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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’s almost impossible to be yourself in front of 200 faceless people when you are a nervous wreck. Yet we get this advice a lot, don’t we? If I recall, I did rant about it in a spoof video here.However recently, I decided to give this advice a 2nd chance. It happened during my judging ...
Can you believe it? This blog has survived for yet another year! I once read somewhere that 4500 blogs are created everyday and almost 80% of them never lived through first year. That’s why I think it is absolutely legitimate to kick a BIG FUSS for being around for 730 days! Judging from the number ...
This is the second time I am reading Craig’s article and I strongly recommend you to invest 5 minutes of your time to read it as well. Why you may ask. Because you are about to uncover one of the secrets of world-class speakers. By the way, he is 1999 World Champion of Public Speaking.I ...
I just got back from a half day judging of the NFL-IDEA qualifier held in Anglo-Chinese Junior College. NFL (National Forensic League) and IDEA (International Debate Education Association) are responsible for organizing the US speech tournament, and this year, they have invited Singapore to be part of this prestigious competition. And I am glad to ...
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 ...
We just completed a four week speech coaching program with Millennia Institute. As part of the finale, we organized a speech competition among themselves, idol style. Couple of insightful pointers that were brought up by the judges which deserved to be studied here. I promise to be brief. (grins)1. A speech unites, not divides.One of ...
The last post was a fairly long one, so I shall keep this one bite-size. Under 300 words if I can. One of the problems that speakers have is this - “I have done all the necessary research, but I still feel like I am not prepared. What should I do?”Here’s a list of three ...
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) ...
“I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.”If you want your presentation to be memorable even after 90 days, I strongly encourage you to INVOLVE YOUR AUDIENCE…. through DOING. Couple of ideas for you to try out.1. After teaching a concept, get your audience to split into groups. In their groups, ...
I first got an inkling of why some speakers are paid an eye-popping sum of money from an interview with Tom Antion. (He claimed in the interview that he can easily pocket US $245,000 for one weekend training. No kidding!) For your information, Tom is one of the better known speakers in States who was ...
It has been a crazy month for us (me and the other four speech coaches - Doris, Danny, Gary and Sabrina!) as we travel around Singapore working with adrenalin pumping kids (or monkeys as some teachers fondly call them by). Our first stop was Yuan Ching Secondary School who have the most adorable teens. Check ...
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 ...
Q & A sessions aren’t exactly very popular among speakers. As one of the professional speakers, Barry Gibbons, said “My experience tells me that these sessions are high-risk, low-reward interludes for everybody involved” He is right. In fact, I know of a lot of professional speakers who will talk the organizers out of having one. ...
Hello! It has been a while since I blogged on The Public Speaking Blog. My excuse this time - Chinese New Year! It’s a week long of spring cleaning, shopping for clothes, decorating the house, baking new year goodies and more. And then today is the eve of Chinese New Year where we just had ...
Hello! It has been a while since I blogged on The Public Speaking Blog. My excuse this time - Chinese New Year! It’s a week long of spring cleaning, shopping for clothes, decorating the house, baking new year goodies and more. And then today is the eve of Chinese New Year where we just had ...
It was really awesome to be on live national TV and to be sitting so close to Suzanne and Dominic whom I have been watching from my TV set for the past one year. The highlight of the morning has to THIS! (scroll down to see the photo) I was grinning away like a thirteen ...
I do now, and I want to share their secret with you because this could effectively turn the table around and made you as good - if not better - than them.Here goes.Top speakers and leaders write daily. Some of them write on their moleskin journal book which they carry with them everywhere they go. ...
Just got back from a homecoming party organized by the NUS Overseas College. As usual, there were a lot of presentations being made by the returning batches and I could not help but to evaluate them. Yes, it’s an occupational hazard… forgive me.This was a 10 mins presentation where the speaker shares about what his ...
After 3 years of working with entrepreneurs and executives on their business presentations and being on the receiving end of nearly 10,000 speeches and presentations, it doesn’t really take a genius to spot the bad habits of speakers. However, I recently discover that if you spend time just working on overcoming your bad habits, you ...
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