Communicating With Speeches and Presentations

Presentation and speaking savvy is one of the most critical communication skills needed to move up in today's business environment. Effective and successful business leaders are comfortable with public specking and in delivering presentations. This article explains the importance of speaking and presenting and provides some practical tips to elevate these skills.

Public Speaking and Executive Women: Getting Past The Venus Myth and Why Business Women Need To

Are Female Executives facing special obstacles when it comes to Public Speaking? Are all those seminars aimed at teaching professional women to communicate really worth it? Communications Coach Aileen Pincus says its one myth women executives need to get over.

Top 10 E's to Motivate and Influence an Audience

An article on how to motivate and influence your audience.

VIP and Celebrity Speakers

Checklist for Corporate Event Planners. Everything you need to know about booking and making arrangements for VIP and celebrity speakers.

Priceless Tips for Public Speaking

Avoiding the pitfalls of public speaking is easy when you follow these helpful tips. Learn from the experience of professional speakers, and start way ahead of the game.

Public Speaking? Be Prepared!

This article discusses the need to be prepared if a public speaking or presentation session will happen. Preparation of public speaking consists of six simple, but crucial steps

Keynote Speaker - Determining A Speaker's Worth

When you are looking to hire a keynote speaker for your meeting how do you determine what that speaker is worth? Here are some guidelines that will help you make that determination.

Public Speaking Facts and Figures

When presenting a public speech, a speaker wants to make sure his or her most persuasive arguments and facts are presented. It is important to communicate a one’s message in a way that resonates with the audience, and that truly underlines the importance and validity of one’s position.

Public Speakers! Helpful Tip #1 From Your Friendly Grammar Police

Avoid doing what everbody else is doing--incorrectly. You hear this grievous error in everyday conversation, in the media, and even by the Pundits. And I bet you didn't even know it should be an embarrassing gaff!

How to Be an Influential Speaker -- Use Knowledge and Experience

As presenters, we want to be remembered as being influential. Before planning and preparing your presentation write down how you want to influence those attending. What action steps, thoughts, fears and/or lessons do you expect them to leave with, remember and be influenced by?

Presentation Strengtheners -- Ice Breakers

The first rule of breaking the ice is to involve the audience. Whether we are presenting a keynote or a workshop, the more we can get participation from the members of our audience, the more attention we will receive for the rest of our presentation.

Public Speakers! Tips on Responding Gracefully to Praise - Even When You Think You've Bombed

We're critical creatures. And when it comes to our expectations of ourselves, we're truly merciless! It may help to remember that you are your own worst critic. Here's how you can avoid letting your ego get in the way of accepting and enjoying your admirers' praises.

Practice Your Presentations -- Four Suggestions of Ways to Do It

I always stress the importance of “practice, practice, practice.” But, where do I find places to practice?” Good question. Some start by practicing in front of a mirror, but I have always found this to be unsettling and not at all the same as speaking to a group. So, I suggest speaking to a live audience and in this article, I share where to find some live audiences while you are perfecting your presentation skills.

Receiving Presentation Feedback -- Some of the Ins and Outs

As a speaker, I want to know how I am doing. However, I think that asking for and receiving feedback can be one of the hardest parts of working on our skills that exists.

Improve Your Presentation Skills -- Ask For and Make Use of Feedback

Recently, a young woman who, in preparation for giving a 90 minute seminar at a regional conference on a rather dry and technical topic, asked a group of us to preview her seminar. She told us that we were to give her honest critiques along with any tips on ways she could improve her presentation.