Memorizing Vs. Notes in Public Speaking

Interesting point about perfect vs. approachable.

Managing Time in Public Speaking

Fantastic advice.

Pauses in a Public Speech

Simple example of how three different pauses can have different effects.

Voice in Public Speaking

Voice is important. But no need to be a drama queen or king. Be yourself. But you must work to be interesting not boring. Yes, this can be a major challenge as some people just seem born with a great sense of facial animation and excitement. Still, even a calm and reserve individual can become an outstanding public speaker with just minor adjustments to voice energy and modulation.

Openers in Public Speaking

Energy is important. Capturing attention in the first 20 seconds is critical. Even a room full of CPAs can fall asleep if a fellow CPA explaining the micro details of FASB 157 changes has no energy.

How to Close a Public Speech

Lots of talented people in the world like this young man to learn from. Naturally every event and profession may call for a different approach. But the advice given here is timeless and universal. Just be sure to incorporate this advice into your own personality.

Memorable Public Speech - Tips

This young man gives excellent advice with specific examples

Presentation Master of the Digital Age

Steve Jobs was never a geek wizard like his co-founder partner The Woz. Steve was always the visionary who knew what the world needed before the world knew. He most certainly was an over demanding micro manager who expected nothing less than perfection. The same was true of the founder of McDonalds and Nike. Name me one great corporate leader or manager who build a business from scratch? But this is not a section on management style. This is the business presentation training section.

Steve jobs has a long history of being the inspirational leader of Apple. No doubt he is the master of the digital age presentations that can span the global and build bridges between generations of digital users.

Below is Steve, introducing the iPod. Listen to how he delivers the business case for iPod. Notice how he uses the big screen presentation. It augments his presentation with powerful visualization aids but Steve never uses slides as note cards to read. He does have a bad habit of pacing and removing his eye focus from the audience to much. But hay, this is Steve Jobs.



College and Professional public speaking training is always worth the time. But you can get free training simply by listening to powerful communicators and analyzing what made the presentation powerful to you. Below listen to Steve Jobs in 1983 provide inspiration to developers,workers and the news media.

How Not To Make A PowerPoint Presentation

This guy is fantastic. This should be required PowerPoint training.

Presentations to Venture Capitalist

Let me share with you this video from VC Guy Kawasaki who wrote The Art of The Start.

Guy came up with his 10-20-30 Presentation Rule (below) to help young people pitch their ideas to VCs. This 10-20-30 rule is also a great general rule of thumb for any presentation ( natural details and style should vary with your profession and audience).

Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of nine books including Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA