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How to Use Hand Gestures During A Speech

How to Use Hand Gestures During A Speech

No one is born a skilled speaker, and not everyone born is meant to be good at public speaking. The skills that forge talented speakers are learned, like hand positions and gestures. What does this mean for you? It means that everyone has the chance to develop these...

3 Rhetorical Devices In Speeches: Level Up Your Next Speech

3 Rhetorical Devices In Speeches: Level Up Your Next Speech

Using rhetorical devices in speeches is a skill that engages your audience and takes your public speaking to new heights. You can use specific rhetorical strategies to form an atmosphere for your audience to lean into. The more you use a choice of word or phrase to...

14 Fast Ways For How to Calm Down Before a Presentation

14 Fast Ways For How to Calm Down Before a Presentation

Are pre-presentation jitters making you feel frazzled? Does the thought of giving a speech in front of an audience make you anxious? If you’re like the majority of the population, the answer is probably yes. In fact, public speaking is one of the #1 fears of most...

How to Prepare for a Speech in 5 Simple Steps

How to Prepare for a Speech in 5 Simple Steps

Want to know how to prepare for a speech?  First, you need to understand that the ONE thing most successful speeches have in common is this: The best speeches seem effortless. That is, most impactful speeches are often those that seem like they weren’t prepared...

Coaching for Speakers: Worth it or a Waste of Time?

Coaching for Speakers: Worth it or a Waste of Time?

Do you need coaching for speakers? Is it necessary for you? These are the wrong questions to be asking. Let me pose this question for you instead: is there any skill, ability, craft, or pursuit in which someone reaches great levels by themselves? I'm not talking about...

5 Voice Exercises for Speakers on Stage & Camera (+ BONUS Tips)

5 Voice Exercises for Speakers on Stage & Camera (+ BONUS Tips)

Imagine your voice as a powerful instrument, capable of commanding the attention of a large audience. When it comes to speaking on stage, on camera, or in any other setting that requires you to be in front of an audience, these voice exercises for speakers are...

How to Become a Speechwriter: 7 Degree-Less Steps

How to Become a Speechwriter: 7 Degree-Less Steps

Some of the most impactful moments of history and even movies, can be linked back to a speech given. The ones that give the listener goosebumps, that they still contemplate and discuss and reference years and years later. It may make some of you stop and decide to...

Is Toastmasters Worth It? 5 Types of People It Benefits

Is Toastmasters Worth It? 5 Types of People It Benefits

Being in the world of public speaking—or trying to get there—means you’ve probably come across something called Toastmasters, and are now wondering is Toastmasters worth it? Toastmasters is a nonprofit that hosts gatherings around the world where people can speak,...

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