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Have you ever been asked to give a talk on a topic that you know nothing about? It can happen — people know that you have the ability to give effective speeches and they have a message that they want to deliver to an audience. They see you as being the perfect person to give … Read more
Nobody ever said that giving a speech was going to be something that would be easy to do, but sometimes it sure seems like it is a lot harder than it should be. What makes creating a speech so hard to do is what we want the speech to do for us: we want to … Read more
Everyone loves a mystery right? When we decide to give a speech where we’ll be sharing information with our audience that they don’t already know, it’s almost like we are unveiling a mystery novel to them. What this means for us is that we have to have done a good job of doing our homework … Read more
Let’s face it. The world is filled with a lot of people who are not very good speakers. We have a chance to hear these people speak all the time. Since we have become at least comfortable with speaking if not pretty good at it, what all of this means is that because of the … Read more
One of the most difficult types of speeches to give is the instructional speech. These are the speeches in which we have information that we would like to teach to our audience. The good news is that more often than not our audience has come to learn what we will be sharing with them. As … Read more
What will the goal of your next speech be? If you are like most of us, you understand the importance of public speaking and you’ll want to grab your audience’s attention at the start of your speech and then find a way to hold on to it throughout the rest of your speech. Although this … Read more
What will your next audience be looking for from your speech? Are they expecting to be entertained or informed? If the answer is to be informed, then you have some homework to do. If we want to give high quality speeches, then we have an obligation to take the time to do all of the … Read more
This has pretty much happened to all of us at one time or another. We’ve agreed to give a speech and eventually we sit down to write the speech and then bang – nothing comes into our mind. We draw a blank. We might know what we’ve been asked to talk about, we might know … Read more
One of the most common topics that speakers get asked to talk on is personal finance. The good news about giving this type of speech is that you are just about guaranteed that you are going to be able to keep your audience’s attention! When we give speeches like this, we need to understand the … Read more
As speakers, we know that we’ll be called on to address a wide variety of different audiences. There will be situations in which we may find ourselves addressing an audience that is facing legal issues. As speakers, we need to understand that our audience is going to be upset about the situation that they now … Read more