For one moment, imagine you’ve been assigned to present your team’s quarterly earnings to the executives. And leading up to the big day, you rehearse and prepare. You sign into the conference software ...

"The beginning is the most important part of the work." —Plato When we speak, we have about 60 seconds to capture our audience's attention, establish credibility, orient them to our topic, and ...

Public speaking can reduce grown men to quivering wrecks. Public speakers can also reduce their listeners to quivering wrecks of tedium and despair. There is little worse than listening to some ...

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Bruce Kirchoff is a botanist and storyteller at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in North Carolina, USA. His new book is Presenting Science Concisely. Scientific presentations are too ...

It takes an audience about 15 seconds (at most) to decide whether your presentation is worth their attention. Fritter away those fifteen seconds and your audience will either mentally check out or ...

Seventy percent of employed Americans who give presentations agree that presentation skills are critical to their success at work, according to a new Prezi survey. My first reaction? The other 30% don ...

What is it that makes TED speakers so damn persuasive? Perhaps it’s because they follow these public speaking tips or follow and learn from these public speaking stars. One thing they have in common ...