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As public speakers, there is often the chance that we’ll be called on to give a speech on an important social issue. What we need to realize is that topics like this can cause our audience to become highly charged — there’s no question that they’ll be paying attention to what we are saying! This … Read more

As a public speaker, one of the most challenging things that we’ll be called on to do is to provide an audience with instructions on how to handle a situation that they have not encountered before. In order to do this correctly, we need to do our homework and make sure that we have the … Read more

Giving a speech on an emotionally charged topic is a difficult thing to do. As speakers we need to be sure that we understand the audience that we’ll be talking to and how they feel about the topic that we’ll be discussing with them. When we are asked to give speeches like this, one of … Read more

There will be times that you will be called on to give a speech to an audience that may have a lot of emotion invested in what you will be talking about. As a speaker, it is important that you know what you are getting into. Somehow, your audience has gotten themselves into a situation … Read more

There are a number of different types of speeches that we may call on to deliver. One of the most challenging is the speech that contains a great deal of data. Generally we don’t have any problems doing our homework and finding the data that we need for our speech. However, where things can get … Read more

One of the reasons that speakers are asked to give a speech is because there is an audience that want’s to learn how to do something. These are often the best audiences for us to address because they are eager to learn and they will pay close attention to what we have to tell them. … Read more

As public speakers, it is our responsibility to use our skills to make the world a better place. There are times that we may be called on to speak on important social issues. When we are presented with an opportunity like this, it is our responsibility to make sure that we take the time to … Read more

One of the biggest challenges that speakers can face is when they are asked to talk about a very complicated subject. Yes, we like to think that we can talk about just about anything, but if the topic is complex, then we have some serious research ahead of us. This of course brings up the … Read more

A key part of any good speech that we give is research. We are the ones who are responsible for taking the time to determine all of the facts that we want to present to our audience in our speech. Research is not an easy thing to do correctly. We need to take the time … Read more

As speakers, we can be called on to talk with parties that are in conflict with each other. Although we may not be tasked with resolving their conflicts, we need to be aware that they are not seeing eye-to-eye and we need to tailor our speech to meet their unique needs. In order to get … Read more