The Art, Science, and Business of Speaking
A Guest Post from Catherine Joyner You’re standing on a podium behind a lectern giving a speech to a packed house and you’re hands start shaking ever so slightly. You start to notice beads of sweat trickling down your face and you become self-conscious and nervous that people will notice. […]
The National Speakers Association’s 2011 Annual Convention starts this weekend and it promises to be “rad, relevant, fresh, practical, fun and thought-provoking.” I would add overwhelming to the list… unless you go in with a plan. Do you have plan? If not, let me give you one. (You can adapt […]
Your value as a speaker is not in what you know… It’s in what you can help others do. [ad code=4 align=center] Last week we wrapped up the Succeed Speaking Summer Marketing Camp, and I opened the final session by speaking about Dr. BJ Fogg’s Behavior Model. (Dr. Fogg is […]
From the Succeed Speaking newsletter: As a speaker, you’ve undoubtedly seen lots of speakers speak. Some of them make you say “Wow!” Some of them don’t. When you think about the “wow!” speakers, what is the one quality that comes to mind? In one word, what is it that makes […]