When you deliver a speech or presentation, everyone knows the first thing you say matters. But in truth? The last thing you say matters even more. Think about how you ended a recent speech. Did you leave the audience feeling satisfied? Attracted to your Big Idea? Ready to act on what you had to […]
When you’re preparing an important speech or keynote presentation, do you tend to default to one of these four opening lines? You begin with a long line of thank-you’s to people we may or may not know. You tell a joke you found online the night before. You share the process you used to prepare […]
Worried whether your speech has the power to connect with listeners from very different backgrounds and levels of experience? Jump-start your thinking with these seven steps based on a Cicero Speechwriting Award-winning keynote that resonated with 250 men and women from age 18 to 80. When Barbara Hayde — former president of The Entrepreneurs […]
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