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Get It Done: Thinking On Your Feet And Building A Speech Real Quick

Mar 8, 2010 8:01pm

If I asked you to give a speech, how much time would you need to get ready to give the speech (including writing it)? Could you do it if I gave you half as much time? How about if I gave you 5 minutes? We don’t always control the...

AccComm Life Just Got Better For iPhone/Andriod/BB Users

Mar 6, 2010 7:32am

Loyal Readers, It has been brought to my attention that the AccComm blog’s appearance on touch-based smart phones was, shall we say, poor at best. I think that I may have found a way to solve this problem. I’ve installed some new software that should change the AccComm into an...

Counterstrike: How To Deal With Hecklers

Mar 1, 2010 8:01pm

Fighting Back Nothing makes me more angry than when someone is rude enough to interrupt me when I’m giving a speech. I mean come on, I’ve worked hard to prepare to give this speech and here I am dealing with all of the nerves, logistics, etc. that a speaker needs to...

Inside The Mind Of A Heckler

Feb 22, 2010 8:01pm

It’s All About Control If you could wish for just one thing before you give your next speech in public, what would it be? Sure we’d all like to be able to talk like Tony Robbins, move a crowd like Zig Ziglar, or even have a powerful story to tell like...

How To Rig A Speech To Get The Outcome You Want Every Time

Feb 15, 2010 8:01pm

You can’t always do it all by yourself. If you want to make a lasting impression on your audience, then sometimes you just gotta bring in some help to pull it off. Speakers who are ready to move up to the next level in their speaking often come to me...

What Is Your Body Telling Your Audience?

Feb 8, 2010 8:01pm

What You Know About Body Language Is All Wrong Did you know that when you are delivering a speech, there is always another conversation going on? No, I’m not talking about your rude audience (although they may be talking also), instead I’m talking about your body – it’s having its own...

The Hassle Of Hecklers

Feb 1, 2010 8:01pm

Just What Is A Heckler Anyway? Just imagine your next presentation. You’ve studied your audience, researched your topic, created a speech, and practiced, practiced, practiced. You take the stage and start to smoothly deliver your speech. Just a few minutes into your speech, you become aware of someone, gasp, talking. We’re...

What’s More Important: What You Say Or Who Is Saying It?

Jan 25, 2010 8:01pm

So here’s a question for you to ponder: what is more important – the words that you say or how you say them? This is one of the classic questions that gets asked about public speaking. Could you pick up a fantastically written speech and deliver it in a way...

You CAN Learn To Speak Like President Obama

Jan 18, 2010 8:01pm

Who do you think is the greatest communicator of all time? For most of us, we’d pick someone who has lived in the last 100 years because that’s pretty much all that we know. We’ve had some great ones in this time period: Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, etc. However,...

It’s Amazing What A Speaker Can Learn By Watching YouTube

Jan 11, 2010 8:01pm

Just how does one become a better public speaker? I mean let’s be serious here, you do want to get better, don’t you? Pretty much any book that you read on the subject or class that you attend in order to build up your skills will tell you the same...