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Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review #88
Six Minutes weekend reviews bring the best public speaking articles to you. This review features topics including: new speaking and communication books; inspiring your audience with a negative...
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Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review #89
Six Minutes weekend reviews bring the best public speaking articles to you. This larger-than-usual new year’s edition review features topics including: best-selling speaking books; recap of the 12...
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7 Habits for Highly Effective Speakers
I first read Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People seven years ago, at a time when I was in a low-confidence slump. I’m so glad that I read it! The book is filled with insights which...
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Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review #92
Six Minutes weekend reviews bring the best public speaking articles to you. This review features topics including: engaging your audience; using analogies; building charisma; developing vocal...
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Book Review: Resonate (Nancy Duarte)
Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences is the second book from presentation superhero Nancy Duarte. It is also the second book of hers which I strongly recommend you read —...
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Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review #94
Six Minutes weekend reviews bring the best public speaking articles to you. This review features topics including: Q&A tips; new speaking books; leadership stories; convention speech reviews;...
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Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review #95
Six Minutes weekend reviews bring the best public speaking articles to you. This review features topics including: using quotations; storytelling; message sharpening; weasel words; Q&A...
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Book Review: The Naked Presenter (Garr Reynolds)
The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides is the latest in a series of best-selling presentation books by Garr Reynolds (of Presentation Zen fame). While his...
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Top 35 Presentation Books: Expert Ratings
Hundreds of presentation books are published each year. Some are bad. Some are good. And some are outstanding! We want to help you find the outstanding books — books which truly help you build your...
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Book Review: Telling Ain’t Training (Stolovitch, Keeps)
Telling Ain’t Training is an outstanding book for trainers and educators on how to develop effective training. Published by the American Society for Training & Development, this is the best book...
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Book Review: Writing Tools (Roy Peter Clark)
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark will help you communicate better, whether writing speeches, reports, handouts, or articles.As I breezed through Writing...
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Book Review: Presentation Patterns (Neal Ford, Matthew McCullough, Nathaniel...
Presentation Patterns: Techniques for Crafting Better Presentations uses an innovative format to illuminate the elements shared by strong presentations and the habits shared by strong presenters.The...
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Book Review – Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History (William Safire)
Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History (edited by William Safire) will provide you with hours of speechwriting inspiration.Every serious speaker should own a speech anthology, and Lend Me Your...
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Speech Analysis: Gettysburg Address – Abraham Lincoln (Flashback Friday #7)
On Fridays, we dip into the article archive and emerge with one of the most memorable articles. We’ll dust it off, shine a light on it, and consider it from a new perspective. At the request of Six...
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Average Speakers Suck. Don’t be Average. (Flashback Friday #10)
On Fridays, we dip into the article archive and emerge with one of the most memorable articles. We’ll dust it off, shine a light on it, and consider it from a new perspective. This week, we also...
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Speech Analysis: Steve Jobs (Flashback Friday #13)
On Fridays, we dip into the article archive and emerge with one of the most memorable articles. We’ll dust it off, shine a light on it, and consider it from a new perspective. This week, we also...
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7 Habits for Highly Effective Speakers (Flashback Friday #16)
On Fridays, we dip into the article archive and emerge with one of the most memorable articles. We’ll dust it off, shine a light on it, and consider it from a new perspective. This week, we also...
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How Many Slides Should You Have? How Many Slides Do You Need? (Flashback...
On Fridays, we dip into the Six Minutes article archive in search of one of the most memorable articles. We’ll dust it off, shine a light on it, and consider it from a new perspective. This week, we...
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Speech Transitions: Magical Words and Phrases (Flashback Friday #27)
On Fridays, we dip into the Six Minutes article archive in search of one of the most memorable articles. We’ll dust it off, shine a light on it, and consider it from a new perspective. This week, we...
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Techniques to Open and Close Your Speech (Flashback Friday #32)
On Fridays, we dip into the Six Minutes article archive in search of the most memorable articles. We’ll dust them off, shine a light on them, and consider them from a new perspective. This week, we...
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