- afraid of leaving blank spaces. Successful sales people know the power of silence. As presenters, if we learn to use silence and pauses to our advantage, we will not only reach our listeners more effectively, they will also understand and remember our messages more readily.

Audience Participation Adds Power to Your Presentations

To be remembered as powerful presenters, we must develop rapport with our audience. One of the most effective ways to do this is by involving each and every person through participation. Participation is more than asking for a show of hands in answer to some inane question like, “How many of you wish you had more time?” In this article I share tips on how to create meaningful audience participation.

Fear of Public Speaking: How To Get Over It

A fear of public speaking is something that many people face and is one that can be very hard to shake. Practice can help you get rid of this fear but what if you’re too scared to even try?

Use Community Storytelling to Enliven Your Surroundings

When we know someone’s story, we can’t help but like them. It doesn’t matter what ethnic, cultural, or material differences we have, we all have stories in common. In days gone by, we sat on porches telling and listening to stories. Today, I don’t see many people telling stories on their porches, which is a shame. But we can enliven our communities and neighborhoods by forming storytelling groups. Here are some suggestions.

Presentation Ethics -- It's a Matter of Trust

There are ethics and principles that we, as speakers, should embrace and follow. In this article I highlight and explain the speaker’s ethics and principles in which I believe.

Eight Steps to Better Public Speaking

How public speakers can overcome nervous and stage fright. How to prepare your speech beforehand. The best time to rehearse. How to psych yourself up before going onstage. How to make an audience like you.

The Secret of Persuasive Presentations - It's In The Voice!

In making a presentation, speaking isn't enough. You need to be able to be heard AND understood. And you need to be persuasive. Learn about the 4 Ps for persuasive presentations.

Profit From Effective Public Speaking

Developing and utilizing presentation skills can result in increased income for you. Here are a few ways that you can turn your public speaking experience into business profits.

Public Speaking: I Get So Emotional

If you want to get real action out of your audience during a public speaking engagement, then tugging on their heart strings can help make it happen. This is where your storytelling ability can really make you shine.

Public Speaking: Specific Objectives

Make sure you find out exactly what you are supposed to accomplish when you are asked to do a public speaking engagement. It is best to have it in writing.