Public Speaking Don’ts: What NOT to Say
In a series of Public Speaking Don’ts, I wrote last month’s article, The Graduation Speech No One Wants to Hear. I got a number of notes (which I love getting!) giving me first-person accounts of various graduations. “The student speaker was amazing!” “The...
The Graduation Speech No One Wants to Hear
The Top Ten Tips for giving a graduation speech people will talk about for years to come.
Four Steps to Become Great at Anything
There are four steps to becoming great at anything. This includes learning how to drive. It’s my second (and last!) experience training a teen driver. Driver #2 has a different outlook, a few challenges (a few months off due to a surgery which equated to less...
Storytelling in public speaking: Match your story to a moral
How do you match your story to a moral? And how do you use it in public speaking? Match your story to a moral… I had a dream. Not a Martin Luther King, Jr. dream. A real dream. One while I was sleeping. I suppose that I have lots of dreams, but I...
