Journal Walker

People who get paid well to speak all share one of two traits: either they’re famous, or they own “The Skills”. To be able to move people who don’t know you as a celebrity of some sort, you must know how to keep your audience focused on you and your message, and how to keep [...]

An Inconvenient Speaker
We have made the claim many times that Bill Clinton is the Master of the Pause. In fact, we have said that it is exactly this mastery that causes more people in polls to name the former president as the greatest living public speaker hands down.
If you doubt Bill Clinton’s ability to embrace [...]

Early in the movie, The Fugitive, Officer Gerard catches up with Dr. Kimball near the outlet of a high dam. Gerard had been chasing Kimball not as a suspect in a crime (the murder of Kimball’s wife), but as fugitive from justice. With seemingly no where to go, and Gerard’s gun trained on him, Kimball [...]

Perhaps the most difficult thing for speaker to learn is knowing when and where to stop speaking.
When you pause, you establish the pace from the beginning of your talk. You let the audience know that the information is going to be coming at them at a pace that they can handle. You let them know [...]

Organizing Your Presentation
Before organizing your presentation keep reminding yourself that Less is More. Also consider that most presentations have far too many concepts, and the concepts far too many details..
You should be able to put the gist of your presentation into one sentence or “headline”. What would the headline of your speech be? Think about [...]