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After one week plus of dry spell, it is time to turn this blog up a few notches. And I shall start off by sharing with you a video taken by my friend Bo from Massachusetts, USA. Possibly one of the funniest table topic speech ever! For the newly initiated, table topic is a speech ...
A couple of days ago, I raved about having a female winner for the International Speech Contest held by Toastmasters International. This competition is akin to the Olympics of public speaking. Anyhow, one of the readers (Simon from UK) commented that “a Toastmasters competition is not the best way to measure skills as a public ...
… there are some HR companies that will shuffle all the resumes for the week and then throw the first 50 in the trash can because they do not want to hire unlucky people?I shared this interesting quip with my students at Raffles Junior College the other day and that got their attention immediately. As ...
This is a guest post written by a new online friend of mine, Perrine Oh. He found The Public Speaking Blog via The FAQ Book on Public Speaking and later initiated a really thoughtful email. To cut the long story short, I read 10 entries he wrote in one seating. My conclusion - this guy ...
It has been two months since the launch of my first book The FAQ Book on Public Speaking but it felt like a year, thanks to the flurry of PR events organized by my team. Till date, we have been featured on most major media publications - Business Times, Lianhe Zaobao, Team NS magazine (Mar) ...
It has been a while since I was moved to tears by a presentation. Today was one such evening. The speaker is Chatri Trisiripisal, a self-made multi-millionaire who has undergone tremendous adversity before enjoying his current status. (Achievements at a glance: chairman of a $400m global investment firm, Harvard MBA, assistant instructor of a martial ...
TO ALL MOTHERS WHO ARE READING THIS: HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!! *HUGZ*If you have not wish your mum a happy mothers’ day, please do so right now. No no, this entry can wait. Go on.. wish her. Make sure you give her a big hug and tell her how much you love her. In fact, you ...
“It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much you can take and keep moving forward!” - Rocky BalboaI have never watched a single Rocky movie even though my room mate and dad are huge fans. However after Monday’s presentation by this phenomenal ...
Photo credits to Slimmer JimmerLet’s set things straight. There is absolutely NO way you can learn how to swim or cook from just reading a book or attending a seminar unless you are a genius. Yes? And there’s a reason why there are still a gazillion number of people who are not rich in spite ...
Photo credits to sharumpeThis week, I’m featuring another article from a dear fellow blogger and funny man, John KindeBut before you go on to reading his article, let me spoil it for you by telling you why I liked this one.When we think of humor in speeches or presentations, we think of SAYING somehing funny. ...
Yes, I am going to be on the April’s issue of Her World magazine as their “public speaking guru”. Was a teeny weeny bit disappointed because I thought the editor wanted me to be on their list of 50 eligible bachelors (coughs) where female readers can oogle at. Oh well… at least I can now ...
… And if you want to speak at their level (think Anthony Robbins, Darren La Croix or Obama Barrack), I suggest you start asking yourself these questions on a DAILY BASIS as well. Won’t take you long yet the effects will blow you away. 1. What am I doing today to improve my public speaking/presentation/speaking ...
Photo credits to brenno64When there’s a storm, the grass bends over and lives to see another day. The oak tree that stands upright and unyielding will eventually be uprooted.The same goes …
A post that I wrote earlier this month on “250 Things You Wish You Know That Will Guarantee Your Speaking Success” has created quite a buzz on the blogsphere. It started with Andrew Dlugin at Six Minutes who wrote a fairly long post challenging many points that I have raised. And then yesterday, Life Hacker ...
Remember Pareto’s Principle? Where 80% of the results comes from 20% of your effort. Or 80% of your revenue generated by 20% of your customers. This principle works here in public speaking as well. If you are tight for time, and you want to know what you can do minimally to cause maximum results, this ...
Late last year, I started the Friday special that went down in flames after a month. 3 reasons why. Laziness, laziness, laziness. Not necessarily in that order. And then early this year, fellow blogger Andrew Dlugan did us a big favor by giving a low down on >86 public speaking blogs. And instead of visiting ...
No kidding.The book was mentioned on Business Week two weeks ago (16th Nov), along with me (ahem) as one of the top 25 young entrepreneurs in Asia.I am flattered of course, thankful as well. But more flattered than anything else because Business Week is one of the most prestigious and highly regarded magazine in the ...
It just occurs to me that the top five articles for this week all revolves around powerpoint presentations. Who knows! But then again, this is not surprising since according to Alexei Kapterev (the guy behind “Death by Powerpoint“), there are 300 million powerpoint users in the world right now, with a whooping 30 million powerpoint ...
Today we’re going to talk about something a little more unusual!No, we won’t be talking about crop circles. However, we are going to talk about a phenomenon that is just as rar …
The average attention span of a literate adult is 20 minutes. Good, you think to yourself. 20 minutes is plenty of time.But how many speeches have you sat through where you fell asleep within the first two minutes? And how afraid are you that people are going to do the same for yours?It seems terribly ...
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