Have you checked out our 10 Second Tips yet? We’ve put together about 15 snippets of advice for presenters and speakers - and they’re all really short… around the 10 second mark.

Obviously in ten seconds we’re not going to...

Your phone just pinged and you checked the news alert. You may be up-to-the-minute, but are you well-informed?

The question is prompted by some research done this month in the UK, into how people have been keeping ‘informed’ about the...

Stories are all about shifts. Shifts from loser to victor, from oppressed to liberated, from lost to found, from unloved to loved.

That’s why stories are such effective tools for communicating a vision of change, for persuading people to...

If, as speakers and presenters, our only source of inspiration came from politicians, our spirits would be plumbing the depths. It’s easy to think that public discourse these days is dominated by bare-faced liars, cheats and dissemblers. Any...

If you really want to make your messages memorable, turn your words into images.

If you’re delivering a speech or presentation, it’s probably not the mass of your words that will convince an audience to march to your drum. More likely,...

A dear friend once sent me a birthday surprise…. Post-It notes. Not a box of Post-It notes but one solitary package of Post-It notes. I was surprised at this unusual gift… but it all made sense when I read what was written on the...

Keep your language simple if you want to make a quick and strong connection with your readers and listeners.

Two Nobel-prize winning authors once got in an argument over words.

William Faulkner accused Ernest Hemingway of dumbing-down his writing....

If you are wondering how you can be more conversational in your writing, here’s a tip. Think of someone you care about, and write to them. If you’ve attended any of our workshops, read our books or seen our video tips, you’ll be...

"I never ever thought I could stand up in front of over 700 people and speak. I was just like so many of my clients. Afraid of speaking in public."

"I was afraid my ideas weren’t good enough. Afraid of looking stupid. Afraid the...

Anxiety and public speaking seem to go hand-in-hand. Dealing with nerves, overcoming anxiety, is a big worry for a lot of my clients, says Halina St James, the creator of the Presentations Masterclass online course.

Halina talks about...

Don't be in too big a hurry to start writing that next speech or presentation. Remember that great quote by Abraham Lincoln:

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

In this short video tip,...

How much do you celebrate your creativity? How often do you thank it for being a part of your life and part of your speaking life? And what's holding you back from tapping in to your creativity - all the time? I want to share some tips I picked up...