Speaking Up for Your Career Finances

Apart from the ability to boost your career finances, public speaking is also a source of self-actualisation and of building both confidence and self-esteem.

Public Speaking: 10 Tips to Improve Public Speaking Skills

In this public speaking article, discover 10 easy tips for improving your public speaking skills. Learn how to deliver a more powerful, persuasive presentation. Recognize the secrets to overcoming your fear of public speaking.

Use These Warm-up Strategies to Give You Confidence in Your Public Speaking

Preparation is one of the keys to overcoming fear of public speaking. You work on preparing your material. There are exercises to prepare your body and your mind. But the final stage of your preparation is creating a pre-presentation routine – a warm-up, if you like. This is a set of behaviours that will work best for you so that when you begin your presentation you feel confident. Read through this article and choose what you think will work for you. It may take trial and error, but eventually you will find those things that you can do before your speech or presentation that will make you feel confident when you begin.

Model Relentless Diligence

Jan Vermeer, reaching deep within for a capacity never before considered possible, laboring long and finally succeeding in painting light. . .

Enhancing Communication Skills

Communication is the effective mode of delivering the self. The words, voice, tone, body language, style, and eye contact etc are the important ingredients of the communi­cation process. Messages are often misinterpreted, which causes confu­sion, hostility, false expectations, and shift in focus and counterproductivity.

How to Prepare For Public Speaking With Brainstorming

Start with brainstorming. If you are in the process of writing your speech you will need to brainstorm the topic. For the next 10 minutes I want you to write as fast as you can, what you want for this speech. Once you are finished you will read aloud the notes you wrote down. As you write however, do not concern yourself with precision rather write down every thought that comes from your mind on the speech topic.

How To Find Your Own Speaking Style

I recently posted a question to the world champion speakers of Toastmasters in our monthly phone conference. I asked them for some strategies that newbie speakers can adopt to identify their own speaking style. And they gave three. Thought I should share them with you.

Speech Expert Says: The Deal Isn’t Made Until The Money Is Paid!

Dr. Gary S. Goodman, top speaker, seminar producer, and Fortune 1000 consultant, discusses ways to make sure you get paid for your speeches, seminars, and presentations.

Manage Speaking Fear

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

Public Speaking and Panic Attacks

It is often observed that many people's top ranking fear is not death but having to speak in public. The joke is that these people would rather be lying in the casket at the funeral than giving the eulogy.

Speech Expert Says: Above All, Be Liked!

It pays great dividends to be liked by your audiences, as the careers of Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Reagan, and George W. Bush illustrate, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, popular keynote speaker and speech expert, best-selling author, and frequent guest on radio and TV, worldwide.

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.

Dynamic Workshops - Success Rules to Practice

I feel that workshops are one of the most effective ways to present memorable material. In this article I share some of the rules I use to ensure dynamic results.

Simple Tactics For Boosting Your Speaking Power

When looking for advice in public speaking techniques, it is easy to lose sight of some of the most powerful and simple techniques that anyone can use to skyrocket their effectiveness as a speaker. Whether you are delivering a speech before a large audience, or simply conducting a business conference call, there are things that can make the difference between capturing or losing credibility with your audience that have nothing to do with the information you are attempting to communicate.

Al Gore, A Public Speaking Role Model?

TJ Walker explains why Al Gore speaking style should be studied.