How to Be Funny Without Telling Jokes: Eight Humor Tips for Speakers

For sixteen years, I have been showing audiences how to find humor in not-so-funny stuff. Thousands of people have laughed a lot in my presentations yet I don't tell jokes. This article provides eight ways I get people to laugh.

How to Write A Funny Best Man Speech - Learn From Comedians (Part Two)

Every Best Man wants to write and deliver that knock your socks off speech that all the guests remember. To do that it's best to use the techniques employed by the professionals - comedians. In the second article in the series, we look at ways to prepare that speech.

Do's And Don'ts Of Using Humour In Speeches And Presentations

Some speeches and presentations are so lively and fun to attend, while some are dry. What are the rules for using humour skillfully in speeches and presentations? In addition to the rules there are some dangers of using humour wrongly. This articles gives guidelines for using humour skillfully in speeches and presentations.

How To Give a Best Man Toast

To be asked to be best man at a friend's wedding is an honor but it does have a downside - the need to make the best man wedding toast. Find out how to make your best man wedding toast here.

Best Man Wedding Toast

A Wedding Toast is a universal staple for any wedding reception. Anyone who has been to a wedding knows that a wedding toast can be executed in a multitude of ways. The different methods of giving a wedding toast are what separate the speech giver between appearing to be a generously admired hero from an ill-considered fool with their foot in their mouth. With proper preparation and guidance, the later can be avoided with no problem at all.

Open Your Mouth to Speak? Nah - That's for Sissies

Your speech content maybe superb. You may LOOK great but if nobody can understand what you're saying because you don't open your mouth while talking, your speech is wasted. Articulation exercises are the key to vocal clarity. Unlock that jaw and free your speech now.

Public Speaking - One Key Strategy to Overcome Fear

Shaking, sweaty palms, elevated heart rate, dizziness, anxiety attacks, insomnia, and a complete loss of bladder control. No, these are not the potential side effects for the latest and greatest pill from Pfizer. They are symptoms of Glossophobia- the fear of public speaking. Did you know that there is one simple thing that speakers can do to reduce their fear dramatically? It is all about perception.

Persuasion - Logic and Reason Require Knowing the Audience

Persuasion to be effective requires having knowledge of the audience and their values. For logical thought and sound reasoning to be appreciated by the audience, it needs to be reasonable to them. To know if it is reasonable would require taking the time to get to know them before speaking to them.

10 Essential Steps to Communicate Effectively As a Speaker

Being able to communicate effectively through words has been a much-coveted secret for centuries. Benefit in public speaking and your personal communication from the 10 basics...

Finding Your Voice As a Public Speaker

Now more than ever inquiring minds want to know what it takes to have a command of the platform while they are speaking. To learn exactly what to do, read this article and you will have answers to your must pressing questions.

Are You a Glossophobic? Do You Fear Public Speaking?

People who suffer from glossophobia, the fear of public speaking, may need some time to recognize they have a very real phobia. It may take multiple trials and failed attempts at making an effective speech for them to realize they have a very real problem. Usually by the time the consistent pattern of panic occurs, the person feels so disheartened by their abilities that their confidence is stricken and they are convinced they are unworthy, or just plain 'no good' at speaking in public. In this vein of thinking, the person then will avoid at all costs the situation of being forced to speak in public and when it is cleverly or luckily avoided, they feel immense relief.

Turning Your Written Speech Into A Successful, Effective Presentation

It is one thing to write a speech. It is, however, a completely different thing to present that speech as a successful presentation. We have all experienced how boring it can be to sit through a presentation where someone simply reads what they have written, whether they are reading from a script or from PowerPoint slides.

Speaking Success - Does Your Audience Care?

Here is an unfortunate secret when it comes to giving great presentations – your audience doesn't care about you, they only care about what's in it for them!

6 Public Speaking Tips For Powerful Delivery

Make sure you know these six public speaking tips regarding regressions, the sound check, stressing principle ideas, why accurate reading is so important, how to be coherent, and why you need to express things your way.

How To Break 'The Fourth Wall' To Connect With Your Audience

Persuasive public speaking is all about connecting with your audience. One of the quickest ways to heighten your audience connection is to use a theatre acting technique called 'Breaking the Fourth Wall.'