When someone makes the difficult look easy, we tend to label him or her “a natural.” President Barack Obama is no exception. His ability to move people through soaring rhetoric…

Mark Twain said it best: “There are two types of public speakers: those who are afraid and those who are liars.” Even for those of us who enjoy it, public…

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Few appearances will test your ability to communicate well more than the investor presentation. Doing your homework, settling on strategy, developing messages, honing a pitch and delivering it well, will…

If you're climbing the ladder of success, you're going to need the right equipment. If you're an executive looking to influence others, gain attention for your ideas or assume a…

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The Five Worst Pieces of Advice for Public Speakers and How to Ignore Them It's not as though the job isn't hard enough. Getting up in front of a roomful…

It's a stubborn myth that public speakers are born, not made. While we assume climbing the corporate ladder or being in the public eye takes hard work ,we cling to…

"There are two types of speakers; those that are nervous and those that are liars.” — Mark Twain Most of us put public speaking at the top of our list…