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.

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.

7 Sure Fire Ways To Overcome Stage Fright When Speaking Or Performing

In thirty years of speaking and performing I have heard just about every solution for overcoming stage fright. Some have suggested trying to envision your audience all being naked. Others have advised that you just pick one point of focus in the room such as one person’s forehead and concentrate only on that. These ideas almost never work, so here are a few better ideas for your consideration.

Public Speaking: Getting the Room Set-up Right

Hotel banqueting departments seem to have a fixed policy of a few standard room set-up arrangements and no matter what you ask for they seem to give you the standard room set up that is nearest to what you ask for. How the room is arranged can make or break your seminar or meeting so here are a few tips on how to be more creative.

Public Speaking: 10 Steps to Avoid PowerPoint Becoming a Deadly Virus

PowerPoint can destroy a great speech, or prevent a great speech every being created. Profession Speaker Rikki Arundel highlights the dangers or using PowerPoint and provides 10 great tips to avoid them and keep your audience awake.

Myths of Public Speaking: #1 You'll Always Be Nervous

You may feel that you will always be nervous as a public speaker, but it’s not true unless you have a disorder. I know some speakers who brag about still being nervous even after doing the same speech for ten years. Please. I don’t need that kind of pressure. Part of the problem is that we fail to recognize the difference in excitement and anxiety. Discover the difference and your public speaking will take a turn to greater confidence.

Present Like a PRO - Ten Ways to WOW Your Audience!

This article is a condensed version of Alan Cutler’s ebook in which he explains to inexperienced speakers, trainers and presenters the ‘Ten Ways to WOW Your Audience’, and includes a host of tips and advice from a professional speaker himself.

The Most Frequently Asked Questions About Representation for Securing Paid Speaking Engagements

Get the answers from someone who has been booking speakers since 1982!

How to Write Your Speech in Five Minutes

Follow this sure-fire process to write your speech in five minutes or less.

Talk About Confidence

If you are new to public speaking and wondering when or if you'll ever get past your nerves, this article will inspire you to reduce your mental chaos to a simple equation.

Improving as a Public Speaker: How Do You Start?

The greatest fear among most people is the fear of public speaking. Even Cicero, a Roman considered the best public speaker of all time, use to cite it as the thing he was most afraid of. So how do you go about becoming a good speaker if you’ve never done it before?

How to Grab Your Audience Attention when Public Speaking

You need to grab the attention of your audience right from the start when speaking in public. This article provides some simple strategies to always gain audience attention.

Challenge, Inform or Get Off The Stage - Presentation Skills and Powerful Public Speakers

The fear of public speaking keeps many professionals from taking a lead roll in the workplace. It shouldn't. With some basic do's and don'ts and practice, you can be a powerful public speaker.

5 Steps to Overcome Fear of Public Speaking

How to overcome the fear of public speaking.