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How to Improve Your Presentation Skills: 11 Practical Tips

Improving your presentation skills requires persistence—and lots of practice. However, it's a valuable skill that will pay off in your life and career.

Common Speeches

How to Master the Art of the Impromptu Speech: 13 Practical Tips

Giving a great impromptu speech is an art. These 14 tips will help you create and deliver an engaging impromptu speech to any audience.

Common Speeches

4 Tips to Give a Perfect Special Occasion Speech (With Examples)

Learn how to deliver a perfect special occasion speech, even if you don't have experience speaking in public. Try these 4 tips to help.

Writing

10 Powerful Literary Devices To Improve Your Writing (And Speaking)

Want to level up your writing and speaking? Here are 10 literary devices to use in your next speech or book.

Leadership

How to Get A Leadership Certification (And Why You Should Consider It)

Learn how to take your career to the next level through leadership courses and certifications to improve your leadership skills.

Personal Development

How to Understand Body Language and Improve Your Communication

If you're looking to improve your communication with others, then understanding body language is a great place to start. Here are some practical tips.

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Find Your Message and Audience

Molly Fletcher's Tips For Building a Speaking Business

"What is that one thing that only you can really speak to in a way that is authentic to you and then put a stake in the ground and go there?"

Find Your Message and Audience

10 Years of Speaking Summed Up in 3 Tips from Matt Matkovich & Phil Januszewski

"And we said that it would be kind of cool to have a message to remind people that you don't have to necessarily go through the deepest valleys or the highest mountains to truly evaluate and appreciate your life."

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3 Ways to Use Geographical Prospecting to Get More Paid Speaking Gigs from Erick Rheam

"Just because you land a gig, it doesn't stop there. How can you parlay that into more gigs?"

Podcasting

3 Things You Should Know About Starting a Podcast from John Ball

"Podcasts are a slow burn, so you really do have to manage your expectations and know that there are so many good reasons for doing it."

Speaking Tips

3 Speaking Tips You've Probably Never Heard Before from Matt Abrahams

"The single most precious commodity we have in the world today, in my mind, is attention."

Speaking Tips

3 Things No One Tells You About Being a Speaker

“I was all about relationship versus just my presentation."

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