Speech Training - Building Your Voice, Tips from a Professional

Tips from international business speaker and former broadcaster Thomas Murrell on how to prepare your voice for presentations and speeches and ways to improve your presenting skills.

Giving Presentations: Public Speaking Secrets in a Nutshell

Public speaking fears are common. Three easy techniques make presentations more successful.

Don't Judge an Audience by its Stare

Any speaker’s initial reaction when meeting an audience is to scan its various faces and prejudge the members due to their expressions. This can be a dangerous first action. Trainers and speakers must realize that the individual who superficially looks the least interested may be getting the most out of the presentation.

Analyzing Your Audience and Assessing Comprehension Through Feedback

This article explains how to analyze the feedback your audience is giving in order to determine your progress towards an objective. Also in this article, how to ask and answer audience questions more effectively.

Training / Presentations: How to Answer Questions Your Audience Will Ask

This article addresses the issues of audience questions during and after presentations. Understand why questions are asked, what you as a presenter can learn from them and how to go about answering them.

To Insure Success in Speaking: Anticipate

Anticipating what others will say or do contributes to your effectiveness as a speaker...

How To Handle Audience Questions Effectively

Many speakers prepare their speech thoroughly but give no thought to how they will handle questions from the audience. This article explains tried and tested techniques you can use.

Presentation Skills Without PowerPoint

Communication skills head the list in the five most important factors in achieving success. Is it any wonder? Every day, in countless ways, we are presenting our ideas or our products-

What is Public Speaking?

When we talk about public speaking, we usually think about some person in front of a large group giving an extended presentation on a difficult or technical subject. That is not usually how it is. When do we most often speak in public? Knowing the answer to this question allows you to put your public speaking into perspective and overcome public speaking nervousness.

How to Become a More Persuasive Speaker: A Systems Approach

This article provides an outline of the Tracy Presentation Skills S3P3 System for planning, practicing and presenting. The objective of the article is to show both the importance of persuasive speaking for career success and an easy-to-learn method to become a persuasive speaker.

How to Use your Inner Circle

Learn about using your inner circle to gain speaking engagements for promoting your business. It is a matter of who you know and how to get to the right person.

Getting Yourself Known

Getting your first speaking engagement may be difficult but once you have a great topic and the right audience, the word will get out. This article discusses ways of getting known in the speaking industry.

Speaking for FUN and PROFIT

Many speakers gain profits from selling items at the back of the room (BOR). Others make money from getting paid speaking engagements. This article will give you some tips on how to get those engagements and get you sales.

Start Conversations as Easily as You Start a Car

Starting a car is easy. Put the key in, turn it, and the car starts. Would it not be great if starting a conversation was this easy? It can be--if you know how! Unfortunately, many people don't know ...

Beating Your Fear of Public Speaking

Knocking knees, butterflies (who came up with that word?) in your stomach, sweaty palms, quavering voice. We’ve all been there – some of us more than others. I’m going to share with you some of the t...