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Loyal readers & subscribers, here’s hoping that this upcoming week is a great week for you — I’m taking it off! Blogging will resume next week… For my readers in the U.S., you know that this week is all about family, turkey, and of course football. I’m not sure what it is about turkey that … Read more

One of the most challenging types of speeches to give is the one in which you are trying to teach your audience something new. You have the knowledge, you just have to find a way to use your speech to pass that knowledge on to your audience. The good news is that these speeches are … Read more

As speakers, we can never be certain what the next speech that we’ll be asked to present will be. There may be circumstances that we’ll be asked to talk to an audience that has just experienced a life changing event. In those cases, we need to make sure that we take the time to do … Read more

One of the most enjoyable speeches that we can be called upon to give is what I like to to think of as a “forward looking” speech. The reason that I like this type of speech is that we are being asked to give our opinion on what the future will hold for our audience. … Read more

One of the most challenging speeches that we may be asked to give is one in which we provide our audience with advice. The audience has come to hear us speak because they believe that we know the best way to handle a situation and so we’re under the gun to make sure that we … Read more

As speakers, we can sometimes get overwhelmed with all that we have to do. If we’ve agreed to give a speech, there is the research, preparation and practice that we need to get done. All of these things can start to build up and before we know it, we find that we simply have too … Read more

Speakers understand that every audience that we speak to is different. What this means for us is that we have to do our homework and make sure that the speech that we’ll be delivering is well suited for the audience that we’ll be addressing. One of the most powerful types of speeches that we can … Read more

As speakers we are often asked to address businesses and business owners. These audiences share a common need: they want to know how to make their businesses more successful. As speakers, we can connect with this type of audience if we take the time research our audience before we make a presentation to them. Carefully … Read more

When we are asked to give a speech to a group of professionals, our first task should be to make sure that we take the time to fully understand who we will be talking to. The key to understand what they are trying to accomplish and then to shape our speech to match their specific … Read more