Art of Oratory

Open Your Speech with a Startling Statistic

One in five Americans reads below a fifth grade level! The average person spends two years of their life on…

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Open a Speech with Questions

One simple way to open a speech is with questions—usually three. How will you captivate your audience at the beginning…

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Nervous? Don’t Picture the Audience Naked!

Who came up with that piece of advice? Unless you’re speaking at a super-model convention, don’t picture the audience naked.…

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Need Their Attention? Train Your Audience

I watched a speaker disperse the audience into discussion groups of four people … And then struggle to get them…

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Manage an Unruly Audience

Hopefully, you’ll never face a hostile or unruly audience but it’s worth thinking about how you’d handle one. If members…

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Let Your Audience in on Your Unspoken Thoughts

Sometimes we say one thing when we want to say another. Maybe you need to reject someone but you want…

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Interview Prep

I’ve appeared as a guest on many podcasts. My hosts are almost always astonished when I refer them to the…

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In Public Speaking, Being Theatrical is Authentic!

So many speakers—even professional ones—are afraid to be “theatrical.” They worry that will be inauthentic or phony. A speaker I…

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I, We, and You

We talked about the I-infection—about people who talk incessantly about themselves. I did this and I did that. That gets…

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How to Structure a Speech Part 3: Create the Opening

In part 1 we defined the transformation. By knowing how we want our audience to think, feel, or act differently…

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