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Being a Secretary of an autonomous body, I have to present the annual receipts and expenditure statement and the administration report in front of the

Hi Susan, Just writing to say how helpful Speaking-Out-Loud is to my family as we have stutterers amongst us. Teaching them confidence in speaking is

Too late for presentation skill training. You have to present tomorrow morning. That's ten hours away but you're already there, living out the fear. You feel sick. You're flip-flopping between wanting to call to cancel and gritting it through.....

Here's a set of impromptu speech topics themed around books with extremely odd titles. (Yes, the titles are real. Google 'odd book titles' and all will be revealed!) I used them at my Toastmaster's Club recently...

Here's a fail-safe tip! Use it and you'll have the desired result - nobody listening or caring to a word you say. The tip is - include EVERYTHING. Do not discriminate or select a few important points of interest. Give your audience the lot...

In many families, grandparents are a somewhat abstract concept; there are pictures of them around the house, you might get a birthday card in the mail,

One of commonest ways of breaking the ice in a new group is to have each member give a brief self introduction speech. Usually the leader will start and around the group you go, one by one. What do you say? What will interest people...

You will have sat through introduction speeches that made you yawn. They were probably cobbled together at the last minute and although not intended to detract from the guest speaker, they didn't exactly boost or welcome them either. To avoid the boring introduction speech trap read on...

Have you been told you don't have enough vocal variety in your voice? Or even more bluntly, that you are boring to listen to? Reading aloud is an answer that's hard to go passed. It will teach you so much about using your voice effectively. And the best part? Reading aloud is so much FUN...

Here's a song fragment. I can almost guarantee you'll be singing the remainder of it before you've completed reading it. 'We all live in a ... ...'* And here's another that's almost universal: ' Happy birthday .....

You're standing in front of the audience. You've prepared your speech well. You've made sure its relevant, that it flows well and is neither too short or too long. Now that you are delivering the speech something you hadn't planned for is happening. They're not listening. They're bored...

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Video of the famous American speech 'I have a Dream' by Martin Luther King