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Analyzing Your Audience

Date: July 9, 2014

No matter how great your content, it won’t get heard unless you are tweaking your speaking to address ...

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Public Speaking – The Money’s in the Template

Date: July 2, 2014

The best public speakers in the world all agree on one thing. You can’t get good at public ...

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Tools for the Professional Speaker
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Write a Better Speech With Better Tools

Date: January 30, 2014

What’s in YOUR Speech Toolbox? My husband is a tool guy. He’s a car guy and a DIY ...

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How to Pause Effectively in Your Speaking
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How to Use the Power of the Pause in Public Speaking

Date: June 27, 2013

Learning how to use the power of the pause in public speaking can be one of the most ...

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Discover the Right Way to Increase Your Volume Without Shouting

Date: June 25, 2013

One of the difficulties many people have is to the ability to increase their volume without hurting their ...

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Body language & gestures during a speech
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What Language is Your Body Speaking?

Date: June 9, 2013

Body language. The nonverbal communication of your body that can tell your audience you are speaking with confidence ...

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HELP! My Speech Isn't Funny!
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Public Speaking: What to Do When Nobody Laughs at Your Jokes

Date: June 7, 2013

One of the worst nightmares of every public speaker — especially for comedians — is telling a joke ...

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Examine your life... write your story...
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The Value of Your Story

Date: January 16, 2013

In the Industrial Age, the idea of spending time and money to understand our “why I’m alive story” ...

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Public Speaking Secrets for Toastmasters
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TALK: 4 Simple Steps to Effective Public Speaking

Date: December 3, 2012

Speaking in public isn’t as difficult as one might think, providing you go at it with a plan. ...

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How to be a better speaker
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3 Ways to Improve Public Speaking Skills

Date: December 10, 2011

First of all, if you want to be an effective public speaker and improve your public speaking skills, ...

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Speaking Tips to Wake Your Audience!
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I’m Going to Talk to You About . . . Z Z Z Z Z Z

Date: July 29, 2011

Let’s be honest. As much as people hate giving a presentation, it’s no thrill listening to most of ...

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What to do when your audience is bored
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This Is Why Your Audience Isn’t Paying Attention to You…

Date: June 11, 2011

Ever get the feeling that your audience just isn’t listening to what you are telling them? I mean ...

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How to Improve Your Presentation Before Saying a Single Word

Date: June 1, 2011

You have spent many hours, if not days, preparing to give a big presentation at a conference or ...

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Exceptional Public Speaking – How to Ignite an Audience

Date: May 30, 2011

One of the most thrilling, challenging (and for many people) frightening opportunities is that of public speaking. Whether ...

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The Elevator Speech – Your 60 Second Pitch

Date: February 21, 2011

Have you ever been to a networking meeting, you hear the first person introduce himself and you turn ...

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